I imported like 110.000 pictures in Fotos and god it's slowing down, coming down to nearly a halt. I mean, I understand why it's done: once you have all your pictures in the suppliers cloud it's nearly impossible to switch to another supplier.Īpple Foto's has slim folders or albums but it is also very, very, very, very slow even with half the pictures. And not to forget: I like my pictures on MY harddrive, not in the cloud. I am looking for a DAM witch can handle my amount of pictures and has slim folders of any kind. So that's not a really feasible option as well. But I believe that loading a CO catalog even when smaller will take quite some time (times 5), and I don't know how fast CO is with it's search-function. If CO would be able to load the catalog fast that would be a help already.
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I would have to make a choice how to split the AA catalog, and even then I always would have troubles to find pictures. I tried to import pictures into Apple's Fotos and than exporting them as JPEG in the highest quality, but that is quite cumbersome to do and not exactly good for the picture quality.Īs you mentioned, I could split it into 5 or so catalogs, but the nice thing about having all of them in 1 catalog is that I can search ALL pictures for a common denominator. I do have an older machine just for running Aperture, but not being able to import HIEC is the only reason I am looking for another application. The main problem with Aperture is that is does not support HIEC-file format. But even after 4 years I found nothing comparable to AA, apparently this kind of stuff is not lucrative enough. I think CO is a very good RAW converter – and a very poor DAM. Or don't you have a machine Aperture is running on anymore?
Now your problem: Maybe you need to split the massive 250.000 images catalog of Aperture first in Aperture and make smaller batches? And later import these 4 or 5 CO catalogs into a single one? No, I have no idea how to automatically do this. On the 2020 iMac with 32 GB RAM and 10.15.7 I'm still facing crashes after importing and (batch)-editing digitalized negatives. Are you sure you want to go on this adventure? Next question: CO likes to crash after the RAM runs out. CO can do other things better than AA ever could, but as a DAM ist sucks big time. I don't want to become reminded each time I'm starting CO of what we lost with Aperture. For all of that and many more reasons I keep my old 27" iMac from 2010 to be able to run Aperture. CO can't do so essential things like jumping to the end or start of an album name by using ⌘+▶︎ or ◀︎? My browser does this better. Selecting a couple of albums to move them into another project? Next laugh, only one by one possible. Duplicating intelligent folders to edit their conditions? Next laugh. And while I can click on a folder of the catalog and get an overview of the pictures in it, CO's group are not capable do so. Intelligent folders made a big part of my catalog - they are becoming "normal" albums, pointless to me. CO has such a disappointing DAM part that I could not see the point in wasting more time and energy in this.
Once I also attempted to import an Aperture catalog with maybe 1/5 of the quantity of yours.
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