Aperture Vault on External HD

Greetings, my wife has filled a 500GB Iomega drive with Aperure Vaulting. I would like to delete all backups and then do a full backup/vault as she has made significant changes in her Aperture Library. Question, Should this be done by Disk utility and erasing the entire drive or by dragging the Aperture B/U file into the trash.

Fixed it at last.
Rebuilding the library (cmd + option/alt while starting aperture) made the vaults available again (without aperture freezing) so then I was able to delete the corruptet vaults...

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    Tried searching around here for info about this, but wasn't able to find anything specifically on this subject, so...
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    (Apologies for bad english)
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    Having problem backing up to vault on external HD. ApertureVault window indicates it is disconnected, but it is not, and when I try to update path I get an error message saying "Not a valid vault file." The vault was originally on a different external HD, but I thought I had moved it successfully.Likewise when I try to backup it says no vault connected. I backed up a month ago, no problem, and since have upgraded to 3.2.3. Any advice? Thanks.

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    Regards
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    P.S. If that still should not work, create a new vault on your new drive, and immediately back up to the new vault.

  • Backup Storage - Aperture Vault versus Time Machine versus daily SuperDuper

    What value does dumping the Aperture library to an Aperture Vault give in addition to running Time Machine to one drive and a daily SuperDuper copy to a second drive with irregular SuperDuper copies to an external drive that can be removed from the machine room.

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    The advantage of Time Machine: incremental backups of previous versions, very compact storage. And you can integrate it into your regular backup of the whole system and include the regular masters as well. But the disadvantage: Time Machine decides for you, what will be deleted, if the backup drives get full. You do not have control over what will be saved and what not from the previous versions.
    The advantage of vaults: You can make full backups of your library for well defined moments in time - snapshots of important states. I'd create a vault, whenever I make a major upgrade of the system at least.
    Is there anyway of cancelling a stuck Vault update other than the sledgehammer approach of Force Quit?
    If the graphical user interface is unresponsive, like when updating a vault, you can use the Terminal to send the "termination signal" to Aperture: Sometimes this will succeed, even if the "Quit" button does not work:
    Look for the Process ID of Aperture in the Activity Monitor (launch Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor" and click the CPU heading. This will bring Aperture close to the top of the list. Make a note of the PID number in the first column, in this case 66550.
    Launch a Terminal window and enter the following command:
    kill -TERM 66550           (insert Aperture's PID instead of 66550)
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    Regards
    Léonie

  • Folder labeled "Images Removed from Aperture Vault #1"

    Hi all,
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    Is this normal behavior?  Can I delete all those sub-folders, etc.?  Should I keep the folder itself?  Did I somehow set this up initally?
    Anyhoo, thank you all for any suggestions.

    Yes it is a normal but unreported feature. When you run the vault command the vault created is a snapshot of the current state of the library. If there is a previous vault for this library then images that are in the vault but no longer in the library are moved to the folder you referred to.
    If you are certain you do not want any of those images anymore you an delete them.
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  • Aperture Library on External USB disk

    Hello
    My internal, 250GB disk on my iMac is almost full.
    Are there any performance / reliability issues I should be aware of of moving my 50GB aperture library to an external USB disk ??
    I don't use time machine to back it up - just the aperture vaults. I would probably back it up to a second external USB drive.
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    Andrew

    USB2 is a poor connectivity method for hard drives on Macs, adequate for backup where speed is unimportant but bad news for a Library. Aperture performance is largely about the Library, so you want it on a relatively unfilled internal drive, definitely not on an external USB drive.
    Hard drives slow as they fill above 40% or so. Take enough data off the internal drive to maintain at least 100 GB free space and keep the Aperture Library on the internal drive with Referenced Masters on external drives.
    In the future buy large hard drives (currently the 1 TB size is cost effective) that have multiple connectivity methods that include Firewire800 and eSATA. One good source is OWC: <http://www.owcomputing.com/>.
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    -Allen Wicks

  • Can't create Aperture vault on my new 1 Terrabyte Hard Disk

    Just bought two new Maxtor 1 terrabyte harddisks to back-up my Aperture vault,
    my Aperture Library is now about 450 Gb. When I'm making a new vault on the new hard-disk, wich takes several hours, my G5 will "colapse" after a few hours, the whole system is stuck and the only way to get out is too get the power of.
    When I restart and look at the disk I see that about 250 GB has been transported, I tried this several times and it's always stuck at about the same point. Also when I'm dragging the Aperture-file to the new disk, the same thing happens.
    When I do the same thing to a Maxtor 500 GB disk everything worls fine.
    Does anybody have a clue ? Thanks in advance !
    With kind regards
    Albert Brunsting

    It could be that the 1TB drive is heating up and shutting down after turning for several hours causing the system to lockup. Might try adding a cooling fan pointed at the external HD.
    One alternative is to reduce the library size. Export projects from that large library into another empty one until both are about equal in size. Then back up each library individually onto the external HD.

  • Aperture vault with no mother library - how do i update it?

    hello.  i had an aperture library i created for a project.  when i was done with the project i created an aperture vault on an external drive.  but stupidly i deleted the actual library that created the vault. 
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    Simple, effective answer:  Yes, make copies of your Libraries as back-ups and don't use the Vault feature.
    Vaults are no more than a back-up created from within Aperture.  (I suspect Apple added this feature on the assumption that users of Aperture did not regularly back up their data.)  They can be problematic (they can also be problem-free).  If you are comfortable with Finder or with a program such as SuperDuper or CCC, use it and don't bother with Vaults.  (That's what I do, and that's what other top posters here do as well.)
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  • Aperture vault is freezing at 50% when updating!

    I really need help on this! My aperture vault only seems to freeze and the progress bar is stuck at about 50%. I have to force quit aperture when this happens. I tried to make a new vault on a noter external disk. It is no help. I have a very powerful iMac. i7 SSD only one year old. Aperture version 3.3. The external disk is formated Mac OS Extended (journalført - norwegian Lion 10.7.4).
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    If you have followed all the methods mentioned in "Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics" http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US (repair and rebuild etc.) then I would advice to wait and let it work longer. It may seem to get stuck but if you wait (not 5 minutes but 5 or 20 hours) it may go through.
    I have already had years issue that taking Vault backup takes tens of hours. I have tried all tricks mentioned in this forum (if you search you should find 20-30 threads about Vault being slow, freezing etc.). Everybody here knows better and says that it should not take that long and will advice you to do this and that, but if you look at those 20-30 threads not even half have resolution for the person who had the issue.
    I'm backing up the library instead, from SSD to HD it takes 15 minutes with CCC (block copy including verify), and faster from SSD to SSD. Here is thread I opened to ask if this is OK:
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/18877353#18877353
    Best Regards,
    Samuli

  • Aperture vault

    I've been updating my monthly Aperture vault for 48 hrs and it seems to be 2/3 finished, but I see no action in past 24 hrs. I have close to 100 K pictures. How long will it take?

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  • Large aperture library on external drive; too large to move to internal before switching to photos

    I have a 395gb aperture library on an external drive. It used to reside on my old macbook pro, but i got a new one (retina) with a smaller hard drive and i haven't found a way to bring it over yet. My plan was (and i started) to slim it down by getting rid of photos and projects that I don't need, but it'll take a while.
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  • Aperture Vaults backing errors.

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    * Right click on a library to consolidate it (I had files in directories)
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    501 923 Aperture 10 /var/tmp/etilqs_KKaQ57jCtS5Axqr
    501 923 Aperture 10 /.vol/234881026/659652
    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/RKConfirmConsolidati onPanel.nib/keyedobjects.nib
    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/VaultMeter_Bar.psd
    501 923 Aperture 10 /var/tmp/etilqs_g9hYEWE5sZDoeJt
    501 270 SteerMouse Mana 6 /Applications/Aperture.app
    501 270 SteerMouse Mana 6 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents
    501 270 SteerMouse Mana 7 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Info.plist
    501 923 Aperture 10 /var/tmp/etilqs_7ZeT6bSx0LqNH4E
    501 923 Aperture 10 /var/tmp/etilqs_XeVrmSC2RVmTSWJ
    501 923 Aperture 10 /.vol/234881026/659606
    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/ProgressPanel.nib/ke yedobjects.nib
    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/VaultMeter_Bar.psd
    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/VaultMeter_Bar.psd
    501 923 Aperture 10 /.vol/234881026/659606
    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/ProgressPanel.nib/ke yedobjects.nib
    501 923 Aperture 10 /.vol/234881026/427715
    501 923 Aperture 10 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ProKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Leopard Panels.bundle/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/NSAlertPanel.nib/keyedobjects.nib
    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/VaultMeter_Bar.psd
    501 270 SteerMouse Mana 6 /Applications/Aperture.app
    501 270 SteerMouse Mana 6 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents
    501 270 SteerMouse Mana 7 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Info.plist
    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/VaultMeter_Bar.psd
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    501 923 Aperture 10 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ProKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Leopard Panels.bundle/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/NSAlertPanel.nib/keyedobjects.nib
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    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/VaultMeter_Bar.psd
    501 923 Aperture 10 /.vol/234881026/427715
    501 923 Aperture 10 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ProKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Leopard Panels.bundle/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/NSAlertPanel.nib/keyedobjects.nib
    501 923 Aperture 10 /.vol/234881026/427715
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    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/VaultMeter_Bar.psd
    501 923 Aperture 10 /.vol/234881026/427715
    501 923 Aperture 10 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ProKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Leopard Panels.bundle/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/NSAlertPanel.nib/keyedobjects.nib
    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/VaultMeter_Bar.psd
    501 923 Aperture 10 /.vol/234881026/427715
    501 923 Aperture 10 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ProKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Leopard Panels.bundle/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/NSAlertPanel.nib/keyedobjects.nib
    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/VaultMeter_Bar.psd
    501 923 Aperture 10 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/VaultMeter_Bar.psd
    dtruss output is a bit big, sending it via mail
    Erm ... I don't have your mail.
    Mine is : mathieuma _ aT _ users dot sourceforge … net
    Message was edited by: MathieuMa

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