AppleTV: sharing aperture library on external disk

I moved my Aperture library from the iMac to an external hard disk in order to free memory capacity on the iMac. Adjusted the settings in iTunes in order to instruct AppleTV to use the Aperture library on the external HD. It fails completely. Checked the permissions of the library on the HD and they are R/W, so that cannot be the issue. Anyone familiar with what I have missed?

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/>.
Good luck!
-Allen Wicks

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