My Aperture Library is over 53gb!!!

OK, I think this is odd. I have about 75,000 pics and store them on an external drive. My Aperture Library is on the same drive, but no pics are stored in the Library, just in the original location. Why would my Aperture Library be over 53GB in size??? Can this be reduced somehow??

thats pretty accurate...one of my libraries is almost that exact size, (both image and library-wise). Keep in mind that the referenced masters are just the raw files (or whatever format you shoot in), but your aperture library is storing all information for metadata, thumbnails, additional versions, etc...so you're talking about information for 75k images.
no need to reduce it as it is accurate. there is a thread about how rebuilding thumbnails has effectively made some libraries smaller by a pretty substantial amount (this is due to a fix in the 3.02 update as the prior version was causing thumbnails to take up more space than necessary). I would do this at your own risk however...i tried it on another library that was 6GB, and after the rebuild the library grew to 9.35GB, so best case scenario is you could wind up with a somewhat smaller library size, but worst case is you wind up with a much bigger library.

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