Moving an Aperture Library to another disc.

I currently have my Aperture library on an external hard drive, as well as all the image files. Is it possible to move the Library to my laptop's hard drive, but to leave the image files on the external drive, and not lose any of the adjustments I have made?
How would I go about doing this?

Yes you can do this. Relocate the masters in your library on the external HD to a suitable folder structure on your external HD. This will be fast since no images will be copied.
Then copy the library (now smaller) to your internal HD. To ensure you know which library you are opening, double click the library icon when you want to open it. Once you are sure everything is fine, delete the old library on the external drive.
Read up on referenced masters here:
http://www.bagelturf.com/aparticles/ref/index.html

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I've moved my Aperture library to another computer, and masters are referencing an old path name. How can I update these references? Reloctating masters does not work in this case :(

I've moved my Aperture library from one computer to another using Finder.
I merged the library with one which was already on the computer.
Now, the photos I imported have reference to the old path name on my old computer.
How can I update these references as "Relocate Masters" does not work in this case?

Just one suggestion to be able to reconnect all at once:
Create a smart album containing the images with missing masters:
File -> New -> Smart Album, and add a rule: File Status is "Missing" (or File Status is "offline")
Then select the images in this album and go to the File menu:
and select: File -> Locate referenced File
If you are lucky, Aperture will reconnect all at once, if you point the first image version to its counterpart.

I recently moved my Aperture Library file to an external hard drive. Can I now create a vault to be saved on my Time Capsule for the Aperture library on this external hard drive?

I recently moved my Aperture Library file to an external hard drive. Can I now create a vault to be saved on my Time Capsule for the Aperture library on this external hard drive?

One thing to bear in mind, if you are using Time Machine on your Time Capsule and have it set so the TM backup includes your external drive, you will effectively be backing up your Aperture library twice on the same drive, once with Time Machine and once with the vault. This isn't a problem unless you start to run out of space.
Another thing to note, vaults on network drives used to be flaky (i.e. not really supported) and required workarounds to be able to use them. I'm not sure if this has changed, but I just managed to create a vault on my TC ok.

Sharing Aperture library with another user on the same mac

Hi
I just upgraded to Aperture 3.3, on a MBP running Lion (10.7.4) - I am trying to share the library with my wife so that each of us can retain our separate accounts and preferences and be able to edit/print/add pictures to the library
I've seen some other posts, suggesting creating a separate directory outside of /Users which I've done: I've created /ApertureLib and moved the library there. I made sure I set permissions for owner, group and others to read/write/execute
When i try opening the library through my wife's account it tells me that "the library is being used by (null), you must first quit (null) to use this library"
I added sticky bits, tried to set ACLs, no dice...
any suggestions?
Thanks!
PS: all of the image files are actually stored on a NAS box and mounted via AFP. I tried moving the Aperture library to the NAS box but the performance was atrocious. so I kept the library on Macintosh HD and just reference the picture files from the NAS share.

PS: all of the image files are actually stored on a NAS box and mounted via AFP. I tried moving the Aperture library to the NAS box but the performance was atrocious. so I kept the library on Macintosh HD and just reference the picture files from the NAS share.
That is the safest solution. The Aperture library should reside on a local volume, MacOS X extended formatted. Your NAS probably is neither local nor formatted MacOS X extended, see
Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library
I am trying to share the library with my wife so that each of us can retain our separate accounts and preferences and be able to edit/print/add pictures to the library
Aperture is a single User program. Only one of you can use Aperture at a time. So you hvae to quit Aperture in your account, before your wife can launch it from her account. Also make sure that iPhoto is not using the library.
One big problem with sharing a Library are permissions and ownerships. When you make changes to an Aperture Library and add images, you are the owner of the added images. The safest way to share a library therefore would be to put it on an external volume or onto a separate partition of your hard drive. Then you can set the "Ignore ownership on this volume" flag and share the data with out permission problems. To set this flag on a volume, select it in the Finder and use "File > Get info" from the Finder's main menu bar (or press cmd-I).
Regards
Léonie

Share aperture library with another aperture user

How do I share the same aperture library with another aperture user on a different computer each using separate aperture software? We have have tried using a hard drive, but the vault is not showing up to download.

are you trying to work simultaneously from the same library? I'm not sure Aperture will handle that one very well, but as I've never tried it I can't say for certain.
You may be able to "check out" projects from the main library to work on individually within your own personal libraries. When you're done w/ your work you would check the project back in to the main library for someone else to use.
I think the danger is in trying to access the same .plist or image at the same time as Aperture wouldn't know who's instructions to follow.

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Hi,
I'd like to simply view (not edit) my aperture library from another computer on my home network. The aperture library resides on a mac pro, and I'd like to see the images on a macbook pro to show family members. On the surface, this seems like a simple concept - as Apple TV can do this with home sharing. Further, itunes can share it's library in this manner. Is this possible?
thank you,
T

You don't mention which OS you're using and I understand that Lion has changed some of the sharing features but what you are looking to do is doable.
Be warned that accessing an Aperture library over a network is slow and definitely not something you want to do if editing except in an emergency and you want to make triple sure that only one user is accessing the library at a time. But I regularly access libraries over wireless when I'm to lazy to walk across the house and need to check somthing out.
If you are using Snow Leopard go into System preferences->Sharing and tune on file sharing on the the Mac Pro. If you have the same user name on both systems you should have no problem accessing the library from the MBP.
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Duplicating an existing Aperture Library on another machine: problem unsolved

I'm trying to duplicate one existing A3 library onto another machine. It's not working: the folder structure is different there. My aim is to be able to work with a duplicate library on the other machine in another location. Images are referenced, not managed.
I copied the Aperture library and the image folders. But the projects in A3 are not showing up as they do on the original machine. I assumed these are embedded in the Ap. library. Are they stored in another setting? I haven't tried copying over the Aperture folder in the Application Support folder, which contains Metadata sets and other things that look promising (esp: FileFolderPresets). Would that be the key? Nor have I copied over preferences.
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If by reconnected the masters you mean "Relocate Masters": no. First, what's different is that the Project structure is missing/not showing. Or rather (oddly) only up through April (Dec-April); I had A3 going on the 2nd machine a while ago and seemed to have the projects intact (same as on machine 1), good thru April. Now I need to update through June. None of the later months are showing.
Relocating Masters would not, I think, reproducing the Projects hierarchy, which is also what I need (and I don't think—I need to check—that my images are unreferenced, but they may be).
I read somewhere that you need to export Projects (https://discussions.apple.com/message/1837335#1837335, Ian Wood's contribution). But I don't know if you can export sets of Projects, and whether that's even the right way to go when dealing with several months (I organize months as Projects, and occasionally have interspersed events labeled as Projects, like Graduation).

Confusion about moving my iphoto library to another hard drive.

My startup drive is nearly full and I'd like to my my iPhoto library (I still have iphoto 4) and photos to another internal drive to free up some space. I've found brief help pages on how to do this, but I find them vague and unclear. Do I make an exact copy of the pictures folder on my startup drive on another drive? And then how do I get iPhoto to look there instead?
I'm about to import a whole lot of photos and I"d like to be ablt to view them all without filling up the startup drive.
Is there a detailed instruction page on how to do it? the "1.1.1 moving your iphoto library" info page was not detailed enough for me.

How much "more exact" could you get when you duplicate your iPhoto Library folder?
I'm not sure what source you're relying on, but iPhoto Help describes in pretty clear terms how to 1) move your iPhoto library, 2) how to make multiple iPhoto libraries, and 3) how to switch between iPhoto libraries. Sounds like what you want to do involves 1 & 3.
I guess I don't understand your reference to 1.1.1 when you have iPhoto 4 installed. Drag your iPhoto Library folder to the intended destination, then follow the Help instructions for switching between iPhoto libraries. If all is well, delete the old iPhoto Library folder.

How do I move photos from one aperture library to another?

How do I move photos from one library to another?
Currently I Export to a new temporary library which I import to the other library but It feels kind of a hackish way to do it.
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That is the way it is set-up to be done (at least for Projects as Libraries).
The only other option is to export master or version (depending on what you want) and then import to other library.

HELP! HD crashed, had it data restored, moved my aperture library back in

now all the photos are there, i can see thumbnails and the large versions
but I have the yellow sign with the !, and it says master files not found..the master files were never referenced elsewhere, my aperture library is a 40+ gig library, all the original photos are still in there...
i have no idea why it's telling me the masters can't be found, when it's the masters that i'm looking at on the screen...

Glad to hear you got your data back, have you backed it up?
A couple of thoughts;
1. you have probably got a new drive to replace the one that died? Check that it is Mac OS formatted.
2. With recovering the data and "rebuilding the library you may need to get Aperture to do a "Rebuild" and Consistency Check"
This link gives an overview on how to do it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2945
Tony

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I have all my masters referenced on a 500GB FW drive so hopefully that bit is straight-forward, but due to the problems some people seem to be having with SnowLeo and Aperture, I really want to have an overlap period with Aperture on both machines until I get sufficient confidence to cut loose from Leopard. I understand the licensing restrictions concerning multiple access on the same network but I only need the Leopard library until I'm sure the SnowLeo one behaves as it should.
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So what's involved? Load Ap on the new machine, upgrade to 2.1.4 and then move some pref files? If so which ones guys?
Thanks in advance
Al

Logically that's what I thought, but you read so many scare stories here about people's libraries getting screwed up or files getting corrupted. I'm one of the (many) people who have never had problems with Aperture, and I just wanted to keep it that way
Thanks again
Al

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i was thinking of clear some space for my macbook, so i moved some images form picture to window disk, but i accidentally moved iphoto library too. And i didn't realised it would affect iphoto, until i opened iphoto finding all the images were gone. How can i get the images back?

This might help: Rebuilding the iPhoto library

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3 Importing iphoto library to Aperture questions:
(1) Finally switching to Aperture because too many photos to manage in iphoto. When importing iphoto library it gives me the message: Insufficient DIsk Space - "There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need an additional 83GB of free space."
The photos are all on an external drive which has 150GB free space. I also tried moving the aperture library to another hard drive which has lots of free space. I want the Aperture library to reside on the external drive so I can share it between my laptop and desktop.
I tried this at the apple store and it was going to work. I came home and it now says it needs 125GB free space. Is this a function of which computer you use to import the library? What can I do because I can't spend hours at the apple store if it may take that long to import all the photos from the library.
(2) Is there an optimum way to import a large library, rather than all at once?
(3)Used iphoto manager to create a project library from an iphoto library. Now have 2 good libraries to import, one with about 35k photos, the other with about 8k. The 8k will have some duplicates from the larger one. When I import that one I don't want to import duplicates, but do want to retain the organization and labeling of those duplicates in terms of which albums and events they are in. Is that possible?
Thanks!

Or use Aperture's built-in and suggested way to deal with the problem of a Library outgrowing your system drive: make many of your Image's Originals referenced rather than managed.
Aperture lets you store any Image's Original on any locally-mounted drive. Moving your Image's Originals from inside your Library (in which case they are "managed") to outside the Library (in which case they are "referenced") is easy -- as it moving them back.
The two main complications that arise from using Referenced Originals are:
- you must back up your Referenced Originals in addition to backing up your Library. Backing up your Library _does not_ back up your Referenced Originals
- you must not make any changes to your Referenced Originals with any program other than Aperture. _Do not_ use Finder to move, rename, etc.

Problems Moving iTunes Library To Another PC

Hi All -
I'm having problems moving my iTunes Library to another PC.
OBJECTIVE
I have a new PC, and I want to move my iTunes library off my old and onto the new. I want to be sure that I get all of the music and videos that I have both purchased and loaded. Total library size 132 GB.
MY CURRENT SETUP
o Old PC - Windows XP
o My current iTunes Library is not in the default location; my C: drive was too small, and I installed a separate data disk quite some time ago
o All of my files (music, videos, apps, etc.) are consolidated in the new library location.
WHAT I'VE DONE SO FAR
o Researched to find out how to copy my library to a new PC - from Apple's site
o Copied my iTunes library directory to an external disk.
o Installed iTunes on the new PC
o Opened iTunes on the new PC and changed the location of the library to a secondary data disk.
o Closed iTunes
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o Opened iTunes - where the heck is my stuff?!?
o Research ... i need the .itl file
o Apparently the itl file was not in the directory structure when I copied my library onto the external disk.
o Find the itl file ... copy the itl file ... open iTunes while holding down the <SHIFT> key
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Press & hold down shift as you click the icon to launch iTunes. Keep holding until prompted to choose or create a library, click choose and browse to G:\iTunes Library.itl
Check that you can play a file or two. Close iTunes
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Press & hold down shift as you click the icon to launch iTunes. Keep holding until prompted to choose or create a library, click choose and browse to G:\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl
Check under Edit > Preferences > Advanced that the media folder has been automatically updated to G:\iTunes\iTunes Media. If not, use the Change... button to correct it. Don't consolidate files if prompted. Close iTunes, then reopen.
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If the media won't play at any stage stop, check that you've followed the steps properly or ask for help.
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