Why is my Aperture 3 libarary so big even when using referenced files?

I noticed a large decrease in HDD space in my finder window since installing Aperture 3 demo.
I checked the Aperture package contents and low and behold- 26GBs of thumbnails for far fewer "items" then I have photos. My entire 28,000 image iphoto library is only 135GBs.
Why does Aperture take up so much space for referenced files? LR does not do this.
I really want to like this program but it's making it hard.
Gene

Remember that AP can also be creating preview files for each of your master images and depending on the size and quality setting that you have set for these in your preferences your AP file will vary in size accordingly.
To check on these settings go to your preferences in the pul down menu/Aperture.
Tony

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Masters in Aperture Library Using Referenced Files

I use a MBP with an SSD to hold my Aperture 3 library.
I use a G-RAID to store my images and use Referenced Files.
All was good until yesterday, I deleted my Thumbnails to recreate them and remove the orphans.
After restarting Aperture and the processing time to recreate the Thumbnails (AP.Minis, Ap.Thumbnails, and AP.Tinies) I noticed my AP library was huge.
After inspecting the contents, there is now 65Gb worth of Masters, why would these be there since I use Referenced files and why would they have just now shown up after rebuilding my Thumbnails?

Remember:
-- A RAW file cannot be edited. It can only be written in a camera (or scanner, etc.) To be seen, it must be read through a RAW developer. The RAW developer (or converter, if you prefer) can apply changes to the bitstream (called "adjustments" in Aperture) but those changes always live in a separate file, called a "version" in Aperture. EVERY master image file in Aperture has at least one version file. The two are combined, in real time, every time you see a file. Thus questions about the Aperture library becoming corrupted are a bit moot - if you lose your library you will lose your edits. The only way to "save" edits to a RAW file is either adjust it in Aperture (or Lightroom) and let the program combine the two, or convert the file to an industry standard format, like TIFF or JPEG.
-- Aperture uses a "non-destructive" workflow. This means that it never really edits ANY file - not even a JPEG. This avoids the problem of recompressing JPEGS each time they are opened and close. So even JPEGS remain unaltered with your "edits" or "adjustments" being stored in one or more versions.
The only time you need to "save" a file in Aperture is when you need a new file in a specific format to give to someone. Until then, Aperture happily keeps track of your original images (managed or referenced) and the corresponding "edits" which it stores in a version linked to the original image file.
There are many reasons to prefer managed over referenced or vice versa, but fears of database integrity should not be one of them. You are making a lot of work for yourself - put the Aperture Vault on your server and/or use Time Machine. "Exporting" is a terrible way to try to make backups - it will take forever and you will end up with files scattered all over the place, defeating the purpose for which you bought Aperture in the first place.
Hope this helps.
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Why is the search and logins fields are black when using AOL

Why is the search and logins fields are black when using AOL??

M3nth,
Seems like we're all asking the same question
As tst says... try not to use the one at the bottom.. it's ... hummm..
It's behavior is unpredictable...
As for the multiple listing I'll have to read Molly's response on this (I asked the same question is the "Xtreme thread")
JLV
=== EDIT ===
Hi Molly,
I read your answer on the bottom search engine..
That's what I thought it did... but it didn't work for me.. I tried to use it to find some of my own posts within LV.. and it didn't find anything.
The search was : serial
I did this while reading a LV question of the subject.
I shall experiment with the search engine again and report my findings.
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Aperture Library Size slowing iMac even when Aperture is closed

I recently purchased an iMac 22 quad core running Lion, with all updates. It currently has 12GB of Ram, and 190GB free on the hard drive.
The iMac would load programs like Outlook within a few seconds and was very fast.
I purchased Aperture and migrated about 38,000 images, using the exisitng file structure from my PC. This took about 12 hours yo process, update images, etc...
Even if Aperture is closed, all programs now load much more slowly. Outlook can take 20-30 seconds to open, and lists of email and contacts now take as much as a minute to load.
This is only true for the user account with the Aperture library, as programs for other users seems to work fine.
I tried running disk utilities, restarting machine, but no difference.
Activity monitor shows no unusual memory, CPU or disk activity.
I started a new user account, and all worked fine again...until I again created an aperture library, and again, even if Aperture is not started, everyting else runs slowly.
Is there a file indexing feature that is overwhelmed by the addition of a large aperture library? (Deleting the Aperture library doe snot solve the problem-only startign a new user accountdoes).

dphughes wrote:
...in both cases maintaining referenced files stored outside the catalog/library. The Aperture library is 500% the size of the Lightroom catalog - even with restricted preview sizes and no vault.
If this is true, there must be a logical explanation that is giving Aperture users some benefit for the increased Library size. Sorry been a long time since I looked at Lightroom. Does it store the same size previews and thumbnails as Aperture? Since you are using referenced files and Aperture is using non-destructive edits and even new versions do not create duplicate files (only a new set of pointers to the referenced masters), one would think previews and thumbnails must be handled differently. Since you use both, what could it be?
The Aperture Vault is a separate library than the Aperture Library so having a Vault of course should not impact the size of the Aperture Library.

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Why is it YouTube loads really slow sometimes even when I'm connected to wifi ?

Why is it YouTube loads really slow sometimes even when I'm connected to wifi ?

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Are you using the youtube app or are you just accessing it via a web browser.

Why is the Lightroom preview folder so big, even after purging the 1:1 previews?

1:1 or full-size previews take up a large amount of HD space, often many 10's of GB's. This is why building them on demand is an alternative to building them up front, and why you have options for auto or manually purging them. That said, it may not always be possible to delete 1:1 previews - more later.
Standard-sized previews are based on the pixel size option you chose in Catalog Settings. You have 4 choices: 1024, 1440, 1680 and 2048. If all you want is standard-sized then choose a size equal to or greater than your screen size. Lr also builds smaller versions at the same time. These are used for the thumbnail, 1:2, 1:3 and 1:4 zoom levels. Adobe call this the "preview pyramid".
1:1 previews will not be deleted unless your chosen standard-sized preview is less than half the size of the full-sized preview. For example, you have images with pixel dimensions of 3072 by 2048 pixels (6MP camera such as Canon 10D) and have selected 1680 pixels for standard-sized previews. Since a 1680 pixel preview is more than half the size of the original the full-sized preview will be kept, even after using the purge 1:1 preview command. Had you chosen 1440 pixel for standard-sized previews then the full-sized would have been purged (i.e. 3072/2=1536, which is greater than 1440). Now take the example of a larger camera, say a 8MP camera such as the Canon 1DMKII with an image size of 3504 by 2336 pixels. With the standard-sized set at 1680 pixels the full-size will again be purged (i.e. 3504/2=1752 pixels, which is greater than 1680 pixels).
Another thing worth mentioning - Lightroom will usually delay purging previews for deleted images until after the application has been closed and reopened, even then it might take a few minutes to clear the purged previews. The idea here is to ensure the previews don't get deleted whilst there's still a chance that they may be needed (e.g. you removed images by mistake then use Undo command to reinstate them).
Hopefully above explains why Lightroom doesn't behave as you expect. If it makes your head spin, think how much mine spun when writing it.

The chance of an answer is inversely proportional to the length of the posting. ;)
You do not indicate what your preview setting was while you accumulated a 12Gb preview folder. Nor do you indicate how many images are in your catalog.
Given your screen size of 1280 (laptp?) I would set the preview size to 1440 since this is still far less than half of your D3 images.
Cropping - I'll safely guess - has no effect on your preview size choices.
I confess that preview sizing and purging is confusing. I avoid the confusion by shouting "more disk, mama".

Why can't I connect to App Store even when I am connected

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Aperture 3 sees external drive differently when used as network drive

I have an Aperture library with 32000 files. When I started running out of disk space on my Macbook Pro I switch from Managed to Reference. I connected my external drive and Aperture moved the images. When I disconnect the drive, connect it to my iMac, and access the drive via my iMac, Aperture shows all my images as offline. I verified in terminal that the path hasn't changed (/Volumes/MyBook750/).
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Hi,
I've been experimenting with Tomcat 5.5 and using Oracle proxy sessions. After many false starts, I finally have something working, but I have a question about some of the code.
My setup:
In <catalina_home>/conf/server.xml I have this section:
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debug="5" reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
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type="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource"
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<res-ref-name>App1ConnectionPool</res-ref-name>
<res-type>oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
And finally, my java code:
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import oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource;
import oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection;
import javax.naming.*;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.util.Properties;
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String message = "Not Connected";
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ResultSet rst = null;
Statement stmt = null;
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Context envContext = (Context) initContext.lookup("java:/comp/env");
OracleDataSource ds = (OracleDataSource) envContext.lookup("App1ConnectionPool");
message = "Here.";
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throw new Exception("Error: No Context");
if (ds == null)
throw new Exception("Error: No DataSource");
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message = "Trying to connect...";
conn = (OracleConnection ) ds.getConnection("app1","app1");
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prop.put("PROXY_USER_NAME", "xxx/yyy");
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//rst = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT 'Success obtaining connection' FROM DUAL");
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stmt.close();
stmt = null;
conn.close(); // Return to connection pool
conn = null; // Make sure we don't close it twice
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
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try {
rst.close();
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stmt.close();
} catch (SQLException e) {
stmt = null;
if (conn != null) {
try {
conn.close();
} catch (SQLException e) {
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conn = (OracleConnection ) ds.getConnection("app1","app1");
Why do I need to pass in the user name/password? Other examples, that I see simply have:
conn = (OracleConnection ) ds.getConnection();
But when I use this code, I get the following error:
java.sql.SQLException: invalid arguments in call
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     at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:146)
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... more follows, but I trimmed to keep posting shorter :-)
Is there anyway that I can avoid having to pass the user/password to getConnection()? It seems that I should be able to control the user/password used to establish the connection pool directly in the server.xml file and not have to supply it again in my java code. In earlier experiments when I was using "import java.sql.*" and using it's DataSource, I can use getConnection() without having to pass user/password, but then the Oracle Proxy methods don't work.
I'm a java newbie so I guess that I should be happy that I finally figured out how to get proxy connections working. However it seems that I am missing something and I want this code to be as clean as possible.
If anyone can point me to a better method of using connection pools and proxy sessions, I would appreciate it.
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Hi,
Thanks for the replies.
Avi, I'm not really sure what you are getting at with the setConnectionProperties. I looked at the javadoc and saw that I can specify user/password, but since I'm using a connection pool, shouldn't my Datasource already have that information?
Maro, your comment about not having set the user/password for the Datasource is interesting. Are you referring to setting it in the server.xml configuration file? As you can see I did specify it in addition to setting the URL. In my code example, I'm not having to respecify the URL, but maybe I have a typo in my config file that is causing the username/password not to be read properly??
The other weird thing is that I would have expected to see a pool of connections for user App1 in V$SESSION, but I see nothing. If I use a utility to repeatedly call a JSP page that makes use of my java example, then I do see v$session contain brief sessions for App1 and ADAVEY (proxy). The response time of the JSP seems much quicker than I would have expected if there wasn't some sort of physical connection already established though. Maybe this is just more evidence of not having my server.xml configured properly?
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Hello one and all:
I am trying to test WLS with SSL. I am using the OpenSSL package to act as my
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with this part.
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(<path-to-key hidden for publication --scott>),
java.io.IOException: Length is too big: takes 56 bytesI have read many messages on this group that indicate this same
problem. Some of the suggestions included checking the formatting
of the server key file for extra linefeeds, etc. I have done this.
I even tried the OpenSSL "asn1-kludge" option. It didn't work
either.
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Hi.
I had the same problem when i specified a cakey.pem file that was encrypted. For
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[email protected] (Scott Andrew Borton) wrote:
Using WLS 5.1, SP6, Solaris
Hello one and all:
I am trying to test WLS with SSL. I am using the OpenSSL package to act
as my
own CA and generate and sign my own server certs. I don't have any problem
with this part.
However, when I try to use my private key with WLS, I get this
error upon startup:
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at weblogic.security.ASN1.ASN1Header.inputLength(ASN1Header.java:133)
at weblogic.security.ASN1.ASN1Header.input(ASN1Header.java:105)
at weblogic.security.RSAPrivateKey.input(RSAPrivateKey.java:107)
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at weblogic.t3.srvr.SSLListenThread.<init>(SSLListenThread.java:285)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.SSLListenThread.<init>(SSLListenThread.java:214)
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at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
at weblogic.NmsIpServer.main(NmsIpServer.java:13)
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(<path-to-key hidden for publication --scott>),
java.io.IOException: Length is too big: takes 56 bytesI have read many messages on this group that indicate this same
problem. Some of the suggestions included checking the formatting
of the server key file for extra linefeeds, etc. I have done this.
I even tried the OpenSSL "asn1-kludge" option. It didn't work
either.
So, I hope to hear from someone who has successfully used OpenSSL
keys and certs with WLS.
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--scott

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