Using Aperture libraries with iPhoto 9.3 and later
Starting with iPhoto 9.3 and Aperture 3.3, Apple has added the ability for Aperture and iPhoto to directly open each other's libraries, without having to import photos back and forth between them. iPhoto Library Manager provides limited support for working with Aperture 3.3 libraries if you have iPhoto 9.3 installed on your machine.
- You can add Aperture libraries to iPhoto Library Manager alongside your iPhoto libraries, either by using the "Add Library" button or by dragging an Aperture library into your library list.
- You can open Aperture libraries in iPhoto just like iPhoto libraries, by double clicking the library you want to open in your library list.
- iPhoto Library Manager does not provide any support for opening libraries directly in Aperture. For that, you will need to open Aperture and tell it what library you want to open.
- Note that any given library can't be open in both iPhoto and Aperture at once. If you try to do so, the second of the two applications that you try to open will display an error message.
- iPhoto Library Manager does not support copying albums/events to or from Aperture libraries, merging/rebuilding Aperture libraries, or importing photos directly into an Aperture library. The "Duplicate Library" command is supported though.
- Due to the way Aperture publishes information about the photo library, it is not possible for iPhoto Library Manager to determine the exact order that albums have been arranged within the library. This means that the order your albums are displayed in iPhoto Library Manager may not match what you see in Aperture.