iPhoto to Aperture

Leonie, Apt works fine this morning. 🙂

Great. Good to know 🙂

My activity monitor

That is a very useful utility, but in this case I meant Aperture's built in "Activity Viewer" (from Aperture > Windows > Show Activity). That is aso very useful, for it will show you what exactly Aperture is trying to do, when it is spinning its beachball.

So I think I want to to the same thing. I would like to take all my pictures from IPhoto and get them in to Aperture so I don't have to switch from IPhoto and back to Aperture constantly. Will all the above mentioned do it for me? I have a new External HD I want to get ready to do this with.

So if I take my new 2TB drive and partition it to 1TB for Time Machine and 1TB for regular use I could "Export" the iPhoto library to a new named library on the hard drive then it will show up in the library tree when using the Apt library?

I just moved the new libraries into it and then deleted them from my main Apt library and my computer's HD.

Rick, this may become problematic, when the disk gets full. You know that Time Machine will write backups, until the drive fills, and only then it will start to delete earlier backups and free space. You risk Aperture and TimeMachine fighting for space. Also you will not be able to include the Aperture Library into your Time Machine backup.

Partitioning the drive would restrict Time Machine to a fixed amount of space and leave a fixed amount for your Aperture Library.

Regards

Léonie

how I accidentally put "Heloise" and "Germany" into folders

I don't know about Heloise, but your "Apt. Library (Germany)" probably looks like a folder because of the "." in the filename. I'd rename it to "Apt_Library_Germany", that would be saver. The parts of the filename following a dot may be interpreted as file extension and specify the type of a file, and that may confuse the Finder.

To partition a drive: Could your son listen in with Skype, while you try that?

I assume your MacOS is Lion, version 10.7.4, right?

Then you should be able to partition your Time Machine drive without loosing the data on it, but create a copy of your Aperture libraries before try it, and make sure, you can open those copies.

To partion a drive you connect it and launch Disk Utilitiy. It is in Applications > Utilities. You should see a window like this:

In the left pane you see your disks. Select the one that you want to partition, then select the partition on this drive, that should be split in two, in the above example, the partition "Hermione Media" on my 1 TB disk.

In the right pane click the tab "Partition". In the "Partition Layout" click the partition to be split, here "Hermione Media". Now you should see a blue selection frame. The lower right corner is a resize handle. Drag it to make the partition smaller; in your case, until the size is 1 GB. When the partition is small enough, click the "+" button to add a second partition; resize it also to 1 GB, so that both partitions together fill the disk. Enter a name for the new partition in the textfield. Make sure the format control is set to MacOS Extended Journaled. Then press "apply".

Now you should have a second partition for your media and can quit Disk Utility.

Then you can copy your Aperture libraries to the new partition.

Regards

Léonie

To both Ken30 and Blackbelly

putting both the backups and the live files on the same drive even if on different partitions is a very bad idea. If the drive fails you will loose both your current work and your backups.

You're talking about putting two partitions on that drive. One will have your TM backups the other has your Aperture libraries, no? At least that is the way I read what you and ken30 were discussing.

If I misread then ignore my post.