Aperture: Images in excess of 100,000 not displayed

Aperture's Browser will only display 100,000 images at a time, so those of you preparing to edit the next Olympics will need to create individual projects for "Track" and "Field." And actually, to maintain performance, you should limit yourself to 10,000 images per project or less.

If you've already put yourself in this situation and can't see all the images in a project, there's several easy ways out. First you might try this:

1. Create a new project for each 10,000 images that you imported.
2. Put the Browser into List view (View > List, or click the button).
3. Using the pop-up menu in the Browser, sort by Image Date or File Name, whichever you prefer.
4. Select images you want to move to the alternate project, and drag them there.

If you want more control, another easy way to achieve this effect would be to use either the Filter HUD for Smart Albums to create logical groupings of less than 100,000 images, then break them into smaller groups from there.

Note: Each version counts against the limit. This means for example, that if you import 100,000 originals and create 1,000 additional versions from them (and delete none), then you are 1,000 images over the limit.

Note that Aperture 1.1 or later will proactively warn you of the 100,000 image limit, when you hit it, and advise you to create a Smart Album.

This issue is resolved in Aperture 3.