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I'm in the same situation with Aperture. It's not only a problem because of the issue you describe with losing the product of my prior work, but it's not clear
by skohan 7y ago
I'm in the same situation with Aperture. It's not only a problem because of the issue you describe with losing the product of my prior work, but it's not clear what the migration target would be. The most obvious alternative is Lightroom, but this would mean trading a tool I have been using happily for free for 7 years for a 20EUR/month subscription service I would have to maintain the rest of my digital life.
My current solution is just to keep a bootable Mojave volume around, but long term I don't know.
- mamp 7y agoTry Capture One. I’m happy after Aperture-> Lightroom -> Capture 1
- sneak 7y agoYou can always just pirate Lightroom (LR Classic, that is—the non-cloud-dependent one). It’s not particularly difficult, and sidesteps the subscription lock-in nicely.
- c256 7y agoThe article mentions that the author tried Lightroom, twice, in case the newer version was a better fit.
- benjymo 7y agoI don't use it often but on Linux I found https://www.darktable.org/ https://www.darktable.org/ great. They also have a Mac Version. Maybe something worth looking into.
- jwr 7y agoIncidentally, I am thinking about writing an Aperture export/migration tool. I want to at least preserve the album structures, ordering within albums, version grouping/selection and image metadata. I thought about doing this as a commercial project, but it's likely I'm the only one who cares (I have a large archive of historical photos organized using Aperture). One thing I've learned: from now on, I will organize my image archives using my own software. I am done with trusting any large company.