iphoto to aperture import

Hello,

I'm currently trying to migrate to aperture from iphoto. When importing the complete iphoto library into aperture, is the whole iphoto library simply copied over to the aperture library? What I'm trying to avoid is making a duplicate copy of the iphoto library to save hard drive space.

Thanks.

jonahrei wrote in post #9612945
Hello,

I'm currently trying to migrate to aperture from iphoto. When importing the complete iphoto library into aperture, is the whole iphoto library simply copied over to the aperture library? What I'm trying to avoid is making a duplicate copy of the iphoto library to save hard drive space.

Thanks.

You can select whether it copies over or just references the images.

If you reference, it will still make its own thumbnail data, however.

Furthermore, depending on what version of iPhoto you have and which version you used to import each photo, that individual photo may be missing certain data. For example, I use iPhoto 09, and every photo that I imported after installing carried over location data, but photos that I imported on previous versions didn't carry over the locations data (even though I uses iPhoto09 to add it).

Also, please inform me if you are getting crashes during importing. I could not import my large iPhoto library (who has been upgraded each time since iPhoto 5), without switching to 32-bit.

ok, i'm gonna give it a whirl and i'll let you know what happens.