Aperture Library Cleanout Tip
By David Fisher. Filed in photography |Tags: aperture, apple, cleanout, drive, library, optimize, shrink, space, Uncategorized
If you are like many digital photographers, you may shoot a rather excessively large number of photos compared to what you would have shot with film (keep in mind that Ansel Adams only generally took a dozen or so sheets of film with him on a camping/photography trip). If you’re shooting with a camera that is capable of it, you should be shooting RAW at all times. The only downside to this is that every image takes up a lot of space!
Basically you’ve got gigabytes full of awkward poses, poor exposures, or just boring and crappy photos that should never see the light of day. Aperture can save your hard drive space however!
You should take all photos that are absolute horror stories as an “X” in Aperture when sorting them out. You shouldn’t put anything rated as such unless you’re basically saying that you want to trash it later. Then, make a smart folder of all photos rated as “X or lower”. You can now select all of these and delete them. This will cut the size of many Aperture libraries in half. Then simply empty your trash and thats it! So simple, but I’ve seen a lot of Aperture users not doing this for some reason and running out of drive space quickly.