Best way to move from a bunch of Aperture Libraries to LR, finally

[VictoriaJZ]

Lightroom Version Number

11.4

Operating System

1. macOS 10.14 Mojave
2. macOS 12 Monterey

I have been using Aperture [Mac OS] since the beginning but obviously need to move on = and have LR now. I've been reviewing my many Aplibraries [I tended to create separate ones for topics rather than have everything inside one huge one] and deleting duplicates and will probably also get rid of -0-1-2 stars at least. But I already did one conversion of a library to LR to sort of see how it goes - and am not sure the simple conversion is a good way to go. Should I just put all the Aplibraries into one or several collected Aplibraries and then convert them? Or is there a better way to handle this? I can/will save the original Aplibraries but what's the best way to move the best images into LR? I do have Avalanche to use to do the conversion and it worked well so far - Any other suggestions or hints as to the best way to do this?

 

[Johan Elzenga]

If you have Avalanche, then just use that on each library. There is no reason to first consolidate them.

 

[VictoriaJZ]

If you have Avalanche, then just use that on each library. There is no reason to first consolidate them.

Thank. you! One less hassle == I assume tho that at least cleaning out duplicate images makes sense = fortunately the computer can just do it and I don't need to monitor it, but it's one step that = I suppose = is worth it since I can more easily do that inside Aperture than mess around in LR. Appreciate the help.