Q: Importing library to Aperture 3.3: not enough free space

I am trying to import an iPhoto Library (9.3) into a brand new, blank Aperture 3.3 library, but I am getting the following error message: "The library could not be imported because there is not enough free space on your current Aperture Library volume."

That's impossible because the library is actually around 70 GB in size; my hard disk itself is 750 GB so it's impossible for my iPhoto Library to requre 1821.95 GB of space!

I understand the file format of both iPhoto 9.3 and Aperture 3.3 library are the same; but everything else still seems to think it's an iPhoto Library by default...

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Posted on Jun 18, 2012 1:12 AM

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by darenrobbins,

darenrobbins Jul 14, 2012 10:20 AM in response to léonie
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Jul 14, 2012 10:20 AM in response to léonie

Leonie, wow, thanks for the heads-up. I wouldn't have caught that until months down the road. Luckily I hadn't dispensed of my original Aperature library and using Catnip's solution was able to merge my two libraries together.
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léonie Jul 14, 2012 10:29 AM in response to darenrobbins
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Jul 14, 2012 10:29 AM in response to darenrobbins

Great, good to know, that you did not loose any image quality
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by Earthling7,

Earthling7 Jul 16, 2012 8:31 AM in response to mintchocicecream
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Jul 16, 2012 8:31 AM in response to mintchocicecream

Just want to chime in. "1896.37 GB is needed, but only 464.40 GB is available."

iPhoto library is 106GB and contains 25.000 images. It's on an external disk, as I'm rebuilding everything after a hard drive crash. I guess I'll wait for an upgrade from Apple before doing this.
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doctor jay78 Jul 16, 2012 10:52 AM in response to mintchocicecream
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Jul 16, 2012 10:52 AM in response to mintchocicecream

Same problem here (56GB to 380 GB)...
Tried to rebuild the iphoto library but only made things worse...
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doctor jay78 Aug 2, 2012 11:04 PM in response to mintchocicecream
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Aug 2, 2012 11:04 PM in response to mintchocicecream

The latest aperture update (3.3.2) seems to solve the problem for me, with only a slight increase from 56GB to 73GB (down from 380GB).
Give it a try...
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