Cannot Open Aperture!! HELP

Getting a message that "the database is locked and cannot be used at this time". My library is on a LaCie external drive and I know the files are there!

Hello, promoguy
Quote: "When I restarted my computer I had to change the preferences for library location, but now when I open the program it says the database is locked."
Whenever you change the location of the Aperture Library you will have to restart Aperture. EDIT: If you changed the location manually by drag and dropping then open Aperture's Preferences Command , (Command comma) and reset it by browsing to the new location and then restart Aperture.
Quote: "And yes it is a large library."
How big is big? Aperture 1.0.1 will take a performance hit if the Library is more than 10,000 photographs.
Repair Disk Permissions in Safe Boot mode and try again.
Quote: "I know the files are on the LaCie drive..."
I do not know and I am not saying this is the problem but LaCie drives have a very high failure rate. I teach businesses that repair and recop data from macs and hard drives and they see an inordinate amount of LaCie drives that fail — higher than any other external drives.
love & peace,
victor

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