Vault Restore Library not enabled

My primary disk went bad. I am trying to restore from a vault, but the 'restore vault' option is not enabled. In fact the only option is add new vault, none of the other vault actions are enabled. I did previously try to restore the vault to another drive, but ran out of space, now the options are not available.
Thanks
Sam

ok... go in to aperture and open the preferences.
Up near the top, you should see the location of your aperture library... i think this is usually set to:
startup disk/user/pictures/aperturelibary
let me know what drive this is on and i'll help you out.

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I just opened iMovie for the first time in many months, and I'm not able to replicate anything like what you're seeing. iMovie did tell me that it needed to update the Aperture thumbnails, but the thumbnails were all fine, both in iMovie and again when I opened Aperture.
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Hello,
HD in my Macbook pro died and I just replaced it -- I updated all of the data using time machine, however, I had a library of photos on Aperture that were much newer than my most recent TimeMachine backup and so I'd like to simply restore my Library from the vault. I have tried the following:
I connected the hard disk drive that contains the most up-to-date vault to my computer and opened Aperture.
I chose File > Vault > Restore Library. The Restore Library dialog appeared.
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I clicked Restore
The only problem is that after I complete step 5, nothing happens-- the dialog box closes and there is no indication that Aperture is restoring anything.
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The photos are managed in the Aperture Library, that is to say they are not referenced. Aperture's library is located on the MacBook Pro internal HD. I use 3 Western Digital 500 GB USB-2 drives to vault Aperture's Library. One is kept in a safety deposit box (red), but it has not been updated in a few months. The other two drives are kept in my home. One is used on a weekly basis (black), while the other is updated monthly (blue). I restored from the blue drive, but I could try the black drive to see if it is affected also. It just takes several hours to restore from these drives and my confidence with the vault protection of my photos is shaken. My photo library is about 400 GB in size.
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Can i return files from vault to library

I have only been using Aperture for about a week and my little macmini ran out of space last night with all the RAW files I have been importing. So i thought here is a good time to create a vault on my external hd, transfer the aperture library to that and then delete the library inside the mac. I thought that I could then be able to access all the files from the external hd in Aperture when I turned it on so I can get to the old photos again.
Well, I expect i am doing something wrong but I can't get to the files now through Aperture. So I thought lets start again and transfer the Vault back into the library. But the vault just copied back into the Pictures folder in Finder and I can't seem to do very much with those files. I'm not worried yet. I can still see the original files are there with the full sizes, but I can't get them back into Aperture.
Also, of course because I deleted the library, all my projects, albums etc in aperture have gone. If I can return the original library will the projects return as they were?
Could anybody please point me in the right direction?

danbeard wrote:
I have only been using Aperture for about a week and my little macmini ran out of space last night with all the RAW files I have been importing. So i thought here is a good time to create a vault on my external hd, transfer the aperture library to that and then delete the library inside the mac.
you can copy the aperture library directly to your external HD without making a vault.
a better workflow would be to buy a second external HD and to dedicate one of them for the vault and one for the aperture library, just make sure they're the same size HD, brand and chipset
I thought that I could then be able to access all the files from the external hd in Aperture when I turned it on so I can get to the old photos again.
the first time you (after the transfer to new HD) open/access your aperture library from the new HD double click on the aperture library to open it, or, aperture will prompt you to locate it when it sees it's not at it's usual place
Well, I expect i am doing something wrong but I can't get to the files now through Aperture. So I thought lets start again and transfer the Vault back into the library.
not sure what you mean by this
But the vault just copied back into the Pictures folder in Finder and I can't seem to do very much with those files. I'm not worried yet. I can still see the original files are there with the full sizes, but I can't get them back into Aperture.
Also, of course because I deleted the library, all my projects, albums etc in aperture have gone. If I can return the original library will the projects return as they were?
yes you can. the vault has all that if the photographs were Masters and Versions stored in the library, Referenced masters are not backed up in the vault with the library.
Could anybody please point me in the right direction?
yes, you might consider reading the section on Vaults in the aperture manual, i can tell by your post you do not understand the library-vault (backup) hd, relationship.
in a nutshell, you work in a aperture library and have multiple vaults (backups) on multiple hard drives, so, should your main hard drive which stores your aperture library ever fail you would then File>vault>restore library
victor

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I tried restore library using a 2.1.4 version vault in version 3.1.2 not all the pictures transferred; how can I fix it, I have 13,195 pictures?

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I've had three disappointing experiences today with Aperture. Two are minor, but the third is a major issue. The first minor issue relates to an unexpected image size limit for export (see thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=340789&tstart=0 )
The second (minor) disappointment was an incomplete "undo" when I made a mistake while editing a book. In this case, I used a solid color as a background for captions (for highlight) on each photo. I imported this solid color as an image (in the image browser) and copied it to a photo placeholder located behind each caption. This was a 90 page book with ~150 captions. I accidentally deleted the color "image" and all the highlights disappeared in the book. I immediately completed the "undo" command, which returned the color "image" back to the browser. Unfortunately, it did not put the highlight colors back into each of the 150 captions, so I had to drag the color back into each placeholder box individually (not a big deal, but not much of an "undo" either!
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Yesterday, I tried to restore my Aperture Library from a Vault. But the process would not complete because one of the files would not copy. In my view, the Restore function should continue with all the other stuff in the Vault, but it just quits. So, in these circumstances, the Restore Library fails and the Vault becomes useless as a secure storage device.
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Background: I just recently had to wipe my hard drive clean. I first backed up my library using Aperture's "vaults" system and put them on two external drives and stupidly the RAW files no where else. I realize now that I lost all of my RAW files, but seeing as how I just started shooting RAW around a year ago, I'm hoping to salvage the JPEGS and move on from there. I have no idea wether my library was referenced or managed (I still don't remember the difference and it makes me mad that I should have to go through all this trouble just to organize my photos!) and this is part of the reason I'm moving away from Aperture (it's so complicated and disorganized!).
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I realized I've already lost a lot, I really hope I can save what I KNOW I BACKED UP! Any Aperture experts would greatly be appreciated. I've talked to many people and not a whole lot of headway has been. HELP!

Mr D.
I understand I can't get the RAW files back, since I did back up my entire (managed) library to vaults, I'm assuming that the JPEG copies or whatever I was looking at in the library (not the masters) would be backed up.
Ok. You half-answered the question. We should take it to be true that you cannot get the RAWs back?
Aperture does generate thumbnails for use within Aperture. Thumbnails are stored in some proprietary formatted files I think. (Note there is no real documentation for end-users about the topics in this conversation.) It may also generate previews based on your preferences. The previews are in fact small JPG versions of your files. I was quite surprised the other day to find that Aperture does back up some of these items to a vault. I was surprised because, as a software engineer, I saw no benefit to backing up both the photos, and the low-res thumbnails of the photos. After all, in normal circumstances, you will just be wasting backup space, as you can regenerate the thumbnails and previews from the originals in the case of a normal vault restore. Now I see that your non-normal case may be why it works this way. Of course, I do not know if the thumbnails are actually restored. I just know what I saw when I looked in my vault.
So the bad news: you may be able to find the previews and/or thumbnails but it will be difficult to find them, and you will have to do all the work.
Note, that what I am about to tell you is dangerous. If you change anything, you will wreck your Aperture library. Reading (Ie., copying) is ok. Writing (Ie.., deleting, moving, changing) is not ok.
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