Q: Pointing to the Aperture Database Over a Pipe or NAS
Does anyone know if it's possible to point to an Aperture database file over a pipe, say like Tonido, or NAS tthat has the preimary Aperture DB on it, to view from another laptop remotely? I want do more than simply pipe in to look at files, but actually set up an arragnment that makes my primary Aperture DB location agnostic. Using Flickr or FB is too much work and Photosteam does not, evidently, let you select specific folders to share.
Thanks...
John Sevic
MacBook Air, iOS 5.0.1
Posted on Feb 4, 2013 8:20 PM
John,
the necessary conditions as defined by Apple are defined in this article - and those exclude a network based volume: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library
If you absolutely must: this article describes how to move a photo library (iPhoto or Aperture) to a disk image for sharing: iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users
But as William Lloyd said - it is error prone and likely to cause trouble in the future. I would not trust my important images to such a setup.
Since you only want to share certain projects - why not use Aperture's built-in features for sharing over the network?
If you have Aperture 3.4.x and Mt. Lion, you can send her the baby picture's as a Shared Photo Stream and add to this stream, as you see fit, see iCloud: Using and troubleshooting Shared Photo Streams
Or open your Aperture library as an iPhoto Library: You can set up an iPhoto Library to share the Photos over a network to be browsed or imported by others from the Preferences panel:
See: iPhoto '11: Share your photos among computers on a network
Regards
Leonie
Posted on Feb 4, 2013 10:51 PM