Year: 2015
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Post Mortem
The bulk of the migration is complete: the catalogue and meta data are moved, the tags are consolidated, and the events are merged. I now have a single view spanning from the late 1800’s to current. The oldest picture I have is from my great-great grandmother. I’m sure you can see the family resemblance. It…
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Clean up
My first post-migration (from Aperture to Lightroom) activity has been to clean up the tags. This included consolidating duplicates, restructuring, and other things. The duplication occurred for at least two reasons I can determine: [1] different naming conventions [2] changes in the tagging hierarchy. I don’t see either of these s being a failure of the migration tool,…
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Import Complete
The execution of the import process completed late yesterday after about 72 hours of processing. Now comes the clean up and alignment. A comparison of the counts looks good, although there are some minor discrepancies they are tolerable. Of the 48,795 photographs that were in the Aperture Library, 176 of them are not accounted for. However, none of…
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Picking up Pace
The Aperture to Lightroom migration has picked up the pace. Yesterday morning, after about 28 hours, progress sat at 17%. This morning after an interval of 24 hours, it was 75%. So what happened? I closely monitored progress of the migration and when the pace slowed I did a restart. After the restart at…
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Slow Going
The migration is taking longer than anticipated. After about 42 hours, it is 20% complete. That suggests 7 more days. Unfortunately the process locks out Lightroom, preventing any other use of the tool. While there is no evidence of resource constraints, even at peak “speed,” there is a noticeable slow down after a few hours of…