Aperture Library Sizee

I have created a new Aperture library, containing about 225,000 photos. I imported all of the photos as reference files...leaving them in their current locations. Nonetheless, my Aperture library file is enormous, at 125 GB. Since I didn't copy the photos into the library, why is it so huge? Please help! Thanks.

if in terminal you navigate to the directory where your library is on you can run the command "du -h | more" and get a display of all the files/folders and their disk usage (du) in human readable form (-h) requiring input to change to next page (| more) ... btw | = shift+\ ... aka pipe ...
if you run without "| more" the results will fly by on the screen but it was sorta slow enough for me to get the jist of it with a 75K image library ... with a 225K library you may not want to use "| more" as you will be hitting the return key to advance to the next page of results a lot ...
at anytime you can hit control+c to cancel and return to the shell prompt ...

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