Aperture Sync between 2 Mac's
Hello all, I have been reading some posts about syncing 1 aperture library between 2 Mac’s here and there are a lot of great discussions about this.
I have been looking at doing this myself and have found a solution that works great for me and thought I would share it.
OK so I have an iMac with Aperture on it and an old 2007 MacBook (Upgraded the HDD to a 1TB) with aperture on it. My aperture library on the iMac is about 250GB about 40,000 RAW&JPG Images and some video. I wanted to have this available on both Mac’s and if I made changes to the library on one Mac I wanted it to Sync those changes with the same library on the other Mac.
The way I do this is by using a app called DropSync, This allows me to sync in either direction (Left or Right as they put it)
So using a fire wire cable I setup one Mac as external HD (Hold down T when booting) and use Dropsync to sync the aperture library.
Example.
I make some edits to some pictures and delete unwanted images in Aperture on my iMac.
After this is done I plug in the fire wire cable to my MacBook and boot it up as an external drive.
This will then appear on my iMac Desktop as an external drive. I have Dropsync configured to see this drive. I then run a preview to the right in Dropsync. It will see the changes in the Aperture library and then sync those changes to the library file on my MacBook.
If I had made the changes on the MacBook the process would be the same except Dropsync would preview and sync to the left.
Works great for me, Let me know what you think.
Cra1gsam.
Aperture 3