I need help! I bought an external drive to backup the computer. but although the computer recognizes it (shows up on the right side with the icon - mybook3.0 - I cannot get time machine to look for a hard disc - it only wants to use airport!

I want to use time machine. So, I got a mybook3.0 and hooked it up. the computer recognizes it fine (shows the icon on the desktop etc) but time machine refuses to look for any hard disk, going on airport instead and refusing to let me select anything or do anything manually (buttons are not clickable - and anyway, no HD at all shows)
I'm getting frustrated!!
PLEASE HELP

Just to clarify - when you run Disk Utility (in your Utilities folder) the drive you bought doesn't show up in the window under your boot drive?
If it appears on your desktop, you should see it in the Disk Utility window as this displays all mounted drives.
You then click on the drive (Mybook3.0 or whatever it appears as), and choose Erase from the options on the right.
Best Wishes.

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Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Adobe Acrobat 3.0/Acrobat™ Distiller™ 3.01 to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Kathy Miller’s Computer/2009-03-08-153448.inProgress/62856C2A-1F0A-438D-925C-B5A18D6E5416/Maci ntosh HD/Adobe Acrobat 3.0
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Hi, all--here's hoping one or more of you Aperture veterans can help.
Here's my situation: I'm not new to photography, but I'm new to Aperture. Just bought 3.3 and still getting to know what it can do. I'm an emigre from iPhoto, and one of the reasons I upgraded within Apple is that I was tired of the non-intuitive nature of PS Elements. I like to take pictures, not spend endless time in the dim glow of a screen digging through sub-menus for stuff, and from what I read, Aperture seemed more intuitive.
But now I've got a seemingly very basic problem that hours of poring over discussion threads and searching through the hundreds of pages of the manual has done little to address with any clarity:
How do I move (not just copy) older photos in projects to external drives, but in such a way that Aperture still keeps track of them, even when the drives are not connected? (The Aperture marketing I read/viewed clearly said Aperture could do this, and I'm running out of space on my MacBook Pro (15" from about 2008, running Lion) with lots of CF cards piling up.)
Info that may help:
-I need to move not just original (imported into iPhoto directly from the camera) photos, but also those I've adjusted in Elements, then re-exported into iPhoto (I would say "and now into Aperture," but as you know, there's no longer an import process b/w iPhoto and Aperture).
-I shoot mostly RAW.
-I have no idea whether the pictures are "Referenced" or "Managed" (for space reasons, I have yet to import any files directly into Aperture; all existing photos are from iPhoto, and if I was given an option when I set up Aperture, I don't now recall it).
-I have external drives with plenty of space to move older pix to (I also have multiple backups, including Time Machine, additional external hard drives, and DVDs)
Can somebody who knows how to do this safely please explain in clear language how to move photos as projects onto external hard drives so that Aperture keeps track of them via viewable thumbnails, even when the photo files themselves live on a hard drive that is not connected at the time?
Thanks in advance!

First things first:
You can easily check if an image is managed or referenced by ctrl-clicking on an image version and selecting "Locate referenced files...". If Aperture says "No Referenced Files", your originals are managed by Aperture and stored within the library itself, otherwise it should show you the location of the original, and give you some options to verify the references and so on. I don't know which method is used when importing from iPhoto.
Now, here's something you need to ask yourself:
Does it make more sense for you to keep the library on your laptop and the originals on an external drive, or does it make more sense to move both the library and the originals to the external drives?
In the first case, you can open and look at the thumbnails, but there's not a whole lot else you can do with your images when the external drive is off line.
If you have vast amounts of originals, spread across multiple drives, it might make sense to keep the library on your laptop and connect whichever external drive you need at the time. However, it might also make more sense to split such a huge library into mutiple libraries, stored with their respective originals (which could be either managed or referenced).
In my case, it makes sense to keep multiple libraries, with managed originals, but your mileage may vary.
Here's a tip that might help you decide: A small library is quicker to navigate and work with than a huge one, although performance has improved vastly with later versions of Aperture.
Once you have decided on the appropriate organization, you can start moving things around (after you've created the appropriate backups):
If your library contains all managed originals already, and you want to move the entire library off to the external drive:Simply drag and drop the library itself (using Finder) to the new location.
If your library use referenced originals, and you want to keep it that way, or your library manages your originals, and you want to start using referenced originals:
Select all your images
Click on the File menu and select Relocate Originals...
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Click on Relocate Originals, and twiddle your thumbs while Aperure moves all your originals to the new location.
If your library uses referenced originals, and you wish to let your library manage the originals:
Select all your images
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Click Ok, and wait for the operation to complete.
(Optional) If you wish to move your entire library to the external drive, drag and drop the library to the new location.
I hope that answers your question.
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Drag images from internal drive to external...
Relocate Masters...
Locate Referenced Files......
I realize these options are available, but I'm wondering which way to do this. Out of 160 GB of images about 1/2 of them are imported into Aperture while the remaining 1/2 are on the Mac but not in Aperture. All images are on my internal drive and I use Aperture as referenced masters, not managed. I need to make space on my internal drive and need to move all images (those already imported and those not yet imported) to an external. Given my current set up (1/2 imported 1/2 not), which option is best for a clean move to the external w/o messing up Aperture?
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Jerry -- sorry, this thread slipped by. I haven't had the time recently to be attentive.
jbshanks wrote:
So, I still need a little help with this. If I have this folder structure on my internal drive and 1/2 of those images are imported into Aperture (but referenced), and I use the "Relocate" feature, how will they be moved? Will it take the folders to the external or just the images, leaving the folders on the internal drive?
I'm afraid to experiment in case it messes things up. Any help is greatly appreciated.
1. Don't be afraid to experiment -- set up a practice Library and use it to experiment. That's how all of us learned what we know.
2. Your situation is a little peculiar, and I'm going to recommend something I wouldn't otherwise. First, backup your system and confirm your backup. Then go ahead and use Finder to copy all the Finder folders and files in question, intact, to a new drive. Then delete the ones on your system drive. Then open Aperture and run "File➞Locate Referenced Files" to re-attach your Aperture Images to your moved files. You may have to run "File➞Locate Referenced Files" more than once (but most likely not) in order to end up with no Images that have missing Originals. (If you need to, search for posts on the board about using this command.)
At that point, you have done what you set out to do: move all of your photo files to an external drive while retaining the connection between those that are Aperture Originals and their corresponding Images in Aperture.
But you haven't addressed the very good point brought up by bjurasz, which is that you are going out of your way to maintain competing databases. Aperture is a database of your Images. It has _outstanding_ storage and retrieval capabilities. Finder is a database of your files. It doesn't do a tenth the job Aperture does. Finder is a file manager. Aperture is an image manager (that does good file management). Aperture has _terrific_ tools for helping you instantly retrieve _any_ subset of your Images (e.g.: family, spouse, dog, students from 2010, science students from 2010, vacation photos, vacation photos w. spouse, etc.). The key to this is simply tagging your Images (e.g.: grayscale 2010 vacation photos w. spouse and dog) so that you can retrieve them as needed. Importantly, you are not confined to a flat folder structure and whatever information you can stuff into the file name, as you are with Finder. (Yes, more or less -- Finder is actually much more sophisticated than many realize or use.)
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