Vault - POINTLESS (!) ?

I have been running Aperture quite happily for a very long time.
- have another (2nd) external hard drive running just Time Machine;
- have another (3rd) external hard drive Just for Aperture VAULT.
have been making lots of projects, and when finished duitifully hit the 'back up vault' button, it spins all done, and thought nothing more of it (safe ! in the knowledge that Vault had run and gone green, all backed up)
I recently 'cleaned up' my main MAC desktop, and started another few Aperture projects and kept VAULT backing up, same as before.
*TO MY UTTER DISMAY* all the previous projects have 'gone' from the vault (3rd external drive), and only the most recent (post Mac DESKTOP clean up) are there.. the VAULT is virtually EMPTY !
Where have they all gone ?
*what is the POINT of VAULT* if it is not a true back up (like Time machine?) !!
- is there 'anywhere' else on the historic 'desktop' time machine that they MIGHT be stored (perhaps a hidden folder) if i go Back through my Time Machine drive?
PLEASE HELP !!

Not sure on the vault issue as I don't currently use it.
If you did not specifically exclude the Aperture Library in the Time Machine preferences, then you should have that package available in the Time Machine interface.
It should be in whatever location you keep the library (default being '~/Pictures' folder). You need to run Time Machine from that location and you can restore the library.
Note - I would recommend renaming your current library and moving it to another location (to prevent issues during restore). Then run the Time Machine restore from the historical date you know will contain all your images.

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- vault is not incremental. Thus, when you update
the vault (backup) you are effectively creating a
whole new backup to replace the one you had already.
It is incremental. I know, because I have created a vault and it only backs up what has changed, not the whole library. Very quick too. Not sure how you came up with this hypothesis. Have you tried to do this yet ?
Aperature architecture. Ok, so how do I go about
getting my newly imported files 'exported' as RAW
files to my DVD for backup purposes? I don't have
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2) Copy the images off the CF card, using Finder, to a local directory on your hard disk. Copy this directory off to a DVD for peace of mind. Now tell Aperture to import this directory into your library. After the import is complete, delete this directory.
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Ok, here is the issue.
I work remotely on a laptop and my main library and vault are on my home computer.
I only keep the last couple of projects on the laptop and use the vault to backup those projects. I used managed files.
When I get home from the road, I export/import the projects to the home machine and master library to do further work and use vault on an external for backup.
So, on the laptop, I will delete projects to make more space on the hdd and I dont need them on the laptop any longer (they are already in the master library and vault at home).
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Is there any way to do this? Shouldnt the vault basically just back up the library and when something is deleted from the library it should be deleted from the vault as well?
As it is, I need to delete the entire vault when it fills the external and create a whole new one after deleting the projects from the library.
Is there an easier way?

I have not contacted AppleCare, but will if this is how its working for others.
Have you tried this and are sure it is working that way? After all, last week after deleting three projects from the laptop and main library and then updating the vault, I had a vault that was over 80 gigs in size while the library was now less than 20 gigs in size.
After deleting the vault and starting a new one, the new vault was approximately the same size as the library, actually slightly smaller like it is with the master vaults at home with the main library.
I have twice now had my external fill up with the vault while I had been constantly deleting old projects on the laptop. So it just seemed to keep adding new stuff to the vault, but not get rid of the old that I was deleting.

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iMac 24" (aluminum)
3.06GHz Core2 Duo
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Nope. Still crashes.
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This is awkward. Right... I have used Aperture since it came out.
In fact, after all these failures, you should try the rebuilding your library first.
Hold down Option and Command when launching Aperture, though you couldn't back up your files... which was recommended by Apple before you rebuild it.
It should correct and repair any broken links or permissions. See if it works.
After, you can simply COPY and not MOVE the library to the external HD. Do you use Firewire? It's much better and reliable. After the library is copied, point Aperture to use the external HD in preference. Close and reopen, it should open the library from the external HD.
The better bet is to make sure you are using an external HD with Firewire 800. I have some experience with USB2 drives when Aperture crashes a lot. It may seem some kind of bandwidth problem which I couldn't understand. It seems find with small jpg files but if you start importing RAW or do something with the RAW files, USB drives always fail.
I have moved my library to an external drive since Aperture 2 as my library has grown beyond the internal capacity. My standard practice is now, after working the files, export them in TIFF or JPG, export the 'Project' with the RAW files to DVDs, remove from the library and re-import the JPGs back to keep the library size. Also I keep two faults in separate locations.
I hope it works.
J

How long should it take for a new vault to be created?

I have a late 2009 27" iMac i7 with 16GB of RAM. I use referenced masters. The masters are located on a Drobo connected with FW 800. The internal drive on the iMac is a 1TB drive. The Aperture library is located on that drive and is 158.39 GB. I have about 110,000 master images. Most of them are RAW files shot with a succession of Nikon bodies (D100, D200, D300, and D400). I am in the process of moving a vault off of the Drobo and onto another external hard drive. I started the vault creation on Friday morning (3 days, 6 hours ago) and Aperture shows that it is still working on it.
I have read the germane threads and have given it over three days now to complete. There is very little, if any, progress on the visual indicator that the task is nearing completion. It shows the job as about halfway done. However, Aperture still shows as responding in the Force Quit menu. Aperture is currently using up 11.2 GB of available RAM. Normally, I don't have any memory swaps. Now, page ins are 13,418,681, page outs are 7,226,523, and swaps are at 43.70 GB. CPU utilization shows Aperture consistently at about 170% of capacity.
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How do I know if Aperture is actually doing something or is it stuck in an infinite loop? What are the repercussions of doing a force quit? How long should I wait to see if it will actually finish on its own accord?
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Rick-
You are not being ignored. I for one just do not know what to say because it depends on how badly you need the use of the Mac and how at-risk your data are. One thought would be to just use the Mac (letting Aperture page out while other apps use the RAM) but that is a risk if the RAM is frozen for some reason. It does sound like you may have a memory leak.
HollidayPhotography wrote:
iMac i7 with 16GB of RAM. I use referenced masters. The internal drive on the iMac is a 1TB drive... ...I am in the process of moving a vault off of the Drobo and onto another external hard drive.
What I do not understand is what you mean by "moving a vault off the Drobo." I would think that if you are making a new Vault that would involve the internal drive and the new drive, no major interaction with the very slow Drobo except to point to Masters there (I could be wrong).
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