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OfflineI am trying to do what seems like the obvious kind of export - but as far as I can see it is not supported by Aperture, hence buying ApertureAssistant, but now I can't see how to do it there either.
I maintain my master photos in Aperture but want to share the results on my local network accessible to others at home.
I want to use the structure of projects, folders and albums that I have in Aperture, hence needing to do an export from there.
Exporting everything in the right structure is fine, easily achievable in ApertureAssistant (although not in Aperture).
But I can't choose the latest version - I can only choose to export all versions. I tried using the Master filename as the name for the versions exported, but it (un)helpfully put a (1) etc on the end when there were multiple versions. So I get all my edits, but I only need the latest.
How can I export only the latest version?
Your best bet is to use a custom tag or an unused IPTC tag to keep track of which images have been exported, then add a decision node in Aperture Assistant which checks for the tag being empty.
So it would be something like:
1. Source Node with Tree Structure.
2. Decision Node, is the tag empty?
3. Action Node>Export Version.
4. Action Node>Set Metadata, maybe even using something like '{CurrYYYY}{CurrMM}{CurrDD}_{CurrThh}{CurrTmm}{CurrTss}' so that the tag is filled with the date and time when the image was exported.
I hope to add an extra feature to the export function where you can choose what to do if the destination file already exists, but I can't make any guarantees for when this would happen, and in any case you'd run into problems if any of the Version Names are identical.
Thanks,
Ian