How to deal with multiple hard drives?

I am using Aperture 1.5 but am having trouble
dealing with the Library structure. I want to be able to have Aperture recognize and work with Projects located on several different external hard drives. Where should the main library be located? In 1.5 is there such a thing anymore as a Branch library? I had a branch library on an external drive. I may have messed things up so that Aperture doesn't quite know where things are. Is there a way to re-organize things so that when I open Aperture ALL the projects I've worked with do appear? Thanks.

To have Aperture work with projects on different hard drives, just import the project files but tell Aperture to copy the files from their current location (say a media card or CD) to a directory of your choice on any drive of your choice. You can store projects on multiple drives. I don't think it matters where the main library is located, it could be on your primary drive, or on one of your external hard drives. I'm not sure how to consolidate projects that were enclosed in different libraries other than to export the projects individually, and then reimport them into the new centralized library. I do wish Aperture would allow one multiple select projects (it only allows you to select one at a time) for exporting. I also wish that Aperture had a 'Consolidate Libraries' command which would allow one to just pull all 'found' projects into one library.
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MDT2010.zip ‏261 KB

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