Apple ceasing Aperture support notice
Jun 17, 2019 07:29:06 #
petego4it
Loc: NY
This is an fyi & status report. After many years of warning, Apple in the next main OS arriving fall will completely cease support of Aperture and is providing due notice. While I stopped putting new photos there quite a while ago, I am one who still has many old photos organized and processed by Aperture. So I called Apple. They said yes, true & I had several options; they would someway support two: 1) if I stopped upgrading my OS to continue to use Aperture; or 2) help me migrate such photos to their currently recommended software, called simply Photos. Not any externally created software such as Lightroom.
Since I expect to continue to update my system, or have other support needs where inevitably they want the latest OS, I really felt there was only one option, #2. So Apple set about helping me, assigning a helpful rep. who it appears plans to see this thru as he is available. But he has another job as well, so I have to fit in.
Turns out I had ~ten such libraries scattered about. First task, put them all in one place, done. Second task, get them converted into format Photos can use to import. 8 of the 10 libraries converted no problem. 2 however crashed and resisted such effort, currently being investigated, including by far the largest in mb such library. This recalls Aperture had two options: a)being reference software like Lightroom, the later on course I usually took; or b)embedding the photos internally where each shot now will need to be extracted to be made useful again.
It initially appears the two crashing libraries are (of course) of this latter type, where you can't just point new software to where the photos now are to have them newly i.d.'d and imported. I'm awaiting Apple guidance (there are only a few specialists in this & tho they make notes, they like to stay on the case); I plan to post again as we progress, but as of now this looks to be a several month project for anyone who extensively used Aperture's features, as I did, with remote drives or embedded photos.
FYI, I'd say I had roughly 200,000 photos controlled by Aperture which, tho complicated, I still consider the best, most flexible and capable software there has been for the task.
Since I expect to continue to update my system, or have other support needs where inevitably they want the latest OS, I really felt there was only one option, #2. So Apple set about helping me, assigning a helpful rep. who it appears plans to see this thru as he is available. But he has another job as well, so I have to fit in.
Turns out I had ~ten such libraries scattered about. First task, put them all in one place, done. Second task, get them converted into format Photos can use to import. 8 of the 10 libraries converted no problem. 2 however crashed and resisted such effort, currently being investigated, including by far the largest in mb such library. This recalls Aperture had two options: a)being reference software like Lightroom, the later on course I usually took; or b)embedding the photos internally where each shot now will need to be extracted to be made useful again.
It initially appears the two crashing libraries are (of course) of this latter type, where you can't just point new software to where the photos now are to have them newly i.d.'d and imported. I'm awaiting Apple guidance (there are only a few specialists in this & tho they make notes, they like to stay on the case); I plan to post again as we progress, but as of now this looks to be a several month project for anyone who extensively used Aperture's features, as I did, with remote drives or embedded photos.
FYI, I'd say I had roughly 200,000 photos controlled by Aperture which, tho complicated, I still consider the best, most flexible and capable software there has been for the task.
Jun 17, 2019 07:33:20 #
While it's no surprise that Apple wouldn't give you options wherein their products are not involved, you might want to check out a utility program called Aperture Exporter:
https://apertureexporter.com/
This came out some years back when Apple first announced their intent to drop Aperture support; it is not a seamlessly easy process to use Exporter but it does offer a route to move your library over to the Lightroom environment.
https://apertureexporter.com/
This came out some years back when Apple first announced their intent to drop Aperture support; it is not a seamlessly easy process to use Exporter but it does offer a route to move your library over to the Lightroom environment.
Jun 17, 2019 10:32:02 #
petego4it wrote:
This is an fyi & status report. After many years of warning, Apple in the next main OS arriving fall will completely cease support of Aperture and is providing due notice. While I stopped putting
FYI, I'd say I had roughly 200,000 photos controlled by Aperture which, tho complicated, I still consider the best, most flexible and capable software there has been for the task.
FYI, I'd say I had roughly 200,000 photos controlled by Aperture which, tho complicated, I still consider the best, most flexible and capable software there has been for the task.
Adobe has this information on transferring from Aperture to Lightroom Classic.
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/import-iphoto.html
Jun 19, 2019 07:17:10 #
Jun 24, 2019 07:33:28 #
petego4it
Loc: NY
further update. well, Apple support person disappeared. Started over with a new one. Challenge is worse because my Apple Thunderbolt2 connection is not reliable and also over the years I've had to get more and more capacity so data base programs like Aperture or Lightroom have major trouble finding the shots. So, while I can still see the thumbnails, finding the actual shots to reorganize ain't easy!
Jun 24, 2019 07:51:35 #
petego4it
Loc: NY
thanks. looked appealing enough but when I tried to download or buy, seems like they're gone....:-((
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