Noob Help. Catalina and Aperture

[alberic61]

I'm that person.

I ran the OSX update after a security concern and that's how I found out that Catalina won't support Aperture and my decades of photos I have there.

I'm not a complete idiot, so have them all backed up on a WD Mybook, which also seems to be having a bunch of issues with Catalina and won't let me access anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated... except the WD help. That hurts even more.

 

[gwang73]

You can right-click the aperture photo library database file and choose "show contents" and all your photos will be in there, probably in multiple folders.
It's going to be a pain but you can move or copy all the original photos out of that database file and into a normal folder.
It's been a long time since I've done that but all your photos are in there in their original condition. I believe that database file is in your Pictures folder.

 

[allan.nyholm]

For Aperture there's this
Retroactive that allows iTunes, iPhoto and iTunes on macOS Catalina

Having only tried installing iTunes I'm not sure about Aperture.

And in Terminal you can write:

sudo mount -uw /

For allowing Finder write access to your whole drive - probably also WD MyBook. Relaunch Finder via the Dock or type in

sudo mount -uw / ; killall Finder

and that will relaunch Finder and allowing access to whole drives - I use for system folder write access. This code is for each login - and doesn't stick between reboots.

 

[alberic61]

Thanks for your help. I found them in finder (in pics, not in My Book) and am not sure the best way to proceed with filing them somewhere else. Putting them all in photo is going to wreck the filing as they'll all just show as imported now and I have thousands of photos spanning decades.

And in Terminal you can write:

sudo mount -uw /

I tried that in terminal (which is a thing I learned about 7 mins ago) and it is responding

mount_apfs: volume could not be mounted: Operation not permitted
mount: / failed with 77

It had asked me for a password and I failed that test. Should it be the same as the user one? Fun and games when my ex-husband set up the machine initially perhaps?

 

[Ritsuka]

Photos can import the Aperture library. Probably it will keep most of the metadata, it could be worth a try.

Noob Help. Catalina and Aperture

I'm that person. I ran the OSX update after a security concern and that's how I found out that Catalina won't support Aperture and my decades of photos I have there. I'm not a complete idiot, so have them all backed up on a WD Mybook, which also seems to be having a bunch of issues with...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[allan.nyholm]

Thanks for your help. I found them in finder (in pics, not in My Book) and am not sure the best way to proceed with filing them somewhere else. Putting them all in photo is going to wreck the filing as they'll all just show as imported now and I have thousands of photos spanning decades.

And in Terminal you can write:

sudo mount -uw /

I tried that in terminal (which is a thing I learned about 7 mins ago) and it is responding

mount_apfs: volume could not be mounted: Operation not permitted
mount: / failed with 77

It had asked me for a password and I failed that test. Should it be the same as the user one? Fun and games when my ex-husband set up the machine initially perhaps?

yes, the code is the one for the user.. also the same when you install when using installers like Microsoft Office for instance.
The code is invisible so you have to trust that you've typed that in correctly. Or just type it in a TextEdit document and cut out the text to the clipboard to the Terminal by pasting in like any document.
Also, right now I have some doubts about my suggestion to do this and if that really us the right approach without using more steps to access your MyBook 100% without errors.

There's much more security in macOS Catalina that really puts my patience to the test.

 

[Fishrrman]

I'd try "Retroactive" for now.
I haven't actually tried it for Aperture, but it works fine for iTunes (in Catalina).