[reemas]

this is a specific question on files and aperture:

I know iPhoto assigned everything on its own including folders for photos.
iView lets you create your own organization of files and folders.

How does Aperture do it? Does it import your photos and manage on its own, or is it similiar to iView?

[Eug Wanker]

It loads everything into one package. The files are apparently discrete from one another within it, but what you normally see in the Finder is just one great big file.

P.S. There is already another Aperture thread.

[GENERAL_SMILEY]

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

It loads everything into one package. The files are apparently discrete from one another within it, but what you normally see in the Finder is just one great big file.

P.S. There is already another Aperture thread.

The file handling of Aperture is very interesting, and probably does deserve it's own thread.

Fundamentally you cannot access images outside of Aperture - at least as far as I can see (presumably you can dig within the package). This definitely puts it worlds apart from iView, Cumulus, or Portfolio. There is no way to deal with images you have imported into Aperture, except by exporting them from within the App.

Don't know how spotlight deals with it - can you type in Aperture keywords and get images (great feature), like in iPhoto? At the moment I have both running concurrently, can't tell for definite - I'm guessing no.

Somebody tell me I'm wrong.

[Thinine]

You can manually open the Aperture library package and access the files from there.

[Cadaver]

Originally Posted by Thinine

You can manually open the Aperture library package and access the files from there.

But not really wise, since all you'll get is the original image (the "master"). All the edits are stored as an XML (or something similar) file thats parsed into changes by the Aperture application itself.