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What is in Properties.apdb?

I think I have a drive going bad, the one with my Aperture library on it. I am trying to copy the library from the drive to another and it stops on the file Database/Properties.apdb. I have a vault and it has the same filename in it but the date&time on the file in the vault is one minute later than what my library has and it is smaller, 174MB versus 205MB. I don't think I've done anything in Aperture since I last updated the vault but I'm not 100% positive.

Anyway, before I do anything my question is: what is the properties.apdb file? What is in it?