Using DVDs and Airport Extreme Disk

Hi,
I have all my photos stored on a Hard Drive connected to my Airport Extreme.
My wife has most of her photos stored on a collection of DVDs.
Both of us use our respective laptops to access either the Hard Drive over the Wi-fi or to load up individual DVDs.
Both of us have very limited space on our laptops (hence the DVDs and Hard Drive).
So I have a couple of questions:
Where is the best place to put the Aperture Library file? Locally on my laptop or on the Hard Drive? If I put it locally and take my laptop to a client (without access to my home network) how will/what will I see in Aperture. Guess I'm worried how big the Library file will work.
How does Aperture reference the DVDs? What happens when the DVD is not present in the machine for a particular image and I want to look at it.
I realise these may be elementary questions, but I would appreciate some help
Many thanks in advance
Stewart

Stewart Marshall wrote:
Both of us have very limited space on our laptops (hence the DVDs and Hard Drive).
So I have a couple of questions:
Where is the best place to put the Aperture Library file? Locally on my laptop or on the Hard Drive?
hi, stewart
are your photographs referenced?
I would imagine they are.
If I put it locally and take my laptop to a client (without access to my home network) how will/what will I see in Aperture. Guess I'm worried how big the Library file will work.
How does Aperture reference the DVDs? What happens when the DVD is not present in the machine for a particular image and I want to look at it.
if photos are referenced aperture will show you previews but you will not be able to make adjustments but will be able to work on metadata.
what I do, I have a small (satellite) aperture library inside my mbp for clients for exactly the same reason as you.
when I do meet with the client, I take the client dvd (actually 2 dvds one is a backup in case the first dvd gets injured we can still work -- they are only a first rough, removed all duds like out of focus etc) of photos with me for the meeting. I pretty much only show their photographs in aperture's full screen mode to wow them and I also make a slideshow of the 5 star (the winners) photos to show to the client with music. if off sight (not in studio) I tend to make the meetings at or after sunset for mood.
the main aperture library is on a separate external 7200rpm, 32mb cache, 1tb, esata/fw800 hard drive which I double click to work on in my studio.
btw, you can put a hitachi sata 200gb, 7200rpm, 16mb cache, hard drive on your mbp for more storage to replace the one it came with if it is a smaller drive or slower drive.
as an option I have a small 2.5 inch hitachi fw800/esata 200gb, 7200rpm, 16mb cache, external hard drive that I use only for media (photos, video, music) that is very portable. it's in a small plastic case and has a heat sink and is powered via fw800 to mbp. you can store an aperture library there also and it's fast.
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