Mac Aperture users, need help.

[Angelo]

Just got back from my trip to Alaska and Canada. I had my MacPro laptop with me so I was able to back-up and edit (in Aperture) many of my photos.

Now I need to transfer the images from my laptop to my home MacPro and I'm having a bit of difficulty.

What I have done is make my home computer the TARGET computer via firewire and transfer the Project Folders (pick folders up from laptop Aperture program and dump them into the MacPro Hard Drive). This I've accomplished, but when I try to Load them into the MacPro Aperture they are not accepted.

I hate to have to re-edit the images again and would like to find a way to just transfer everything over (3200 RAW images) to my MacPro.

Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Angelo
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[ibleave]

Try the articles on this place:

http://www.bagelturf.com/aparticles/index.html

and here:

http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/aperture/

You may have to search a bit but I've usually found what I needed in one of them.

Good Luck,
Scott

[ddaquaria]

Here is what I do...
1. Go to your laptop, open aperture, then select the project that you wish to move
2. Under the file menu, select export...export project (I also usually check consolidate images)
3. Once it has finished exporting the project, put the computer in target disk mode
4. go to your mac pro and connect to the laptop that is in target disk mode
5. on the mac pro in the file menu select import project and find the correct location on the laptop ... select open
6. Then you are done...

[Angelo]

Thanks Donald, That sounds easy enough - I'll try that tonight.
Scott, thanks for the URL articles. I'll check them out later this evening.

[Angelo]

Donald, It worked, and thanks for the help.
Question: The photos are dropped into the master folder. Can it not create a project folder also as they're imported?

[ddaquaria]

If I remember correctly, when you to the import, you select that you wish to put it into a project at that point. Or you select a project that currently exist or the master folder. I just did this last weekend, and can't remember right now what I saw...let me get back to you on this one...

[Angelo]

Thanks Donald,
I don't remember any prompts saying to put into project folder, but I may have overlooked it.