How to upgrade Aperture with insufficient disk space

Hi,
I am trying to upgrade to the latest version of Aperture (from 3.4.3 to 3.4.4). I downloaded the update from the App Store but now whenever I try to launch Aperture it says that there is insufficient space on the library volume to perform the upgrade. The library is on a 3Tb external hard drive which only has 5Gb free. I have a lot of photos that I would be happy to delete but now I can't get in to delete them. If I select Cancel Upgrade then Aperture doesn't launch. I did briefly select Continue and Aperture started the upgrade but I Forced Quit from that as I assume it would eventually have crashed anyway.
Is there any way I can get in, using either the old or new version, to just go through and delete some images to free up the required space? Otherwise, is the only option for me to buy an even bigger external drive and manually copy the library file over to that?
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Robert

Robert,
I am just worried about what might happen, if our internal SSD should fail. The system files, your user settings, mail boxes, everything in your user library and system library, the installed applications, plug-ins, Aperture presets, etc. From what you are describing, you are taking good care of your documents, but the system itself and the work you are putting into configuring it is not backed up. Should your system drive crash you would have a hard time to recover from that.
The easiest way to backup your system drive and the internal HD2 would be to use one of your 3TB drives with Time Machine. You need not necessarily Time Capsule to be able to do that. Time Machine can work with any external disk, that is formatted MacOS X extended.
Just plug in the backup drive you want to use, then open "System Preferences" and click the Time Machine icon.
Click the "Select Backup Disk" button.
Enable "Show Time Machine in Menu Bar".
Click the "Options" Button. If your backup drive is not large enough to include your Aperture library, deselect the other external drives in the "Options" panel. You may even deselect the second internal drive, if you are backing that up differently and only want to create a backup of the system. Then a small 500GB drive should suffice to get you started with system backups. But backing up both internal drives at once using TimeMachine would be much preferable.
Then set the switch to "on".
The first backup may take a very long time, but it will run in the background, so let it run.
Léonie

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