How to Move from iPhoto To Aperture 3.1.1 – Corruption and Troubleshooting!

Apple Aperture 3.1.1 is the latest release of Apple Aperture photo editing and management software form Mac OS X based computers which is now available in the Mac App Store in an unbelievable low price $79.99. It was released on January 6, 2011. It was earlier released in the December 9, 2010 with the updates that had improved the overall stability and performance problems and also included specific fixes that address compatibility with the iLife Media Browser, improve reliability when upgrading existing Aperture libraries, address problems that comes with MobileMe, Facebook and Flickr.

Aperture 3.1.1 (latest version of Aperture) is very similar to iPhoto and users that have earlier used iPhoto can easily master on Aperture. There are plenty of reasons that drive iPhoto users towards Aperture:

• More Selective Retouching in Aperture
• Better Photo Looks and Effects
• Advanced Slideshows
• Multiple versions of a photo that take minimal hard drive space
• Including Places and Faces
• Several tools to manage big libraries
• Capacity to Merge, Sync and Split several libraries
• Feature to Customize and create Books
• Gallery Quality Printing
• Capacity to configure as many external drives as you want to store photos

File Formats supported by Aperture 3.1.1

• RAW - .arw, .cr2, .crw, .mos, .raf, .nef, .raw, .tif, .fff, . 3fr, .oly, . dng
• Still Image Formats – JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, PDF and PSD

In these file formats, most of them were supported by iPhoto and therefore all iPhoto users were also familiar with these formats. With the advantage of over 200 new features in Aperture 3.1.1, there are great numbers of users ready to move from iPhoto to Aperture.

How to Move iPhoto Library from iPhoto to Aperture 3.1.1?

Follow these steps:

1. After fresh installing the Aperture 3, open Aperture 3 with a new empty library
2. Now Choose iPhoto Library from the import menu to import your entire iPhoto Library
3. After this you need to choose “in their current location” to store the files. With this option, Aperture won’t duplicate your photos in the Aperture library. Click on the Import button
4. Aperture 3.1.1 create a new folder called iPhoto Library and a subfolder called Events which is used to contain your projects
5. Now if everything is fine then you have two choices; 1st is to delete the Aperture Library and keep your images in iPhoto or 2nd you can choose “Consolidate Masters for Library” to move your masters and your work from iPhoto to Aperture. If you have chosen this option then you can delete iPhoto Library once consolidation is completed.

It’s fine but no one knows when problem arises as if while doing these processes your iPhoto library get corrupted then you should prepare for it and to prepare you should create iPhoto Library backup. If accident occurred and you have not taken any backups then you need to use third party iPhoto Library Recovery Software.