Aperture - Different Folder Types


There is an important distinction between the two diferent types of folders that you can create in your Aperture library structure.
There are brown folders which appear within a Project and are for organising albums but have the disadvantage that when you select the brown folder you cannot see any of the images from the albums within the project (see 1 below).

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1. Brown Folders - but the three thumbnails in the abumn canot be seen

A better approach if you want to be able to see all of the thumbnails from a collection of projects is to create a folder at the Library top level. This will create a blue folder (see 2 below) which will allows all of the images from the projects it contains to be visible.


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2. Blue Folder - the thumbnails from the three projects are all visible


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