Duplicating an existing Aperture Library on another machine: problem unsolved

I'm trying to duplicate one existing A3 library onto another machine. It's not working: the folder structure is different there. My aim is to be able to work with a duplicate library on the other machine in another location. Images are referenced, not managed.
I copied the Aperture library and the image folders. But the projects in A3 are not showing up as they do on the original machine. I assumed these are embedded in the Ap. library. Are they stored in another setting? I haven't tried copying over the Aperture folder in the Application Support folder, which contains Metadata sets and other things that look promising (esp: FileFolderPresets). Would that be the key? Nor have I copied over preferences.
Any tips appreciated. Haven't seen a good answer on this site yet. Thanks.

If by reconnected the masters you mean "Relocate Masters": no. First, what's different is that the Project structure is missing/not showing. Or rather (oddly) only up through April (Dec-April); I had A3 going on the 2nd machine a while ago and seemed to have the projects intact (same as on machine 1), good thru April. Now I need to update through June. None of the later months are showing.
Relocating Masters would not, I think, reproducing the Projects hierarchy, which is also what I need (and I don't think—I need to check—that my images are unreferenced, but they may be).
I read somewhere that you need to export Projects (https://discussions.apple.com/message/1837335#1837335, Ian Wood's contribution). But I don't know if you can export sets of Projects, and whether that's even the right way to go when dealing with several months (I organize months as Projects, and occasionally have interspersed events labeled as Projects, like Graduation).

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Hello Barty,
is your library referenced or managed?
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My question is this. If I make a bunch of updates to
the library (adding new images, new projects, new
albums, rating new and existing images, assigning
keywords, etc) on my MBP while sitting at Starbucks
or laying on the beach is there any way to go home
and sync these changes with the library on desktop
machine?
I realize that if I do all my work on the MBP in a
new Project and then export that project I can then
import it into the machine at home ... but that only
solves 1/2 my problem ... how do I deal with projects
and albums that already exist on both machines?
Copying the entire Aperture Library back and forth is
an option but at 40GB and growing that does not seem
like a lot of fun.
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worked. Would something like ChronoSync see inside
the Aperture Library container and deal with changed
items?
<...>
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* Import directories in exisitng projects with new images and updated sidecar/XML files.
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All of these things are just files so it should be very easy for the sync utilitiy to find they are newer on the laptop and copy them over.
Now what will not work well with this approach would be to edit files on the laptop and the desktop at the same time, and then attempt to syncronize them - but if you are only using one at a time you should not have issues.
I would make a small sample library in both places to test this approach against but I see no reason why it should not work.
The only other approach really would be shuttling projects back and forth between systems, which you may have to do someday if your desktop library exceeds the capacity of the laptop.

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How did you restore from TimeMachine? It looks like TimeMachine restored to a different location and did not replace the current iPhoto-Aperture Library. Did you select to restore to the Desktop?
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I just upgraded to Aperture 3.3, on a MBP running Lion (10.7.4) - I am trying to share the library with my wife so that each of us can retain our separate accounts and preferences and be able to edit/print/add pictures to the library
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PS: all of the image files are actually stored on a NAS box and mounted via AFP. I tried moving the Aperture library to the NAS box but the performance was atrocious. so I kept the library on Macintosh HD and just reference the picture files from the NAS share.
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I am trying to share the library with my wife so that each of us can retain our separate accounts and preferences and be able to edit/print/add pictures to the library
Aperture is a single User program. Only one of you can use Aperture at a time. So you hvae to quit Aperture in your account, before your wife can launch it from her account. Also make sure that iPhoto is not using the library.
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I currently have my Aperture library on an external hard drive, as well as all the image files. Is it possible to move the Library to my laptop's hard drive, but to leave the image files on the external drive, and not lose any of the adjustments I have made?
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Yes you can do this. Relocate the masters in your library on the external HD to a suitable folder structure on your external HD. This will be fast since no images will be copied.
Then copy the library (now smaller) to your internal HD. To ensure you know which library you are opening, double click the library icon when you want to open it. Once you are sure everything is fine, delete the old library on the external drive.
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http://www.bagelturf.com/aparticles/ref/index.html

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I travel between locations some 7hrs apart and want to take my Aperture Libary and Vault with me to add to and work on in each location.
I have a Mac Pro at one location and MBP and 2011 Mac Mini (pre thunderbolt) at the other running Aperture v3.1.3 and Snow Leopard 10.6.8
I have my Aperture Libary, Vault and Referenced files etc on a seperate/external drive/s to my OS and applications.
Having to reconstruct the libary from a vault each time I change locations is time consuming as I am working with a growing Libary at the moment 720GB + 500 GB of referenced files on a second HDD
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A few points to consider:
To make a vault into a normal library you use the restore function in Aperture.
Having the vault and live library on the same spindle is not a good idea as you realize, if one goes they both go, so you need to get the vault onto a separate drive ASAP. Also as the masters are referenced you need to make provision to get those backed-up as well. And remember as they are referenced backing up the library (either by vaulting it or copying it) will not back up the masters in this case.
Given that you are physically moving the drive between locations getting everything backed-up is even more important. Also remember if the environments you are moving the drive between are extreme (moving from cold to warm in either direction) give the drive time to acclimate before spinning it up. And after you have spun it up give it some time before actually writing to it.
The question of using a vault over simply copying the library is asked a lot. There are pros and cons to each.
On the plus side. If you have a managed library the masters are backed-up with the vault and as libraries with masters in them tend be large the fact that the vault operation only write the changes after the initial vault operation makes for quicker back-ups. Copying a full library with referenced masters can't be a long process.
If the library has referenced masters in it the advantages of the vault aren't as great. You still need to back-up the masters seperatly and as the library tends to remain smaller copying it isn't as big a deal.
One other thing to keep in mind about vaults. You can't get just a single image or project out of it. It needs to be restored before you can open it with Aperture. So you will need the disk space to do the restore. With a copy you can just access it with Aperture.
Hope this helps,
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