Aperture hangs upon quitting

It doesn't happen all of the time, but often enough to make me want to post an inquiry here. I can't pinpoint a reason, but upon quitting, Aperture starts to go through its saving and updating preview process, but never completes it. The progress bar makes it a portion of the way and everything appears to be running still, but it never finishes. I've even let the process run over night, but in the moring it is still in the same spot. I have to manually force the application to quit. It tells me that all of my edits will be lost, but upon opening the application the next time, that doesn't seem to be the case. Still, having to force quit is a bit unnerving, especially when I have to do it consistently. Is there any data on this problem? What could be causing this?

Speaking of a working backup, I do have all of my images stored and kept as referenced images. I also have the masters backed up in multiple locations. I also have a vault of my library stored on an external disk and I have that vault backed up in multiple locations. I am assuming that should an issue occur, I could just use the vault to get my library back? I've always been a little confused as to how the vault works. Let's say I completely lost my Aperture Library. Could I just open the vault to restore the library to full working condition? My confusion lies in the fact that I have a referenced library, so I am assuming that the vault only stores information about the masters, and not the masters themselves. If I were to lose my library or something were to happen, would I have to first load all of my masters again and then open the vault? Would I load the masters, reference them and then open the vault, or would I just open the vault and it would take care of everything?
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anpacker wrote:
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http://www.victorfoto.com/etutorialsvf/eosx_vf/e_osx_t_rdp_vf/e_osx_trdpvf.html
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