Aperture Library Volume

I am having a problem with my Aperture library volume showing full. My library is on an external drive (1TB) with over 500 gig available. Would someone be able to tell me why this keeps coming up....thanks

Dave,
what exactly are your import settings?
Look at the "Aperture Library " brick in the "Import Settings" panel: How is the "Store Files" drop down menu set - to "In the Aperture Library" or differently?
And are you actually importing into your Aperture library on your external drive, or have you accicentally opened a new library on the system volume? (This can easily happen, if your drive is accidentally dismounted, while Aperture is using the Library. Then it simply creates a new one).
To make sure you are using the correct library, lauch Aperture by double clicking the Library.

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Insufficient disk space on Aperture Library volume to import iphoto library

3 Importing iphoto library to Aperture questions:
(1) Finally switching to Aperture because too many photos to manage in iphoto. When importing iphoto library it gives me the message: Insufficient DIsk Space - "There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need an additional 83GB of free space."
The photos are all on an external drive which has 150GB free space. I also tried moving the aperture library to another hard drive which has lots of free space. I want the Aperture library to reside on the external drive so I can share it between my laptop and desktop.
I tried this at the apple store and it was going to work. I came home and it now says it needs 125GB free space. Is this a function of which computer you use to import the library? What can I do because I can't spend hours at the apple store if it may take that long to import all the photos from the library.
(2) Is there an optimum way to import a large library, rather than all at once?
(3)Used iphoto manager to create a project library from an iphoto library. Now have 2 good libraries to import, one with about 35k photos, the other with about 8k. The 8k will have some duplicates from the larger one. When I import that one I don't want to import duplicates, but do want to retain the organization and labeling of those duplicates in terms of which albums and events they are in. Is that possible?
Thanks!

Or use Aperture's built-in and suggested way to deal with the problem of a Library outgrowing your system drive: make many of your Image's Originals referenced rather than managed.
Aperture lets you store any Image's Original on any locally-mounted drive. Moving your Image's Originals from inside your Library (in which case they are "managed") to outside the Library (in which case they are "referenced") is easy -- as it moving them back.
The two main complications that arise from using Referenced Originals are:
- you must back up your Referenced Originals in addition to backing up your Library. Backing up your Library _does not_ back up your Referenced Originals
- you must not make any changes to your Referenced Originals with any program other than Aperture. _Do not_ use Finder to move, rename, etc.

Not enough free space on Aperture Library volume to import iPhoto library into Aperture?

I purchased Aperture 3 from the App Store after using the free trial version for a few weeks. I downloaded the program and do not have any images imorted into Aperture yet. I tried to import my iPhoto library using File>Import>iPhoto Library and received this message: There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need at least 10GB of free space. I have iPhoto 11 and 25,000 images on iPhoto. I did review the Aperture owners manual and did not find an answer to this.

Well obviously you don't have enough space to import an iPhoto Library that is more than 10 gigs.
But that's not importat right now.
You have the makings of a major problem and you need to address it now.
OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on.
Without this space your Mac will slow down as the OS hunts for space on the disk, files will be fragmented, also slowing things down, apps will crash and the risk of data corruption - that is damage to your files, photos, music - increases exponentially.
Your first priority is to make more space on that HD. Nothing else can be done until you do. Purchase an external HD and move your Photos and Music to it. Aperture, iPhoto an iTunes can run perfectly well with the Library on an external disk.
If you don't you will suffer data loss. I can't stress this enough.
Regards
TD

There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library Volume Question

When importing more images to Aperture I get this:
There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library Volume to import the selected items
Why is this? I am a big time newbee and I am trying to take a crash coarse in Aperture. How do I bring in more photos. I only have a few hundred in there now.
Thanks for any help
Mark

Lots more and very specific info is necessary for troubleshooting. Probably your hard drives is too full.
-Allen Wicks

Get an error message when importing from iPhoto says, "There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need at least 44GB of free space."

I get an error message when importing from iPhoto that says, "There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need at least 44GB of free space." the drive is empty, I just reformatted it to Mac OSX journaled.

I'm guessing this is an extrenal drive, correct? If so make sure the library you're importimng into is really located on the external drive. By default Aperture creates its library in your home pictures folder.

There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need at least 4GB of free space.

I have over 250 GB free space yet aperture still tells me i nedd more than 4 BG when importing my pictures (2 gb ) from iphoto library to apertura library ???
Any suggestions ??

And how much free space is on your system drive?
I strongly suspect that the system drive is nearly full: My guess: Aperture could not access the library on our external drive and tried to write to your system drive.
Then your options are:
create plenty of free space on the system drive
or find out why the extrenal cannot be accessed by Aperture
Reasons, why the external can not be read may be:
it is a network volume (that is not recommended for Aperture)
or the formatting is wrong. You need MacOS X extended formatting:
If necessary, reformat your external volume using disk utility and repair the permissions on the volume.
Regards

Aperture library volume full

I have received this message "there is not enough free space on your aperture library to import selected items" I do not know wwhy there is not enough space when I have the library on a separate hard drive in the computer. Please help.

I had one occurrence on my Quad, but under 1.0.1/10.4.5 as I recall.
I emptied the Trash, and then I ran Disk Utility/Repair Permissions and some permissions were reset. The problem has not recurred. So, unknown if it was coincidental, whether closing Aperture and reopening was the solution. However, I now routinely run Disk Utility/Repair which mostly gives me a thumbs up, but occasionally does reset a/some permissions.
The Quad is 2x500Gb in a RAID 0 configured as two spanned partitions. Aperture's library was on the Alpha partition, was 145Gb in size and which had around 200Gb of free space. Vault was on a 300Gb external firewire drice.

There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need at least 10GB of free space.

Hi - I am hoping someone can help. I have nothing in my Aperture library currently. I have 77 GB of free space on my hard drive. Why will it not let me import my pictures? I've deleted trash, and wracked my brain to figure it out, but I'm stumped. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!

Is the drive your are attempting to use internal or external. If external is it formatted OS Extended? Aperture requires that the library be on a probably formatted drive.
If thats not the cause post back your hardware setup, type of drive, etc.
regards

What is the Aperture 3 library volume limit?

When I attempt to import photos from my Nikon D90 into Aperture 3 I receive the following message: There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need at least 333MB of additional free space.
I have about 10GB of free space on my HD so seemingly the volume limit appears to be specific to the software itself. What is the volume limit in Aperture 3? Assuming I have reached the limit, what are the suggested best ways to store folders or free up a sizeable amount of space within Aperture?
Justin

Justin-
Hard dries slow as they fill and become unstable at some unknown point; handling large chunks of data can become problematic. And less-than-ideal RAM will exacerbate HDD issues.
As a guideline I strongly recommend not exceeding ~70% full. Having just 10 GB free HDD space you are asking for a data-destroying crash. You should offload data to an external drive immediately. Do not try to work until you have at least 100 GB free space on that internal HDD.
Of course often a boot drive will still function 90+% full, but not always. And overfilled HDDs are always slow.
Hard drives are dirt cheap now. There is no reason to put data at risk by overfilling hard drives.
Solid State Drives (SSDs) do not suffer from the same limitations as HDDs but still need some free space available.
23k D90 photos is not very many. Buy a 2-TB external hard drive and reference the photos to your external HDD by (from within Aperture) relocating the originals/Masters to the external HDD. In addition original image files must be separately backed up to yet another drive. In the future do that backup of originals before importing into Aperture.
HTH
-Allen

Aperture Library Full

I'm getting the following message when trying to import images (into Aperture3) from a folder on my desktop:
"There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need at least 241MB of free space."
I'm not very Apreture savy, but I have tried the following:
Tried setting the "Store Files" to "in the Aperature Library" "in current location" and a folder on my desktop setting. All render the same message noted above
Deleted my Aperture Library folder; started Aperture to create a new library folder; got the same message noted above.
Checked my HD space avaiable, it has over 1TB remaining
Check Library size in Finder under home/Pictures/Aperture Library it indicates no size for the library
Any ideas?
Stu

Lex/John:
Thank you for your guidance. It allowed me to fomulate the correct search phrase and stumple upon this proceedure which, although from the Aperture2 manual, also worked in Aperture3:
To change the location of a library file:
1 Quit Aperture.
2 Locate the Aperture Library file in the Pictures folder on your hard disk and move it to the new location in a different folder or on a different hard disk.
3 Open Aperture and choose Aperture > Preferences, or press Command-Comma (,).
4 Click General in the Preferences window, if necessary.
5 Click Choose under the Library Location option.
6 Navigate to the new location of the library, select it, and click Select.
7 Quit Aperture and then reopen it.
When you reopen Aperture, it accesses the library in the new location.
found it here: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=25265.0
Stu

What is the best way to copy aperture library on to external hard drive? I am getting a message that say's "There was an error opening the database. The library could not be opened because the file system of the library's volume is unsupported".

What is the best way to copy aperture library on to external hard drive? I am getting a message that say's "There was an error opening the database. The library could not be opened because the file system of the library's volume is unsupported". What does that mean? I am trying to drag libraries (with metadata) to external HD...wondering what the best way to do that is?

Kirby Krieger wrote:
Hi Shane. Not much in the way of thoughts - - but fwiw:
How is the drive attached?
Can you open large files on the drive with other programs?
Are you running any drive compression or acceleration programs (some drives arrive with these installed)?
Can you reformat the drive and try again?
Hi Kirby,
I attached the UltraMax Plus with a USB cable. The UltraMax powers the cable so power is not an issue. I can open other files. Also, there is 500GB of files on the drive so I cannot re-format it. Although, I noted I could import the entire Aperture Library. However, I do not want to create a duplicate on my machine because that would be defeating the purpose of the external drive.
Thanks,
Shane

The Aperture Library could not be created at "/Volumes/Data/Aperture Library.aplibrary". Check the path and try again.

Hi,
I cannot reopen library. During opening aperture I can see a list of libraries. After selection "Aperture library.aplibrary" (default I guess) msg box is open
"Library info directory path contains a file where a folder was expected.
The Aperture Library could not be created at “/Volumes/Data/Aperture Library.aplibrary”. Check the path and try again."
Moreover, aperture library is not visible in other apps like Final Cut X Pro. I assume this is caused by the aperture problem.
Can anybody help me?

Sounds strange.
Did you try to double click your "Aperture Library.aplibrary"?
Maybe trying to open backuped library...
Or creating a new library by pressing the alt key when clicking on the Aperture Dock icon.

Aperture library could not be opened because the file system of the library's volume is unsupported.

Does anybody know how to fix this? please help!

See this page to format your drive: Format external drives to Mac OS Extended before using with Aperture
After your external drive is formatted correctly, drag the Aperture library to the drive. Formatting will erase the drive. SO besure to backup any files to a different volume before you format your drive.

Spreading your Aperture Library across multiple volumes/drives/disks

I recall reading posts elsewhere by others (on an Adobe Lightroom forum) on how one's Aperture Library had to sit on one volume, meaning that it could not span multiple disks. At the time I figured I would be fine for a while since I had about 150 GB of free space on my main disk, yet kept the topic at the back of my mind.
Today, as I do regularly, I was backing up my (Aperture) library to my iPod, (not through the "vault" mechanism but simply using Finder,) when I noticed it was copying (many) individual files, rather than one large file! Being familiar with Unix, including how certain items in Mac OSX are treated, such as "Applications" that appear to be one object in the GUI, yet are merely a folder structure behind the scene, it occurred to me that the Aperture Library, rather than being some sort of single-file database format, just might be a folder instead.
I checked, and it is. Mind you, that doesn't prevent Aperture from keeping proprietary files within those folders, however, it would seem to me that one could easily use symbolic links to throw some of the files, perhaps at the project level, onto other disks, and thus span your library across multiple volumes even if Aperture does not yet offer or manage this ability.
iMac G5 2.1 HGz, 1.5 GB RAM, 20" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Perhaps this article will help shed light on Aperture's library organization:
http://homepage.mac.com/bagelturf/aparticles/library/libinside/libinside.html
Enjoy!
-- Jim

There was an error opening the database for the library "/Volumes/Aperture Master/Unknown/Aperture Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary". what do I do now?

There was an error opening the database for the library “/Volumes/Aperture Master/Unknown/Aperture Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary”.
What do I do now. I cant access the photos on the drive. The only option is Quit? what ??????????
Please help ready to throw computer and drive out the window. I have a deadline of next Tuesdaythe 11th.

Start Aperture while holding down the option and command keys. You'll get a Photo Library First Aid dialog as below.
Try Repair Database first. If that doesn't work, then redo the startup with option-command and try Rebuild Database. These repair processes can take a long time with a larger library.
If all that fails, you can try creating a new library from scratch and then try importing the old library into the new. This sometimes can fix problems that can't be repaired the First Aid way.
Also make sure the drive where the Aperture library is located is working properly. You can check it with Disk Utility app.

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