I have over 35,000 photos and growing. I have always imported photos off whatever camera device I was using (directly off camera to the folders) and placed them in a folder structure on my server i.e. Events-Holidays-Xmas 2010 etc. I used several diff photo apps but with Aperture latest release I decided to use it exclusively (still use LightRoom for web).

I did an import to Aperture of all my pics in their folders but kept the actual files in place ( did this in case I wanted to make a change later) and it all seems to work great - after a long import but my Aperture projects match up to the folders.

My issue as that as I have been now using Aperture to perform the actual import (and subsequently the photostream process) I accidentally let the actual master pictures go into the aperture library and not my folder structure. I don't like have the last 600 says pics living in the aperture library and the rest referenced to other folder file structure. I want to move or export these new masters to the folders I've always used and then have all new imports do the same. I think I'm asking this correctly and it seems I could just export but I want to retain the structure and meta data.

Phl

Thanks for the help.