Using Aperture on a Network Attached Drive (Drobo)

I have been working with Aperture on my internal hard drive, but it has grown to a size that has consumed most of my hard drive space. I used the +Relocate Masters+ function in Aperture to move all of my Projects to my Drobo (attached to my system over ethernet, via DroboShare).

After closing Aperture and restarting, everything opens fine, and all of my images seem to be there. However, a number of standard features and functions do not seem to work:

- I cannot print images. Blank pages are all that come out from images who's Masters are located on the Network drive. Images who's Masters are still local to the hard drive print normally.

- I cannot edit images who's Masters are located on the Network drive.

The conclusion is that I cannot use Aperture in this way. They make it clear that you cannot use the Vault over the network, but since Aperture allowed me to Relocate the Masters to the network drive, and I can still see all the images, I assumed that other functionality would work normally.


If someone can confirm my suspicions, or can provide suggestions on something else I need to do, that assistance would be appreciated.