Apple Aperture Getting Started - Manual (Page 17)

Chapter 1 An Overview of Aperture 17
What Are Folders?
In Aperture, folders are used to help organize projects and albums. For example, you
can import images into projects and then organize the projects into folders based on
the year, such as 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. And if you shoot multiple projects for the
same client, you can create a folder that contains separate projects for that client.
Note: Folders only contain albums, projects, and other folders.
What Is the Library?
The Aperture Library tracks every project, album, master file, and version no matter
whether the images are stored in the Aperture Library file or in other hard disk
locations. Aperture automatically creates a Library file in your Pictures folder the first
time you open Aperture. You can choose to import images into your Library or have
Aperture access them from other locations on different hard disks. The Library tracks all
your images and the information recorded about them, as well as information about
where backup files are stored. You can access images in the Library by clicking Library
at the top of the Projects panel.
Projects that you transfer from other Aperture systems to your Aperture system are also
added to the Library. And when you back up your digital master files to your vaults on
external FireWire drives, those actions are tracked by the Aperture Library as well.
You can change the location of the Library file to a different folder or a different disk.
You can create multiple Library files. For more information about working with multiple
Library files, see the Aperture User Manual in the Aperture Help menu.
These folders organize
images based on what
year they were shot.