After using Adobe's Aperture importer, you'll find all your Aperture projects have become Collection Sets in Lightroom, with a collection called 'Project Photos'.
Fair enough... but then when you sync them all to Lightroom Mobile, all the collections you see on your iPhone/iPad are called 'Project Photos'. Hardly helpful!
So, this script fixes it.
- Every collection called 'Project Photos' is renamed using its parent collection set
- Projects imported from Aperture that had no sub-albums are turned into a simple collection, rather than a collection set with one child collection.
Feel free to tweak the script to behave differently!
MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR CATALOG BEFORE RUNNING THIS SCRIPT
Create the Scripts folder, starting from your home directory, go to Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom and create the Scripts folder in there. i.e. the following terminal command
mkdir ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Scripts
Then copy or softlink fix-collections.lua into that folder.
If you already have Lightroom running, restart it, otherwise just start it. You should see a new scripts menu (has a funny symbol that looks a bit like an s, or a piece of paper), and in there you should see the fix-collections command.
The script does not ask for confirmation, and has no dry-run function... it will just do its thing. TAKE A BACKUP FIRST
How have you even imported from Aperture?!
There's an bonus script in this project - one to add the capture yyyy-mm to collection names. I'm hoping this is a stopgap because surely Adobe will add some more sorting options for Lightroom on iPhone/iPad soon???