How big is your Aperture library?

I've only used Aperture for a year or so, but the nature of my job requires I deal with an enormous amount of photos, so my library is 320 GB (about 65,000 photos - all managed). I love the app and performance isn't an issue with my current MacPro but I'm starting to wonder how much is too much. I anticipate adding 30,000 images per year.
Do you think its smart to break it up and have multiple libraries? Or is this size not that big a deal? I think I will eventually be forced split unless I get a larger hard drive. What size is your library?

my library has over 100,000 photos in it, and it's 260GB, mostly referenced. i don't really think that the library size will make that much of a difference, unless it's very small.
splitting up your library kind of defies the point of using aperture in the first place (at least for me, a photojournalist who needs to be able to search his archive without having to open a number of different libraries to do so).
my suggestion would be to manage the photos you are currently working on/with, and reference older ones. that way you can keep your database size more limited. in order to keep backups of your referenced photos, you can just copy the referenced ones to another external disk or to dvd (there's a plugin available to do that).
j

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How large is your Aperture Library?

How many photos is it?
How many gigabytes does it take up?
Do you use referenced or managed?
Mine is around 10,000 photos and takes up 80 gigabytes. The library is managed.

Why? Polls are not allowed on the forum.

There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library Volume Question

When importing more images to Aperture I get this:
There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library Volume to import the selected items
Why is this? I am a big time newbee and I am trying to take a crash coarse in Aperture. How do I bring in more photos. I only have a few hundred in there now.
Thanks for any help
Mark

Lots more and very specific info is necessary for troubleshooting. Probably your hard drives is too full.
-Allen Wicks

HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO RETRIEVE MY OLD LIBRARY OF PHOTOS, ALBUMS AND PROJECTS SINCE DOWNLOADING AN APERTURE 3 SOFTWARE UPDATE TWO DAYS AGO. THE NEW LIBRARY ONLY HAS A FEW NEW PHOTOS IN ONE FOLDER PLEASE ADVISE AS HOW TO RETRIEVE OLD APERTURE LIBRARY WITH

HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO RETRIEVE MY OLD LIBRARY OF PHOTOS, ALBUMS AND PROJECTS SINCE DOWNLOADING AN APERTURE 3 SOFTWARE UPDATE TWO DAYS AGO. THE NEW LIBRARY ONLY HAS A FEW NEW PHOTOS IN ONE FOLDER
PLEASE ADVISE AS HOW TO RETRIEVE OLD APERTURE LIBRARY WITH ALL MY PHOTOS, ALBUMS AND PROJECTS

Find the old Aperture library in the Finder and double click it to launch Aperture with that library set to the default.
And check your caps look key. It appears to be stuck.

How do I import Aperture Library into Photoshop Elements 12?

New to Photoshop Elements 12.How do I import Aperture Library into Photoshop Elements 12?

You would really need to export copies from the Aperture database, to folders on your hard drive and then import them into Organizer.
Or continue with Aperture (don’t use Organizer) and simply send photos to the Elements Editing app as required.

Get an error message when importing from iPhoto says, "There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need at least 44GB of free space."

I get an error message when importing from iPhoto that says, "There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need at least 44GB of free space." the drive is empty, I just reformatted it to Mac OSX journaled.

I'm guessing this is an extrenal drive, correct? If so make sure the library you're importimng into is really located on the external drive. By default Aperture creates its library in your home pictures folder.

IPhoto 9.6: How to move your iPhoto library to a new location?

Hello,
How do I move my iPhoto libraries from my system disk to a data only disk in iPhoto 9.6?
I followed the instructions on this support website titled " iPhoto 9.5: How to move your iPhoto library to a new location."
However, this only appears to have copied the libraries, not move them.
According to what I see in Finder, I now have the same library on two different disks, but that was not my intention.
Thank you

So, delete the one from the unwanted location.
When you move data across volumes by default it is copied to the new location, afterwards you delete it from the previous location. It's a sensible protection against dataloss of anything goes wrong with the copy.

How big is your Library and how is your Performance?

I am getting a new iMac this week and would like to import all of my photos into iPhoto. I have upwards of 10K and will continue to add to it.
I will be getting a 2.4 20" iMac with a 320GB 7200 drive and 3GB of RAM.
What kind of performance can I expect? Will it be snappy when viewing that many files?
How many photos are in your library, what are your system specs, and what is your iPhoto 08 performance like?

Mike:
My primary library has 20,500 photos/movies in it. It takes 8-10 seconds to load and be ready for my activity. After that it's quite fast.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Spreading your Aperture Library across multiple volumes/drives/disks

I recall reading posts elsewhere by others (on an Adobe Lightroom forum) on how one's Aperture Library had to sit on one volume, meaning that it could not span multiple disks. At the time I figured I would be fine for a while since I had about 150 GB of free space on my main disk, yet kept the topic at the back of my mind.
Today, as I do regularly, I was backing up my (Aperture) library to my iPod, (not through the "vault" mechanism but simply using Finder,) when I noticed it was copying (many) individual files, rather than one large file! Being familiar with Unix, including how certain items in Mac OSX are treated, such as "Applications" that appear to be one object in the GUI, yet are merely a folder structure behind the scene, it occurred to me that the Aperture Library, rather than being some sort of single-file database format, just might be a folder instead.
I checked, and it is. Mind you, that doesn't prevent Aperture from keeping proprietary files within those folders, however, it would seem to me that one could easily use symbolic links to throw some of the files, perhaps at the project level, onto other disks, and thus span your library across multiple volumes even if Aperture does not yet offer or manage this ability.
iMac G5 2.1 HGz, 1.5 GB RAM, 20" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Perhaps this article will help shed light on Aperture's library organization:
http://homepage.mac.com/bagelturf/aparticles/library/libinside/libinside.html
Enjoy!
-- Jim

How do i move aperture library to from MBP external drive

Perhaps I am not searching properly,but was unable to bring up a 2011 answer to this question. Does anyone have more current help than 2011?

Thank you, léonie, for your extensive help. I do not wish to impose on you, but have answered the first part of your response below. If you were to continue helping, I would appreciate that greatly. I also hope continuing the conversation within the community this way is ok. If not please advise.
Hansjurg
“What exactly is the mess now? I do not want to contribute to it inadvertently by missing details.”
I meant that, the original library remained on my MBP and the copied library was on my new dedicated external drive. My original problem of only 50 gigs on my MBP meant the beach ball was quite active.
I set the library from within aperture to the file on my new dedicated external drive. Images I looked at appeared and all functioned well but slowly.
Since I had a vault set, had a clone of my original MBP hard drive from before the library copy and a time machine backup to another dedicated hard drive, I sent the original iMovie library to trash and deleted it.
I then reindexed spotlight and the MPB worked much faster, reflecting some 150 gigs available much better than 50 from before.
Is this summary correct?
My external drive was formatted correctly. I did user finder to move my "iPhoto" library from my mac to my external drive.
I did redirect Aperture to the external drive. but I see that the original library remains on my mac. (Which, as I mentioned above, with much care and several types of backup, I trashed the original file, which was on my MBP).
So you could open your library on the external drive? Is it working correctly? Yes
Are you able to open all images? Yes, based on a sampling of images.
Is your library referenced or not? That means, did you import your images into Aperture or photo with the "Import Settings" set to "Store Files: In the Aperture Library"?
I am not sure from where you got the graphic labeled “Aperture Library”. My Aperture version is 3.5.1.
When I go to Aperture preferences and select import, this is what I see:
In advanced this is what I see:
I think the difference is in my version.
Continuing, when I look at iPhoto, it references the new library on my external drive. Here’s that screen shot.
So, the Aperture setting says it is currently set to use iphoto for camera imports and iPhoto is set to use the new external drive’s library. I am not sure how file imports will be affected, but assume it will be the same. Is that correct?
Any comments up to this point?
I will now try the smart album comment.

Is there a way to update your aperture library manually?

I have my an aperture library on an external hardrive for storing old pictures from my past computer. The library on the external hard drive was used on version 3.2.4 and I seemed to have forgotten that when I upgraded my aperture to 3.3 recently, only converting the library stored on my computer. Now I am getting a message that my old external hardrive file cannot be imported because it is not the correct version, but I have no knowledge of how to upgrade it to 3.3. Is there any way to manually (or to be able to go back) and upgrade my 3.2.4 library version?
-Matt

Quit Aperture and double-click the library you want upgraded. Aperture will open and upgrade it. Once you've upgraded it you can import it into your other library.

There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need at least 4GB of free space.

I have over 250 GB free space yet aperture still tells me i nedd more than 4 BG when importing my pictures (2 gb ) from iphoto library to apertura library ???
Any suggestions ??

And how much free space is on your system drive?
I strongly suspect that the system drive is nearly full: My guess: Aperture could not access the library on our external drive and tried to write to your system drive.
Then your options are:
create plenty of free space on the system drive
or find out why the extrenal cannot be accessed by Aperture
Reasons, why the external can not be read may be:
it is a network volume (that is not recommended for Aperture)
or the formatting is wrong. You need MacOS X extended formatting:
If necessary, reformat your external volume using disk utility and repair the permissions on the volume.
Regards

HOW TO MOVE YOUR ITUNES LIBRARY TO AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

Read these directions before actually doing anything, just so you can do this right. I've messed things up before, it can get ugly...
That being said, here's what you've gotta do if you're running on a Mac:
Have all your music on the external hard drive. It should be organized in folders the way iTunes set it up
The folders should be organized something like this:iTunes Media (Top folder, everything is inside of this folder)
Audiobooks
Automatically Add To iTunes
Books
Downloads
iPod Games
iTunes U
Mobile Applications
Music
Podcasts
Ringtones
TV Shows
Voice Memos
Those folders are what I have in my 'iTunes Media' folder on my external hard drive. You don't necessarily need to have all of these folders. (I happen to just have a lot of things in my iTunes.)
Finding your iTunes Library Files
The way iTunes works is there are two parts to make what you see in iTunes work right. There's your media (songs, video, iPod games and Apps, etc) and there are your library files. They tell iTunes what your playlists are, where your 'iTunes Media' folder is located, and a lot of other important things. Here is how to find the iTunes Library files (there will probably be more than one!)
Look in (yourusername)/Music/iTunes
There will be a few things in here:
Album Artwork (It's a folder)
iTunes Library Extras.itdb
iTunes Library Genius.itdb
Itunes Library.itl
iTunes Media (a folder)
iTunes Music Library Backup.xml (this file might or might not be here. If there is no file with this name, it's okay.)
iTunes Music Library.xml
Some "temp" files (maybe, maybe not -- they are not important for this)
Anything in the list that is BOLDED needs to be placed in (yourusername)/Music/iTunesIf you copied these files to your external hard drive, you will need to copy them back onto your internal hard drive. These library files do not need to be in the same place as your iTunes Media folder.
Telling iTunes Where Your Music Is
Now that your iTunes Media folder is on your external drive, and your Library Files are in place in "(yourusername)/Music/iTunes", we need to open iTunes.
On the top bar of the screen, go to iTunes>Preferences.
In preferences, go to the farthest right tab, titled "Advanced" with a picture of a gear.
The top section says "iTunes Media Folder location" and underneath that you see a filepath ending in the 'iTunes Media" folder.
This path is probably wrong, not leading you through the external hard drive.
If it is incorrect:
Click "change" on the right and then locate the folder in the prompt that shows up. Once the "iTunes Media" folder on your external hard drive is highlighted blue, click "Open" in the bottom right corner of the window.
Give iTunes a moment or two (depending on the size of your library) to re-locate all of your songs. Voila!
If it is correct:Do nothing!
While you're in the advanced section, let's check to make sure you have a few important 'housekeeping' things checked off:
"Keep iTunes Media folder organized" (CHECK THIS BOX!)
"Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" (CHECK THIS BOX!)
At this point, iTunes should be all ready to go. Before I get into any troubleshooting, note a few things:
If you ever unplug/disconnect the external hard drive from the computer, you must first make sure that iTunes is NOT running.
Also, if the hard drive is unplugged and you open up iTunes, all of your songs will have little symbols next to them. Until you plug/reconnect the hard drive, the songs will stay like this and will be missing.
TROUBLESHOOTING:
Not having permission to access the external hard drive:
In Finder (or on your desktop), right-click the external hard drive (if you don't have right-click, control-click will also work).
Click on "Get Info"
A thin, tall window will appear on the screen.
Part One:In the "General" section, make sure that "Locked" is unchecked. If it IS checked, uncheck it.
Part Two:
We are now focusing on the very bottom of the window, where it says "Sharing & Permissions"/
In the bottom right corner of the window there is a small padlock icon. Click it. When asked for an administrator password, type it in, and click "Ok".
You will now notice that the bottom section of the 'get info' window is not greyed out anymore. Make sure your user name (it says in parentheses "(Me)" so there is no going wrong here) has "Read & Write" privileges.If not, click on whichever privilege you currently have, and a drop-down menu will appear. Click on "Read & Write".
If you have any other issues, I will add them to the troubleshooting list to help you out. Hope this was helpful!

My iTunes library is set up the way I said in the top post and works totally fine.
Yes, and that is the default structure to which I was referring. iTunes will organize it that way automatically unless people do start changing settings (in which case they should know what they are doing and how iTunes works with library files and media structure.)
Both ways work, the advantages of mine would be that should iTunes try looking fo a library, it will always be in the default location.
It makes people think they have to change media location in preferences. They do not unless they want to relocate media only and leave other things on their internal drive (in which case there is no point in copying library files to the external, and you certainly wouldn't want to then delete them from your internal).
Downside is that then should someone move their iTunes library to anther computer they need to remember to get those library files on the external hard drive.
Just copy the whole iTunes folder and it will get the library files to the other drive in one step, along with all the other files.
Your post has good stuff but it makes a move appear intimidating and look like people have to do a lot of organizing to move the collection. It also throws in extra steps (namely altering preference settings) that could cause confusion or even make a mess of things. If people leave iTunes to default preference settings (which most people do) the move summarizes into a short line: Copy a folder and hold an extra button the next time you start iTunes.
Note that the instructions in the link I provided earlier do also include many steps, but those are to ensure that everybody does have it all organized correctly before simply copying the iTunes folder. In the end it is just a simple action.

How to share your itunes library with another person

how can two people have all the same stuff on their ipods/iphones? we have both bought different things but dont know how to share them

Hey jimyam,
Thanks for the question. If you wish to access your music library from multiple devices, anywhere, It sounds like iTunes Match may be the right service for you:
Apple - iTunes - Match
http://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-match/
With iTunes Match, all your music can be stored in iCloud — even songs you’ve imported from CDs. You can access your music from all your devices and listen to your entire library wherever you are. And you'll also be able to listen to iTunes Radio without ads.
iTunes Store: Subscribing to iTunes Match
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4914
Thanks,
Matt M.

How to keep my Aperture library from showing up in other user's iPhoto?

I use an iMac 24 with OS 10.8.2 I use Aperture on my account and my wife and kids use iPhoto on their separate accounts on the same computer.
For some reason, over the last few months, everytime they open thier iPhoto, my Aperture photos show up first in there. They have to wait until iPhoto stops its spinning beach ball (creating previews maybe?) before they can hit the Events box to find their own photos.
I have never set anything up to share libraries or anything like that. This behavior started on its own, possibly during one of the recent system upgrades. I have looked in the iPhoto preferences to see if there was an option to "automatically open Aperture library at launch" or something similar but could not find any such thing. Even a search on these boards has been inconclusive.
Does anyone know how I can keep all these iPhotos from opening up other libraries by default?
This is almost as annoying as the 'New software is available" alert message which keeps popping up in everyone's account, even the non admin ones and even after I have done all the available software updates.
Thank you for any help.
Bo

Thank you Frank. I did check those settings and none of them were "on".
Here are two new bits of info to narrow down the issue: It seems that this behavior happens only the first time after I import a new set of images in Aperture from a SD card, and only the first time iPhoto is opened after that operation.
In other words:
1. Import photos in Aperture in my account
2. The first time one opens iPhoto in another account it will automatically display the new photos that were imported in my account.
3. as soon as I click on "events" in that iPhoto session, all of these last imported photos disappear and only the ones that belong in that iPhoto library remain. All is working normally from then on.
Really odd. Almost as if a snapshot of the last imports was automatically distributed to all account and not purged until manually done so...
And secondly, although Aperture is teh very latest version, I still have iPhoto '09 (v 8.1.2). I wonder if there is a bit of incompatibility with it and OS 10.8.2 maybe...
Bo

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