Aperture 1.5: Use Smart Albums To See Which Referenced Masters Are Available
2007-01-07
One problem with keeping referenced masters on removable media such as DVDs or Firewire drives is knowing what is actually on them. Mounting the disk or drive brings the masters on line and the badges change from this:
to this:
But it is difficult to see just these images among the thousands and register which ones are on the drive that just mounted.
An email from Johan Elzenga suggested an easy way to see just the referenced images that are on the mounted drive: use a pair of smart albums. This first one finds all offline images. It is set up to work only on images for my 2006-05 project:
The File status setting is found in the action (cog) menu on the top right.
Its sibling shows all masters that are referenced and online. Since managed masters are always online, the Match setting at the top is set to All and two conditions are needed:
This makes the album only show masters that are online and referenced and in the 2006-05 project. And with either of these I can also use additional filtering, searching, and sorting in the browser window where the images are displayed to narrow my choice further.
The neat thing about these smart albums is that they will change their contents as disks are mounted and removed. Put in a DVD, watch the album. Eject it and put an another. Repeat.
to this:
But it is difficult to see just these images among the thousands and register which ones are on the drive that just mounted.
An email from Johan Elzenga suggested an easy way to see just the referenced images that are on the mounted drive: use a pair of smart albums. This first one finds all offline images. It is set up to work only on images for my 2006-05 project:
The File status setting is found in the action (cog) menu on the top right.
Its sibling shows all masters that are referenced and online. Since managed masters are always online, the Match setting at the top is set to All and two conditions are needed:
This makes the album only show masters that are online and referenced and in the 2006-05 project. And with either of these I can also use additional filtering, searching, and sorting in the browser window where the images are displayed to narrow my choice further.
The neat thing about these smart albums is that they will change their contents as disks are mounted and removed. Put in a DVD, watch the album. Eject it and put an another. Repeat.
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