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Q: There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need at least 4GB of free space.

I have over 250 GB free space yet aperture still tells me i nedd more than 4 BG when importing my pictures (2 gb ) from iphoto library to apertura library ???

Any suggestions ??

Posted on Jan 23, 2012 4:36 AM

by léonie,Solvedanswer
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A:

Good Luck,

here is some information by Apple with respect to external volumes to host your Aperture Library:

 

Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3252

 

Léonie

Posted on Jan 23, 2012 5:46 AM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jan 23, 2012 4:47 AM in response to donabbasi
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    Jan 23, 2012 4:47 AM in response to donabbasi

    Hello,

    where is your Aperture Library located and what are your import settings?

    If your Library is on an external drive, is enough free space on that external?

    Check in the import panel, what you told Aperture where to store the imported images:

     

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    If you choose:" in the Aperture library", make sure there is enough space on the volume with the Library, if you choose to relocate to  a different volume, check the free space on that volume.

     

    Regards

    Léonie

  • by donabbasi,

    donabbasi donabbasi Jan 23, 2012 4:58 AM in response to léonie
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    Jan 23, 2012 4:58 AM in response to léonie

    Just changed the apertura library location to my extern hard drive where i have more than enough space but i get the same message !!!

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jan 23, 2012 5:05 AM in response to donabbasi
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    Jan 23, 2012 5:05 AM in response to donabbasi

    Just changed the apertura library location

    And did you open Aperture on the new Library in the new location ( that is best done by double clicking the icon of the library), so that Aperture points to the new location?

     

    Also,are your import settings like I have shown in the screenshot above?

     

    Otherwise Aperture may still try to store the images on your system drive.

     

    Regards

    Léonie

  • by donabbasi,

    donabbasi donabbasi Jan 23, 2012 5:14 AM in response to donabbasi
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    Jan 23, 2012 5:14 AM in response to donabbasi

    it's so frustrating, i simply cant see what im doing wrong, or where the problem is : Im sure a have enough space an im doing it right : File --> import -->Iphoto Library

                                  Store files in Apertura Library

  • by donabbasi,

    donabbasi donabbasi Jan 23, 2012 5:19 AM in response to léonie
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    Jan 23, 2012 5:19 AM in response to léonie

    yes i just did ! But still the same answer :-(

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jan 23, 2012 5:20 AM in response to donabbasi
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    Jan 23, 2012 5:20 AM in response to donabbasi

    File --> import -->Iphoto Library

                                  Store files in Apertura Library

    Yes, that is exactly what you need to do, but make sure that that Aperture uses the correct library on your external drive.

     

    Did Aperture really open your library in its new location? Do you see all your old images?

  • by donabbasi,

    donabbasi donabbasi Jan 23, 2012 5:30 AM in response to léonie
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    Jan 23, 2012 5:30 AM in response to léonie

    I did remove the Apertura 3 library from my External hard drive because it says that it's not a suported file, that's a nother problem now. Anyway i created a new Apertura library on my desktop double clicked on the library to be sure that I opened the right library, then tryed to import again, but with the same problem ????

    Im Also cunfused now :-)

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jan 23, 2012 5:37 AM in response to donabbasi
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    Jan 23, 2012 5:37 AM in response to donabbasi

    And how much free space is on your system drive?

     

    I strongly suspect that the system drive is nearly full: My guess: Aperture could not access the library on our external drive and tried to write to your system drive.

     

    Then your options are:

    • create plenty of free space on the system drive
    • or find out why the extrenal cannot be accessed by Aperture

     

    Reasons, why the external can not be read may be:

    • it is a network volume (that is not recommended for Aperture)
    • or the formatting is wrong. You need MacOS X extended formatting:

     

    If necessary, reformat your external volume using disk utility and repair the permissions on the  volume.

     

    Regards

  • by donabbasi,

    donabbasi donabbasi Jan 23, 2012 5:39 AM in response to léonie
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    Jan 23, 2012 5:39 AM in response to léonie

    ok thanks i'll try the options i get back to you :-)

  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Jan 23, 2012 5:46 AM in response to donabbasi
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    Jan 23, 2012 5:46 AM in response to donabbasi

    Good Luck,

    here is some information by Apple with respect to external volumes to host your Aperture Library:

     

    Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library:

    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3252

     

    Léonie

  • by donabbasi,

    donabbasi donabbasi Jan 23, 2012 5:59 AM in response to donabbasi
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    Jan 23, 2012 5:59 AM in response to donabbasi

    Wow ,i think it's working now i created more spance on my computer and now it's importing :-) i keeping my fingers crosed ,  thanks mate

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jan 23, 2012 6:01 AM in response to donabbasi
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    Jan 23, 2012 6:01 AM in response to donabbasi

    You are welcome

     

    Léonie

  • by Spillebeen,

    Spillebeen Spillebeen Aug 1, 2013 1:35 AM in response to donabbasi
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    Aug 1, 2013 1:35 AM in response to donabbasi

    I got the same message but the reason why was different from what I read here. I'd like to share this. Maybe someone else has the same problem.

    I tried to import about 1500 RAW format pictures an then I got this message saying that I needed another 700MB additional free space. My Aperture library was about 22GB and my harddisk had about 400GB free out of 1TB. So plenty of room I thought.

    However the external drive on which I store my masters wass full. So it wasn't the Aperture library drive but the external drive and this produces the exact same failure message. This is a little confusing.