I've never understood this about files...

[Andrew83Ga]

I have the same pictures in Aperture...and iPhoto...and also in the "All Images"...and in the HD in the "Users' Pictures" folder...am I wasting a ton of HD space by having multiple copies of these (thousands) of photos? Or are they just conveniently accessible from these many places, but only saved[?] (I'm not great with computers) once on the computer? When I first bought it, I saved them in the "Users' Pictures" folder thinking that would be the most permanent place to keep them, and as I opened new programs, they were saved to the Aperture and iPhoto libraries...

While I'm here, should I ax iPhoto now that I have Aperture? Or is there some benefit to keeping it?

Thanks as always!

-Andrew

 

[spinnerlys]

They are only once on your HDD, as Aperture has access to the iPhoto Library, which is stored in Macintosh HD / Users / You / Pictures / iPhotos.

The All Images short cut is a search result and not an actual place on your HDD.


Also have a look at the following links, as the information presented there might be helpful in your future endeavours into Mac OS X and could clear up initial confusion and may even prevent harm to your system or your files.

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/-text

http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/-videos

http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/-text

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343-keyboard-shortcuts

 

[davidwarren]

ok- aperture has access to the iphoto library, but if you import the iphoto library, doesn't aperture make a copy of the file and create the aperture library? Does that use twice the space?

 

[pdjudd]

ok- aperture has access to the iphoto library, but if you import the iphoto library, doesn't aperture make a copy of the file and create the aperture library? Does that use twice the space?

Aperture can do that - but only if you tell it to create a separate library.