Testing Vault Integrity?

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Testing Vault Integrity?

I am replacing an external HD holding my Aperture Vault because the drive is showing signs of failing.

I've copied the Vault from the old drive onto the new one using SuperDuper! and everything looks fine. I opened Aperture, and it recognizes the vault and is ready to copy updates into it.

My question: before I zero out the old drive and thereby destroy the "old" vault, is there any way short of restoring some files from the new vault to test its integrity? Perhaps the broader question is: how do you test the integrity of your vault?

Thanks for any ideas.

Terry

iMac 20" Core Duo; 2GB RAM; MacBook 2.4 ghz Core 2 Duo 2 GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Aperture 2.1.4

Posted on Oct 29, 2009 6:58 AM

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Answer 1

Tony Gay

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Oct 29, 2009 5:31 PM in response to Tunesmith

Me I would not copy the vault, I would leave the original where it was and just create a new vault on the new "MACOS Formatted" drive. OK this may take a little while but, you then know that this is a current and working vault, with the added benefit of a fall back on the old drive.

Tony

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Answer 2

Oct 30, 2009 11:15 PM in response to Tunesmith

I will second what Tony said: create a new Vault.

Mihalis.

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Answer 3

Oct 31, 2009 6:22 AM in response to Tunesmith

Make that three votes for a new vault.

DLS

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Answer 4

Tunesmith Author

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Nov 1, 2009 6:44 AM in response to DLScreative

Thanks to each of you three "voters." I took your advice and all worked fine with a new vault in place on the new drive. I'm quite sure the copied vault was OK, but why take chances?

I'm still surprised there's not some form of data integrity check for vaults and may suggest it to Apple via Feedback. Anyway, I examined various imports in both the copied version and the re-done vault that replaced it. I was able to explore various dates and see that the images were there--the usual confidence builders. Perhaps that's all we really need (provided we have several vaults in several locations including one offsite).

Terry

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