Create and show favorite items, Work with the aperture trash, 56 work with the aperture trash – Apple Aperture 3.5 User Manual

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Chapter 3

Work with projects and the library

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Move an item in the Library inspector

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Select an item in the Library inspector, and drag it to a new location.

The black box indicates

where the item will

be placed.

A black bar indicates where the item will be placed.

Move multiple items in the Library inspector
Do one of the following:

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Shift-click adjacent items, and drag them to a new location.

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Command-click nonadjacent items, and drag them to a new location.

Automatically arrange items in the Library inspector

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To group similar items together: Control-click in the Library inspector, and choose Keep Arranged
By > Kind from the shortcut menu.

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To sort items alphabetically: Control-click in the Library inspector, and choose Keep Arranged By >
Name from the shortcut menu.

Create and show favorite items

If you have certain projects, folders, or albums that you work on most often or that you work on
at the same time, you can make them favorites to quickly view them all simultaneously.

Make a project, a folder, or an album a favorite

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In the Library inspector, select a project, a folder, or an album, and choose Add to Favorites from
the Library Action pop-up menu

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View a favorite project, folder, or album

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In the Library inspector, choose Favorite Items from the search field pop-up menu at the
top-left corner.
Only the items in the library that have been chosen as favorites are shown. All other items in the
Library inspector are removed from view.

Remove a project, a folder, or an album as a favorite

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In the Library inspector, select a project, a folder, or an album, and choose Remove From
Favorites from the Library Action pop-up menu

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View recently selected items in the Library inspector

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In the Library inspector, choose Recent Items from the search field pop-up menu at the
top-left corner.

View all items in the Library inspector again

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In the Library inspector, choose All Items from the search field pop-up menu.

Work with the Aperture Trash

All items deleted in Aperture, including projects, albums, folders, versions, and originals, are
placed in the Aperture Trash in the Library inspector. You can retrieve any item from the Trash
until you empty it.

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