All into Aperture.....

I have a mixed up image library between iPhoto and Aperture. iPhoto says it's library is 156GB and Aperture says it library is 12GB. Aperture says that most of it images are referenced from iPhoto.
How can I now merger both into 1 Aperture Vault so all the originals are in the Aperture Vault? I then need to transfer the vault to an external drive to free up space on my MacBook Pro.
Cheers

Just a point,  Aperture Vaults do not do merges.
So I suspect you meant Library. (so you can create a Vault and it can do what it does best. <gg>)
Sizzling Badger is right on.  Consolidate will do it nicely Presuming of course you already have links to the iphoto library.
A quick read of page 209 in the Aperture 3 manual should have you in the right direction.
Once it's all done, then you can create a Vault.
Good luck
DJ

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