Freeing up my hard drive on a MacBook
How do I move my entire library to an external hard drive, keeping all the adjustments, so that I can access them easily and safely whilst freeing up space on my MacBook
Moving your Library is easy: close Aperture, and use Finder to move your Library. (Your Library is a Finder package -- it shows in Finder as a single file with the extension "aplibrary".)
Moving your Library to an external drive in order to free space on your system drive, however, is not the recommended thing to do. You should instead convert some (or all) of your Images' Masters from being Managed (which means, stored inside the "aplibrary" package) to be Referenced (when means stored outside the "aplibrary" package, at a location you specify). Aperture makes it easy to change Images' Masters from Managed to Referenced (and back).
There is information in the User Guide -- and plenty of posts here -- about using Referenced Masters.
As with any file of importance, you shouldn't do anything until you have made and verified a back-up.
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Peace Lilly wrote:
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secondrow wrote:
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