referenced masters or library on external drive?

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referenced masters or library on external drive?

My Aperture library with managed masters has outgrown my macbook pro. Is it better to switch to referenced masters on an external drive or move the whole library to an external drive and continue with managed files?

thoughts on this, please...

15" Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jul 23, 2009 2:22 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 23, 2009 4:37 PM in response to xtravoice

Use the relocate masters command and used referenced masters. Keeping your library on one drive and your masters on another has noticeable speed benefits.

It also allows you to keep your library online and do non-editing type work on your library if you want while the masters are offline.

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xtravoice Author

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Jul 23, 2009 4:57 PM in response to Matthew Bergsma

thanks. this is exactly what I was wondering.

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Hamm

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Jul 23, 2009 5:02 PM in response to Matthew Bergsma

Matthew Bergsma wrote:
Keeping your library on one drive and your masters on another has noticeable speed benefits.

I totally agree with that.

I store my files on a ReadyNas Duo that mirrors the images using two hard drives. Gives you some protection when a hard drive dies.

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Answer 4

Jul 23, 2009 5:02 PM in response to xtravoice

No problem, It also allows you to keep your masters in different places on a per project basis - So you can keep current project masters on your internal drive and move them off when you are ready to archive a project.

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