A new beta version can be found here.

This download is a fifteen day fully functional trial version. When the fifteen days are up, it will revert to demo mode and you will have to click on a dialog box every ten images. This means that you can continue to use it for small tasks.


Here's a selection of more than forty new features, bugfixes and cosmetic changes since version 1.0.55. See version history.txt in the download for the full list.

New Features:

• Action Node>Add to Album. You can now select an existing Album and choose to add Versions to it within a workflow. Aperture 2.1 or higher required.
• Version IDs in the Report window are now clickable links to reveal that Version in Aperture. Aperture 2.1 or higher required.
• Action Node>Find All Albums - Album IDs in the Report window are now clickable links to reveal that Album in Aperture. Aperture 2.1 or higher required.
• Automatic check for updates, choose from every launch, weekly or never.
• Other Tasks>Swap Library... will bring up a list of all Libraries on your computer and prompt you to choose one, relaunching Aperture with the new Library.

Speed Optimisations:

• Finding of duplicate Masters speeded up, searching 52,000 Masters to find 7,000 Versions from 3,300 Masters takes eleven seconds or less on a 2GHz MacBook Pro. Tagging them can still be slow.
• Formatting of reports speeded up.
• Retrieval of all Albums containing the Version is speeded up roughly 100-fold for Aperture 2.

Bugfixes:

• Setting the value of certain IPTC tags was failing, specifically ones where the IPTC tag name in the database contained '/' characters or extra words compared to the name displayed in Aperture.
• Assorted bugfixes for Action Node>Add to Album
• Additional check for the Master file added before exporting Versions or Masters. This gets around a bug where the online status of the Master file was sometimes reported wrongly in the Aperture database.
• Each time you run a workflow, Aperture Assistant now does a new check to see if Aperture is running. This prevents errors that could occur if you manually relaunched Aperture with a new Library without closing Aperture Assistant.
• Most Source Node errors no longer bring the run to a halt with the working area greyed out, but instead log the error and continue.
• The 'Reveal in Finder' checkbox would take effect even if there were no export actions taking place.
• The close button on the Workflow window was not correctly quitting the application.
• Multiple bugfixes for the Library browser window, including better handling of the built-in Smart Albums, disclosure arrows no longer jumping and arrow key navigation working reliably.
• Time taken was not being reported when searching for duplicate Masters.

Cosmetic Changes:

• Links which correctly link two Nodes now change to green.
• Added Workflow>Cancel Workflow menu item to go with the Cancel button below the progress indicator.
• Better formatting in the Report window, window style changed to fit the Workflow window, scrollbars now appear and disappear as needed.
• Workflow>Find Duplicate Masters has been moved to a new Other Tasks menu.
• File>Open Library has been moved to the Other Tasks menu and renamed Swap Library... with a shortcut of Command-L.
• the Report after finding dupes now specifies whether Aperture Assistant was searching by checksum or by file size.
• When exporting Versions or Masters, error messages now distinguish between offline Masters and Masters that cannot be found.