Adding another external hard drive for Masters. A3

My masters are on a 500 GB LaCie "Rugged" which is piggy backed to a 1 TB LaCie used for Time Machine backup. Is it true that one doesn't need to access the masters because most work is done on versions within the library? In which case if the external hard drive is full can I just replace it with another hard drive? Help would be much appreciated. Cheers, jp.

Every Image has a Master.
The Master is a file.
The Image is in your Library.
The Library attaches to the Image a pointer to the Master.
The pointer is in your Library.
The Master can be anywhere that Aperture can access.
The Master should be on a drive attached directly to your computer. (Apple has warned in the past of problems with Masters on NAS.)
When Aperture can access a Master, it is "on-line".
When Aperture can not access a Master, it is"off-line".
(When Aperture can access the volume to which the pointer points, but does not find your Master, it is "missing".)
When an Image's Master is off-line, you cannot add Adjustments or export either the Master or a Version (you can, confusingly, export the Preview).
This is all clever, and very useful in practice. A rule-of-thumb: if you need to make adjustments to an Image, or export that Image, keep that Image's Master handy. Conversely, if you are done making adjustments to an Image and do not need to be able to quickly export an Image, you do not need to keep that Image's Master handy.
Theoretically, every Master could be on its own drive. This is impracticable, but possible. In your case, with your 500 GB drive full, you should winnow your Masters at some point, but you should also either:
. purchase another 500 GB drive, or
. purchase a 1 TB drive and move all your Masters to it (using Aperture's "File→Relocate Masters" commandwith both drives mounted).
The second is the simpler approach. All your Masters are on one drive, so:
. you always know where a Master is, and
. backing up your Masters involves less administration than having Masters on multiple drives.
Aperture will take advantage of whatever speed boost you give it, but in general you get much much more bang-for-the-buck speeding up, roughly in this order, throughput from:
. RAM
. CPU
. GPU
. Aperture LIbrary volume
. System volume
than you get speeding up the volume on which your Image's Masters are stored.
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Adding another External Hard Drive

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LaCie is a name on the outside of the box.
What's inside is what counts. LaCie may use differing drives inside their named enclosures.
As long as the drive has the same specifications or better it will be fine. Everyone has their favorites.
Try a search on this forum for external drives. there's been plenty of talk about preferences.
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Hello,
i have an external hard drive which i store all my drum samples and sound library on and files are contantly changing, adding new sounds, deleting old ones etc ..
So my method of back up as of now is to just copy all the edited files and click and drag to the back up disk.
Now, my question is, how do i back up my external hard drive to another external hard drive using time machine ? I read somewhere that you can do this, i cant find the post however. It would be nice to automate the back up process rather than manually finding the files to copy over.
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The question you pose is conditional, in that you should have more than an exact
capacity replacement for a clone, if the drive you are going from (or one going to)
has insufficient free space and that has a bootable clone on the drive; any space
tied up in a partition for Time Machine backup, takes away from the running space
if you should need to run the computer from a clone on the external HDD's other
partition.... Better to have a good capacity of additional reserve unused free space.
Be sure any clone copy that you hope to use as a re-close, that each in turn is tested
after a clone operation. Also consider using each running system's Disk utility and
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drive that may have questionable artifacts or errors on it, should be reformatted. To
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be a good match. It could work, but you'd need a reasonable size partition or hard
disk drive for a system. Snow Leopard and all its associated applications, can do
OK in a 100GB HDD. (My computers have more storage capacity than is used; so
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make duplicates of works-in-progress, for each change in an open file; that adds up.
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2. create another volume to use for iPhoto, and if so, should the two volumes be of equal size?
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I think it is remembering backing up onto previous external hard drives, which I don't own anymore. How do I do a new full backup?
When I bought the new (used) iMac, I also bought an external hard drive for backups. It worked fine, but my husband stole it.
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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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I bought an external hard drive for backups to use with Time Machine, but however when I try to connect it with the other windows laptop it doesn't work ? intact it doesn't work on any other device except my MAC ?

I bought an external hard drive for backups to use with Time Machine, but however when I try to connect it with the other windows laptop it doesn't work ? intact it doesn't work on any other device except my MAC ?

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I am looking an external hard drive for my mac and I do see one in PC world that is compatible with time machine. I do not want it connected to time machine and wonder if I can use it without connecting.

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