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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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