Moving Aperture Library to different drive.

Hi
I am looking to move my Library to an external drive to reduce the congestion on my imac 320gig drive.
Could you please let me know the best way to do this, I was going to use finder and just relocate the library and then just restart Aperture and re-link the association to the library.
Is this the correct method for carrying out this activity.
Regards
NW

Ian
thanks for the answer, I wanted to keep away from referencing the masters as I want to be able to use the vault back up process. I have just got two new 500gigs to use for this process I am going to use one for the location of the Library and other for the Vault.
That is the plan, when things start to get larger than 500 I have a 1tb drive ready for the library then I will do multiple vaults.
Regards
NW

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Want to move aperture library to different drive?

I want to get this right the first time. I did a search and could not find my exact question.
I have my aperture library on an external drive. I want to move it from that external drive to a different external drive. I think I do the following:
1. Tell aperture that my library is now on new external drive (via preferences).
2. Quit aperture.
3. Go to finder and drag aperture library icon from old external drive onto the new one.
4. Start aperture.
Is this correct? Thanks in advance!

Marie,
It's easier than that. Quit Aperture, move the library, and double-click on it when it's in the new location. Aperture will open the library, and will in fact set it as the default library.
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Ian
thanks for the answer, I wanted to keep away from referencing the masters as I want to be able to use the vault back up process. I have just got two new 500gigs to use for this process I am going to use one for the location of the Library and other for the Vault.
That is the plan, when things start to get larger than 500 I have a 1tb drive ready for the library then I will do multiple vaults.
Regards
NW

Is it possible to share an aperture library with different users using osx server.

is it possible to share an aperture library with different users using osx server.

Not really. You should not be sharing an Aperture library over a network. It's not designed for that and you'll likely corrupt your library at some point.

Using Aperture library with different accounts

I needed to use my library with two different accounts that are on the same MBP. I read where you might be able to put the library on an external disk and check ignore ownership on the info of the HDD. I had recently installed a 320GB HDD to avoid having to drag around an external so I thought maybe if I partitioned the drive it would "see" the second partition as an external. I partitioned off 50GB and checked the "ignore ownership" in the bottom left corner of the info window. I option+opened Aperture and created a new library in the second HDD. After opening Aperture, I imported a few pics into the library and made dup's. I modified them in my account, closed out of Aperture and logged off. I then logged in under my wife's account and was able to open Aperture by option+opening Aperture and choosing the new library location. The pics that I had imported under my log-in were there as well as the the modified versions. I re-modified the versions to see if it work the other way. I closed out of Aperture and logged out of my wife's account and logged in under mine. I clicked on the Aperture icon in my dock and it came right up w/out any problems. I was able to view the versions that I re-modified under my wife's log-in.
I know you shouldn't share the library across users just in case two account users are trying to access the same library at the same time; but in my case it is one laptop with two accounts so we wouldn't physically be able to access it at the same time.
So if you have a big enough HDD and you don't want to drag around an external, partition it however big you think you'll need it, check the "ignore ownership" box in the HDD info window, add read & write permissions for the different accounts, move/copy your current library to the new partition and option+open Aperture to choose the new location.

Thanks! Just the answer that I was looking for! I had tried just moving the library into the shared directory, but, as we now know, this does not work.
Now only if I had a partition on my local HD (with "ignore ownership" set)...

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To make room on my boot drive, I moved my Aperture library to an external drive. All seems to be well except for the list of subscribers in the window of shared photo stream albums. To be clear, the screenshot below is after you have created a photo stream album and click the "i" to add subscribers or if you right click on the photo stream album and choose "settings." I've tried loading other Aperture libraries, rebooting, etc. Any ideas greatly appreciated.
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Hi J,
don't feel alone, i'm also plagued by this problem. For the record could you please tell us which OS version you are running? I think the problem has gone a away for me to some degree with the recent updates. I only experience it when i extract folders and the resultant folder appears empty. Just create a blank folder inside the 'empty' one and yes they magically appear. I'm not sure what the issue is, but essentially finder isn't refreshing the folder contents. It will probably be fully resolved in some future point update. I wouldn't worry about it too much. Perhaps try and fix by reinstalling latest update, and or permissions check.
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Using same Aperture library with different machines

Hi
I travel between locations some 7hrs apart and want to take my Aperture Libary and Vault with me to add to and work on in each location.
I have a Mac Pro at one location and MBP and 2011 Mac Mini (pre thunderbolt) at the other running Aperture v3.1.3 and Snow Leopard 10.6.8
I have my Aperture Libary, Vault and Referenced files etc on a seperate/external drive/s to my OS and applications.
Having to reconstruct the libary from a vault each time I change locations is time consuming as I am working with a growing Libary at the moment 720GB + 500 GB of referenced files on a second HDD
I would just like to be able to set it up so I can just plug the Aperture library and Referenced files in launch Aperture and start working
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A few points to consider:
To make a vault into a normal library you use the restore function in Aperture.
Having the vault and live library on the same spindle is not a good idea as you realize, if one goes they both go, so you need to get the vault onto a separate drive ASAP. Also as the masters are referenced you need to make provision to get those backed-up as well. And remember as they are referenced backing up the library (either by vaulting it or copying it) will not back up the masters in this case.
Given that you are physically moving the drive between locations getting everything backed-up is even more important. Also remember if the environments you are moving the drive between are extreme (moving from cold to warm in either direction) give the drive time to acclimate before spinning it up. And after you have spun it up give it some time before actually writing to it.
The question of using a vault over simply copying the library is asked a lot. There are pros and cons to each.
On the plus side. If you have a managed library the masters are backed-up with the vault and as libraries with masters in them tend be large the fact that the vault operation only write the changes after the initial vault operation makes for quicker back-ups. Copying a full library with referenced masters can't be a long process.
If the library has referenced masters in it the advantages of the vault aren't as great. You still need to back-up the masters seperatly and as the library tends to remain smaller copying it isn't as big a deal.
One other thing to keep in mind about vaults. You can't get just a single image or project out of it. It needs to be restored before you can open it with Aperture. So you will need the disk space to do the restore. With a copy you can just access it with Aperture.
Hope this helps,
regards

Backing up Aperture library on external drive.

Lately I haven't been using Aperture, I've just been organizing all my pictures into folders, and keeping the folders in my Pictures folder. Then making a copy of the whole thing onto my external. I decided to start using Aperture.
I finally just finished organizing everything the way I want it. But how should I go about saving a backup to my external.
I have 2 libraries. I also have 2 vaults saved (one for each library). So when I go in my Pictures Folder, I see Aperture Library, Aperture Library 2, and my 2 vaults. Is it enough to just put the Vaults on my external? Or do I need to put the whole "Library" on the external. I would think it would be enough to put the Vaults, cause that's what I would think the vaults are for. To completely restore the library incase anything goes wrong. But I just wanna be sure before something happens to my computer, and all I have are Vaults that don't do me any good.

Issues,
I would think it would be enough to put the Vaults, cause that's what I would think the vaults are for. To completely restore the library incase anything goes wrong. But I just wanna be sure before something happens to my computer, and all I have are Vaults that don't do me any good.
Yes, that is what vaults are for. With a vault you can restore everything that was in your library. Remember that referenced photos are not stored in your library and therefore not backed up in a vault. Also remember that the most likely reason to use a vault is because the disk with your library is damaged or unavailable in some way. For instance, my MacBook internal drive bit the dust absolutely, completely, just before Christmas. No booting up; the Apple store couldn't even look at the hard drive by attaching it as a secondary drive to a different computer. If you find yourself in that situation, your vaults in their current state would be completely useless.
nathan

Large aperture library on external drive; too large to move to internal before switching to photos

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I was hoping i could bring it over piecemeal, like by exporting some folders/projects as aperture libraries, and then importing them into photos, but i'm not sure that's possible.
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jpvp wrote:
Hi,
NoisyScott: do I understand it correctly that your masterfiles on the server are just sitting in a folder individually, or are they within an aperture library that is on the server that just has your masterfiles???
And FINALLY: can you back up your referenced files (or versions) as well, and how do you go about that?
My master files are just sitting in folders on the server. I leave the Aperture Library on my laptop hard drive as it just contains thumbnails, previews and the actual Aperture database.
You can back up your master images any way you want; a separate hard drive, a Network Attached Storage device, Mozy.com, Amazon S3, etc. The issue is that backing up these images is now up to you as you can't use the Aperture Vaults with referenced masters.
For what it is worth, moving master images around in Aperture is ridiculously easy once you get used to it. You can Reference your masters to a new location at any time you want, as many times as you like then change your mind and consolidate them to your Aperture Library (and thus make them managed masters again) all without Aperture missing a beat.
The critical thing to remember is you must do any and all Master Image file operations through Aperture.
If you decide to re-organize your Master Image folder structure through the finder, Aperture will no longer be able to connect to those Master Images and you then have to attempt to re-connect the images to the references in the Aperture database. This sounds like it should be easy, but for some reason Aperture has a very difficult time doing this. If you only ever use Aperture to move the files around, everything works swimmingly.
Try all of the Relocate and Consolidate Masters functions with a small test project or two at first until you are comfortable with how you want to organize all of your files and then go for it.
Good luck.

Aperture library on external drive for multiple computers

I would like to store my aperture library and all masters on an external hardrive (with a backup). Ideally I'll be able to only transport this external drive to work to edit photos and return home to my personal computer and continue where I left off. I've tried something similar but ran into problems with lost adjustments, etc and am wondering what the simplest method is that others have discovered.
Cheers

All the editing work is stored in the *****.aplibrary file.
THe most obvious way will be to keep it on the external drive. If you experience it is to slow with USB you could probably have a better performance with FW800. Probably not so much with FW400.
I have no experience with ***-aplibrary on external drive. Probably ist it to slowdown the editing.
The best way to edit on 2 different macs will need in my opinion some extra preparation.
Set both Aperture in exactly the same way pointing to referenced files on the external drive.
Keep the *****.aplibrary file on the HD of the mac you are using and at the end of your work copy it somewhere (may be on the same external HD where you keep the referenced masters). Before starting to work on the second mac copy this ****.aplibrary on it. You will need to do the same reversed to go back to the other mac.
This will probably give you the fastest editing but you will need time to copy the *****.aplibrary files, may be a lot of time. Even if you use a program like Tri-Backup to do the copy you will se that even if the *****-aplibrary has few changes it takes a lot of time to overwrite the older copy.
Keep projects and libraryes as small as possible, or you will waste more time coping it compared to the more speed in editing.
This is only my opinion, and I am not 100% sure of it. I'm giving it to you only as a suggestion you could try and see if it works for you.
Regards
Walter

Aperture Library on External Drive Keeps Locking Up

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I have the aperture library that I created after my most recent wedding shoot on an external hard drive. Since I was importing photos out in the field, I created the library on my external from my laptop. I now want to edit photos on my desktop mac at home, and am able to launch aperture to my wedding library on my external, and browse for up to a few minutes, but then it freezes, and sometimes will unfreeze after a few minutes, but sometimes I am simply forced to force-quit. The external is properly formatted (Extended, Journaled), and is connected via USB 3.0. What could I be doing wrong?
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and browse for up to a few minutes, but then it freezes, and sometimes will unfreeze after a few minutes, but sometimes I am simply forced to force-quit.
Have you repaired the Aperture library after the Force -Quitting? That is strongly recommended.
Next time you launch Aperture, open the Activity viewer (From the Windows menu > Show Activity). This way you will see, which media Aperture is currently processing, when it is starting to hang.
You may have a corrupted video or photo in your library, that cannot be processed and is causing Aperture to hang. You can test that by launching Aperture while holding down the Shift-key. This will defer the generation of preview images. If Aperture does not hang when launched this way, it is very likely, that a corrupted file is causing this, and you have to try to identify it.
If the shift-key does not make a difference, test with a new, empty Aperture library and add a few test images. DO you have the same problem with a different library?

Aperture library on external drive that just died...

Not sure if this is the right place to post, but here goes.
I recently moved my Aperture library to an external firewire drive. I set my Time Machine to back it up from the external drive. Its the only thing I backup from that drive, all other backups come from my built-in interal drive on my iMac. Problem is, I don't remember the name of the drive and where I put the library file. So I am planning to get a new drive and I want to restore it from the backup. Any ideas?
If you know of a better area to post this, please advise.
Thanks

Alfredo,
Is your old drive no longer available?
You can browse your Time Machine backups like a disk in the Finder. Perhaps you can tell, what the name of your old drive and the name of the Aperture Library was. For example, my Backup drive "Lacie RaidBackup" looks like this in a Finder window:
It has a folder "Backups.backupdb" and with in folders for each Computer, then folders for each drives. Here you can see the backed up drives on your machine.
You can search the backup for Aperture libraries:
Select the the backup of your external drive and type ":aplibrary" into the search field, then set the search range to the name of your exterternal HD.
The Path bar at the bottom of the search window will show you the location of your Aperture library.
To restore your Aperture Library from Time Machine, open a Finder Window showing your "Computer" with all drives in "Column View" - set the Finder's Preferences to show all devices in the Sidebar, if you have not already done so:
With this window the frontmost Finder window dive into the Time Tunnel from the TM menulet:
Go back in time, until you are seeing your external drive appear in that window:
If you named your new drive exactly like your old drive, you should be able to restore your library using the "Restore" button .
For more general Information on TM see Pondini's excellent page: Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions
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Léonie

Aperture library on external drive - Aperture not responding

as my laptop filled up - I created an external Aperture library on an external drive - with a matching drive used as a vault - worked fine - then I was deleting images from the laptop library that were also in the library on the external drive and when I re-connected the external library drive Aperture would be unable to start, had to force quit - I can not open the library on the external drive in Aperture - I can open the library on the laptop - but I need the images in the external drive - the vault was updated 6 days ago -
I am in the process of restoring the library from the vault - my question -
can anything be done to open the current library on the external drive? - any kind of work around?

Well, yes and no. When my laptop drive got full, I copied the laptop library to the external 500gb drive and gave it a different name. Then I proceeded to use it as the primary library as I shot 3 weddings. So, yes, I have 2 separate libraries, the one on my laptop and the one on my external drive(s), both have masters (no referenced files), the external drive has everything that the laptop has - the external drive has probably 100 gigs more than the laptop (the laptop has about 85 gigs of files) - I also have a second matching 500gb external drive that backs up the first external drive which is where the vault for the first 500gb drive is located.
I just restored the library from the vault (from December 1) to create yet another new library on another totally spare drive just to see if it would work - that was successful now it is recovering the 41 projects
that were in the vault - it looks to be running pretty smoothly - although the process has so far taken several hours. Recall, however, that this vault backup is 6 days old. The most current library still will not load. This new restored library opens fine. So, there is something corrupted (a bad image perhaps?) in the most current 500gb library that is hanging Aperture.
I still have the original cards that I shot in the past 6 days (about 20 gigs) which were not in the vault, but I did a lot of work with those files and would like to recover the projects from the library
that can't currently open. I have a desktop at my studio and I am thinking I will try opening the problem library (on the 500gb external) there and see what happens.
This whole thing started when I figured I could clear some files from the laptop that were both on the laptop and the external drive. I have done this before to create more working space on my laptop.
Have I clearly answered your questions? - thank you for your P.S. - I didn't know I could get the .approject files out - I may try that -

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i have moved my library to an external hard drive and then deleted content from my computer, now itunes cannot locate library when drive is connected, how do i make itunes work again? i even copied from ext drive back to computer and still no luck, im totally lost

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in iPhoto I get the message "The photo “....jpg” could not be opened, because the original item cannot be found. Then it opens a file browser to point to the file ... but that's of not much use if it resides in the Aperture library!
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ctheisinger,
Welcome to the user-supported Aperture discussion group.
I used the iphoto 11 to Aperture link ... imported some images from Aperture into iphoto.
There is no such thing as "the iPhoto to Aperture link". You are trying to use Aperture and iPhoto together, and that will not work. You should choose one and use only that one. Aperture knows about iPhoto enough to initialize your Aperture library when you first use it. iPhoto knows enough about Aperture to be dangerous. If you use the "Show Aperture Library" function, you should really only use it to temporarily put Aperture photos into an iPhoto library *for the purpose of some function missing from Aperture*, and there are really very few. The only one that I can think of is to use Apple's printing services for cards and calendars, which is not available in Aperture. I.e., don't use both iPhoto and Aperture for digital management.
How can I tell iphoto the new location of the Aperture library for the images which are already referened in iphoto?
That is really an iPhoto question. Someone here with recent ties to iPhoto may be able to help, but we are all Aperture users first, and some posters were iPhoto users.
nathan
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