john crossley wrote in post #18278160
You don't have to export anything from Aperture, and you don't have to create any folders on your desk top. All you have to do is open Lightroom click on IMPORT select the folder you want to import and then click on IMPORT again. It is that simple.
Well he might if he is using Aperture in Managed mode instead of Referenced mode. Because in managed mode there won't be any files in the file system for LR to import.
I thought that Apple had built a tool that allowed Aperture to convert itself to LR, so that you maintained most of the organisation work that you had already done. As well as dropping the files into the correct locations it also converts Apertures equivalent of Collections to LR collections, as well as all of the keywords etc being shifted too. If I had Aperture this would be my first choice option, so that I maintained the maximum amount of the work I had already put into Aperture. I would only try a fully manual system if I had tried it and it failed miserably.
If you have both a RAW file and a PSD/TIFF or JPEG of the same image you could be falling foul of the LR option that treats different file types with the same name and creation/exposure time as being the same image. Because then LR is only going to import the RAW file. Often when people shoot RAW+JPEG they only want to bring the RAW file into LR, not both.
Alan