Apple Aperture 3.5 - Manual (Page 67)

Chapter 3 Work with projects and the library 67
Duplicate a project structure
If you routinely use the same project structure populated with the same types of albums and
folders, you can duplicate the structure of an existing project and create a new, empty project
with the same arrangement of albums and folders. If the project you’re duplicating has Smart
Albums, the settings for those Smart Albums are duplicated as well. For more information about
Smart Albums, see
Collect photos in a new Smart Album on page 156.
Duplicate a project structure
1 In the Library inspector, select the project whose structure you want to copy.
2 Choose File > Duplicate Project Structure.
The project and all of its subordinate items, such as albums, folders, and Smart Albums, are
duplicated along with their names. However, the duplicated project contains no photos, audio
clips, or video clips.
3 Double-click the name of each duplicated item in the new project to give it a new name.
Double-click the item’s
name to rename it.
Work with referenced images
A referenced image is a photo whose original isn’t stored in the Aperture library. You create a
referenced image by specifying a location outside of the library when you import the image.
Aperture tracks the locations of referenced images and works with them in the same way as
with images in the library, except that referenced originals are not backed up when you back
up your library. You can identify referenced images in Aperture by turning on referenced image
badge overlays.
A referenced image is online if Aperture can access its original. Referenced images remain
online even if you rename them or move their originals to another location on the same hard
disk or volume. If you disconnect the disk that holds a referenced original, move the original to
the Finder Trash, or move the original to a different hard disk or volume, the referenced image
becomes offline (unavailable). When an original is offline, Aperture draws the thumbnail image
first, and then the preview if it exists. Because the preview is high quality, you can zoom and
even use the Loupe. However, you can’t make adjustments until you either reconnect the disk
that holds the original or use Aperture to reconnect to the original in its new location.
You can copy, move, delete, and search for referenced images in your Aperture projects using the
same procedures you use for other Aperture versions and originals. When you copy a version of
a referenced image in Aperture, a new version is created and tracked in the Aperture library. No
new files are recorded on the hard disk in the location of the referenced image’s original. When
you move a referenced image between projects on your Aperture system, the referenced original
remains in its original location on your hard disk.
If you decide that it would be more convenient to store referenced originals in the Aperture
library (for example, so that you can back them up to vaults), you can have Aperture move or
copy the files to the library.
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