Q: Using Aperture on Network Attached Storage

Apple advises against storing the Aperture library on a Network volume:

See this Support article:

Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3252

So no guarantees given, if you proceed ...

Regards

Léonie

Hello Peter,

the problem ist, that remote access to the Aperture library is not guaranteed to be safe - Aperture is no network database and no shared database designed for multi user access, some users do it nevertheless, and get away with it, but I will certainly give no recommendation to do so.

What you might try, however, is to relocate the master image files onto a network drive and keep the library itself on a local volume.

Regards

Peter,

Aperture accesses the disk a lot, and if you try to have your entire library remote (if it does work), it will most certainly be unacceptably slow.

As Leonie recommended, putting your master images on a network drive, while your library is on your "traveling" computer will allow you view thumbnails (and previews).  You can show people your work, make slideshows, and do keywording/rating without being connected to the masters.  You cannot do any adjustments, though, as that requires the master.

nathan