Vault Size/contents ZERO

I created a vault on an external drive, of my 89G Aperture Library.
After it created the vault...the contents and size equaled that of the actual library.
Start and restart Aperture and the Vault status icon is yellow, telling me there has been changes in my library, which there hasn't. So i go and check Vault size, and much to my dismay it says Zero bytes on disk and no package contents.
I click update vault in aperture, does it's comparing for a bit, then finishes with no errors.
Vault status icon is black (stating everything is up to date) but Vault is still Zero Bytes and no contents.
Any ideas!?
Thanks.
kevin

The vault should be smaller: no previews or thumbnails are stored in a vault. So that is odd.
How are you measuring the size of the vault and library?
How is your external drive formatted? If it is not HFS+ case insensitive then all bets are off. That is also called Mac OS Extended case insensitive.

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