About Vault and a simple copy of Aperture Library

I have a Vault in an external HD and my Aperture Library in another external HD. I have observed when I open Aperture and forgot to turn the external HD on that I have first to turn it on and re-write the route in Preferences.
My question is: If I have a copy of my Library instead a Vault and in case of losing the information that I have in the main HD I simply changed the route selecting the second HD. Is it the same?
Regards.
Guillermo

I just bought a new MBP and I'm looking for some clarification about the library/vault when using more than one Mac with aperture. I don't always want to be stuck carrying an external HD around with my laptop. Will the following thought process work....I backup my library on my mac pro to a vault on an external HD then transfer that vault to my new MBP. If I'm on the road and make changes to the library on the MBP I would need to sync with the vault on the external HD and then sync the external HD with the library on my Mac Pro desktop to maintain identical libraries, correct? I was thinking that I would need to do this to maintain multiple copies of my library but also to be able to do final editing with my desktop and cinema display. I guess I could also just connect my cinema display to my MBP and use the 17" & cinema displays for final editing.
Thanks for any comments/suggestions.
MBP 17" Mac OS X (10.4.10)

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Hi,
So I was using Aperture 1.5.5 on Tiger 10.4.10 with bench of folders and pictures in it. I backup my Aperture Library file, and then reinstalled my whole system with Leopard, then reinstalled Aperture from original CD, then did the upgrade to 1.5.6 and then put back my Aperture Library from my backup.
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Vincèn,
have you double-checked that Aperture uses the correct library (in Preferences) ?
Did you try pulling the Aperture prefs over from your backup also ?
And did you try a rebuild (depressing Cmd and Option during Aperture startup until the message comes up, choose Rebuild now, get a Coffee).
Note:
Even if all your images are referenced it's a good idea to use a Vault, as it backs up the structure (not the referenced images, of course).
Also ranting doesn't help getting answers. Asking a straight question is best, OK ?
I, like you, did a clean install and everything works just fine (everything, nor just Aperture).

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Copying my Aperture Library to Keyword on Vacation?

On upcoming vacation I would like to work on keywording my (large for me) Aperture libary.
Library is 66 Gig (referenced library) plus all the actual images (465 Gig).
Is the following the best strategy?
1) Copy the entire referenced libray PLUS all the images from my Desktop onto a portable drive for vacation.
2) Do keywording on the portable.
3) When I return, merge the portable copy with the new keywording onto the permanent MacPro?
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Leonie,
Thanks for the quick response.
I have never used Time Machine. I use SuperDuper! to back up my internal HD. I back up my internal HD every time I import a new batch of photos from one of my Nikon dslrs. This happens frequently--at least once a week on average.
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I have an Aperture library that I have developed to manage a lot of old family photos. One batch is from my side of the family and the other, from my wife's. I would like to be able to share the entire library, already organized into projects, albums, etc., so that she can have the same thing on her MB Air. My photos are referenced and held on an external drive.
Can I give her the same library and structure, already constructed, by copying apertureLibrary.aplibrary and putting it on her MB air? If she needs the full images, could I just attach the external HD which contains the referencd images?
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Can I give her the same library and structure, already constructed, by copying apertureLibrary.aplibrary and putting it on her MB air? If she needs the full images, could I just attach the external HD which contains the referencd images?
It will work, if you are using the same version of Aperture and MacOS X on both your macs. Or, at least, her Aperture version needs to be the newer one. What versions ar you using on your Macs?
Set the "Ignore ownership on this volume" flag on the external drive with the original image files - the procedure is described here: iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users
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To repair permissions on a photo librara see this manual page on repairing and rebuilding:
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Ok, I'm using actionscript 2.0, and I am trying to make a scrolling image gallery. I have a movie clip with three layers. the first contains a movie clip used as a scroll bar. The second is a mask used to hide the overflow content, and the third contains movie clip thumbnails. when I click one of the thumbnails, it loads a symbol containing a larger version of the picture over top of the thumbnails on the same layer. My problem is, the large image is added at the very top of the movie clip, even when it is scrolled out of sight. I want it to appear in sight, so the user doesn't have to scroll all the way back up to the top to see it. This is annoying and confusing. Is there a way to do this?
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Thanks for your reply. I'll try to explain it better. I have a long, vertically scrolling movie clip. This movie clip contains lots of thumbnails. When I click a thumbnail, the full sized image is loaded from the library and displayed within the same movie clip. when I click the full size movie clip, it disappears again, and I can click another thumbnail to display another full size image. So I'm not just adding more and more stuff to the gallery if that's what you were thinking. I'm just clicking thumbnails to display the full size image so I can look at it, closing it, and moving on.
But the full sized image is fixed at the very top of the scrolling movie clip, so if I click a thumbnail at the very bottom, I have to scroll all the way back up to the top to see the full size image. I just want the full size image to appear on screen no matter how far down I have scrolled to click a thumbnail.
I made my basic gallery useing this tutorial:
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if you want to take a look at that, to get an idea of what I'm talking about.
Now I'm just trying to add some scrolling functionality, which wasn't included, but I don't really understand actionscript well enough to do this easily on my own.
Sorry for the long reply. I hope this is clearer.

Difference between vault and backing up aperture library

i have been trying to understand the difference between simply backing up in aperture via the vault and just backiing up the aperture library file.
my workflow involves backing up the original raw files to DVD and also backing the raw files to an external drive. i keep only raw files that are in progress on my mac book pro.
when i complete a project, i just copy the aperture library file from my mac book pro over to my external drive and also back up the aperture library file to a dvd, too. that way i have the raw files backed up, and the aperture library files backed up.
is this sufficient enough or do i need to set up a vault, too?
mac book pro 1.83ghz core duo Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2GB RAM

I have written about the various options for backing up Aperture images at length:
http://maczealots.com/articles/aperture-backup/

Help!- aperture library disappeared after copy

I'm screwed...After a long holiday with my macbook and my aperture (3.0) library (90GB) on an external drive I finally get home and decide to copy the library onto my iMac (pictured folder). I always keep a copy in my external drive as a backup and for macbook use (internal drive too small).
Well, I connect the drive to my iMac, and try replacing the aperture library. Takes very long thinking, so I decide to delete the old aperture library on my iMac and just do a simple copy. Everything seems fine, it starts and says it has 50 minutes to go...so I leave for dinner. An hour later I come back and not only had the aperture library not been copied (only 700 mb or so of it), but the source isn't there either! i.e. it disappeared from my external drive!!
I though it might be a database problem, but mac os x says I have 90 GB more free space on my external drive, so the aperture library seems to have been deleted!
HELP HELP HELP....all of my photography is in there and I cannot believe I have lost everything just by trying to copy it!
thanks for any suggestions!

Alaninnorway wrote:
Yes, I must agree. I have exactly the same problem. Come on Apple - do not invite us to 30 day free trial and give us this hassle for the weekend.
Any help appreciated.
The 30 day free trial cannot convert an Aperture 2 library.
Using the trial you can can only import into a new Aperture 3 library, and should not have any of these conversion issues.
We converted 6 workstations this weekend, specifically did not convert the imaging as that can be done in the future on an as-needed basis.
All of the libraries reside on disks that are no more than 40% full, for performance reasons.
The first library we converted was 500GB and at about 2.5 hours it froze at about 58%. I trashed the partial conversion and started over with a clean copy. This time, in Aperture 2 I did a Library rebuild before I converted. After this the conversion ran perfectly, in about 4 hours.
I ended up with a new file called Aperture Library, and another file called Aperture Library_Original. I found that this is the way the conversion is designed if you have the diskspace for 2 full Libraries. If you do not, it will delete the original after the conversion.
At any rate before converting run a rebuild in Aperture 2, and then make a backup of that library. You will then have a very clean original should anything happen in the conversion.
I am happy to say we followed the rebuild and backup on the other 5 Libraries, ranging in size from 500GB to 1.2 TB, and all the other conversions went smoothly.
The key is have plenty of diskspace available, more than double the size of your library, and Aperture will leave an Aperture Library_Original which can still be opened in A2.
Sincerely,
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Copying Aperture Library takes forever

I 'm creating an off site backup for the first time as it's something I've been meaning to do for ages. Its not a fancy affair, just dragging and dropping the folders I want. I have numerous on site backups that are all in sync etc so this method should be fine.
Any way, when it came to copying my aperture library, which has almost 26000 reference images and is almost 32GB, things didn't go well. It was telling me that it was going to take 26 hours, and the time was rising, for it to copy. I have seen something similar with iPhoto but not nearly on the same scale.
What's causing this and how can I fix it? I could put a vault on the drive via aperture which doesn't take to long, but I'd really prefer to have the original library on the backup. I am currently trying to compress the folder, and although the size won't really change, it may(?) speed up as its copying an archive rather than the library.
Any ideas?
Regards

how old is the library? I experienced the same thing when copying my AP3 library to an external..it's a 48GB library with 70,000+ referenced files...estimated time did not move up to 6 hours like yours, but it did go up to 2, which is too long to copy 48GB via firewire 800...
I let it run, and total copy time ran about 30-40 minutes. There were patches where things got really slow, then other patches where they sped up again.
I would take a look at this thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2343039&tstart=0
specifically reply #10..as my question about long copy times and disk fragmentation was addressed there.

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