You can create custom folder name formats that you can quickly choose to select the folder structure you want. For example, you might have the exported files placed in subfolders identified by date.

You can specify a combination of name elements to create custom folder names.

You can also create a hierarchy of folders within folders. For example, you can specify that Aperture place your photos in a subfolder named Date, and within that folder you can create subfolders identified by the time the photo was taken.

1. Do one of the following:

   • Choose Aperture > Presets > Folder Naming.

   • In the Export dialog, choose Edit from the Subfolder Format pop-up menu.

   The Folder Naming dialog appears.

   

2. Click the Add button (+) to create a new folder name format, or select the preset folder name format you want to change.

3. Drag the name elements you want into the Format field in the order you want them.

4. Drag a slash between the elements where you want subfolders created.

5. Enter a custom name in the Custom Name field, if you wish.

   Note: The Custom Name field is dimmed unless “Custom Name” is one of the elements in the Format field.

6. Click OK.

Your new folder name format now appears in the Subfolder Format pop-up menu.

When using a counter in your folder name format, you can specify the starting number and the number of digits, from 1 to 6, that appear in the counter. When you use a folder name format with a counter, make sure to reset the initial starting number, if necessary. Otherwise, on the next export Aperture will continue numbering the folders containing the exported photos starting from the last number of the previous export.

• In the Folder Naming dialog, type 0 (zero) in the “Incrementing counter starting at” field.