Workflow Questions - Same Aperture Library on two machines - Sync ?

Ok, So now that 1.1 is out I copied my Aperture library to my new MacBookPro, updated to v1.1, loaded the program ... and Bam, my library is there and working perfectly (after the Migrate process).
So now, I have my libarary on my Desktop Dual Power PC machine at home and also on my MBP in the field ... I'm in heaven!
My question is this. If I make a bunch of updates to the library (adding new images, new projects, new albums, rating new and existing images, assigning keywords, etc) on my MBP while sitting at Starbucks or laying on the beach is there any way to go home and sync these changes with the library on desktop machine?
I realize that if I do all my work on the MBP in a new Project and then export that project I can then import it into the machine at home ... but that only solves 1/2 my problem ... how do I deal with projects and albums that already exist on both machines?
Copying the entire Aperture Library back and forth is an option but at 40GB and growing that does not seem like a lot of fun.
Any ideas? Even a 3rd party app would be cool if it worked. Would something like ChronoSync see inside the Aperture Library container and deal with changed items?
Thanks,
A happy v1.1 MBP user
Power PC G5, Dual 2 Gz, 3.5 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.3) MacBookPro, 2.16GHz, 2 GB RAM

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My question is this. If I make a bunch of updates to
the library (adding new images, new projects, new
albums, rating new and existing images, assigning
keywords, etc) on my MBP while sitting at Starbucks
or laying on the beach is there any way to go home
and sync these changes with the library on desktop
machine?
I realize that if I do all my work on the MBP in a
new Project and then export that project I can then
import it into the machine at home ... but that only
solves 1/2 my problem ... how do I deal with projects
and albums that already exist on both machines?
Copying the entire Aperture Library back and forth is
an option but at 40GB and growing that does not seem
like a lot of fun.
Any ideas? Even a 3rd party app would be cool if it
worked. Would something like ChronoSync see inside
the Aperture Library container and deal with changed
items?
<...>
Aha! That (file sync) is exactly the first thought I had when I read your post (though I personally was thinking RSyncX, Chrono Sync may be easier to use).
To many programs the Aperture library looks just like a directory, which it really is - Finder and a few other things treat is specially but usually the origins of file synchronization tools are more UNIX utilities that just see the Aperture library and projects therein as a series of directories.
In particular, what you'd be looking for this tool to update are:
* Import directories in exisitng projects with new images and updated sidecar/XML files.
* Added folders and albums
* (most important) new copy of the Aperture database.
All of these things are just files so it should be very easy for the sync utilitiy to find they are newer on the laptop and copy them over.
Now what will not work well with this approach would be to edit files on the laptop and the desktop at the same time, and then attempt to syncronize them - but if you are only using one at a time you should not have issues.
I would make a small sample library in both places to test this approach against but I see no reason why it should not work.
The only other approach really would be shuttling projects back and forth between systems, which you may have to do someday if your desktop library exceeds the capacity of the laptop.

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I tried restoring from Time macinie from a few days earlier. Took about 1.5 hours to restore, but when opening Aperture, the library showes still the empty 2012 Project folders and the new Scrapbooking Project just created yesterday is still there!!!
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