Re: Aperture and storing files on external

Hi.
After reading this thread I guess I done something stupid...
I have a MBP mid 2009 with 500GB drive. I use Aperture for my photos but some time ago I run out of space on the internal disk. So after reading a bit about Aperture being capable to handle multiple library I marked a bunch of projects/events in Aperture library and exported as a new external library on an external disk. So far so god, I thought....
But now I'm getting close to running out of space again on the internal drive, so my plan was to mark more projects/events and export them in to the same external library that I created earlier, like fill it up a bit more to free more space on my MBP.
But, I haven't really found out how it can be done, or if it can be done. And now after reading this tread and the posts talking about +reference masters+ and not, I start wondering if I did something really stupid when I exported to a external drive as a new library.
How should I do now to get back on track, the right track again? So that I end up with my projects/events pictures on an external drive freeing space on my MBP and get everything right regardig the reference masters, so that I easily can manage my library in the future when it grow?
I'm not so experienced with Aperture so explain to me as for a three year old, as Tom Hanks said...

Well, now I have fiddle around a bit with all the explanations and recommendations I've got from you guys, and so far so good I guess.
I started with opening Aperture and the external library and Photos and selected them all , then used Relocate Masters to a newly created folder named Aperture Masters.
Then when it was completed I have to switch to the internal library and again used Relocate Masters, after selected all those photos to the same folder as the last one.
Now I had enough space on my internal disk to bring the external library with pointers (as some one called them) back in to my internal disk. But when I tried to Merge the to "pointer libraries" together something went wrong, because Aperture freezed halfway through the progress and I had to force it to close after some hours waiting without any sign of life from Aperture. I tried it again but the same result, it frooze. So I had to try with Add Library instead, and that worked. But suddenly many of the project was doublettes. But after checking them it was clear that of to of the same project folders, just one was a complete and correct one. The other one lacked some of the EXIF-info and some of the photos. And when I checked it up in the folder Aperture Masters there was not two copies of those folders. So I'll guess that fenomena was caused of Aperture freezing during my tries to merge the to libraries toghether.
Now I have some therapy work with going through all the projects to find those which there are to of the same, and then check which one of them to delete, then I'll have everything sorted out I'll guess. And finally end up with all the masters on my external disk and still one complete "pointer library" on my internal disk, and plenty of free space on my internal disk again.
Thank's for the help guys

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Hi hallm74 -- welcome to the user-to-user Aperture forum. Lots and lots of good stuff here -- be sure to search the forum.
There is a conceptual hurdle to what you want to do, but in practice it is easy to do and easy to maintain. Aperture contains direct, useful, and bug-free tools for moving and linking to your Masters.
It is vital that you understand the difference between a Managed Master and a Referenced Master:
+ [If the original image file|http://discussions.apple.com/messageview.jspa?messageID=13124533&stqc=true] is contained within your Library, it is called a *Managed Master* (Aperture's pointer to this file, and the file itself, are both inside the Library). If the original image file is not contained within your Library, it is called a *Referenced Master* (the pointer in your Aperture Library points to a file outside your Aperture Library). +
Additional information about Managed and Referenced Masters can be found in this section of the Users Manual: [What Are Managed Images and Referenced Images?|http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapte r=3%26section=1%26tasks=true]
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