gmorneau
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Q: moving my Aperture Librairy to en external drive ( Time Capsule )

I want to move my librairy from my iMac to an external drive ( Time capsule ) and for the future export my new pictures directly to this external Drive. How can I do that ?

AppleTV 2, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 5, 2012 6:07 AM

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Q: moving my Aperture Librairy to en external drive ( Time Capsule )

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  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Nov 5, 2012 6:15 AM in response to gmorneau
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    Nov 5, 2012 6:15 AM in response to gmorneau

    I cannot recommend to use the TimeCapsule to store your Aperture Library. The Aperture Library needs to be on a local volume, formatted Mac OS X extended, not on a remote volume; see this support article:

     

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

     

    To move an Aperture Library to an external volume, simply copy it there using the Finder (drag and drop). After copying double click it on the external volume to open it in Aperture and to test it.

     

    Once you are satisfied that the copy is working, you can delete the original from your system volume. But I'd check, if your backup copy is current and in working condition before doing that.

     

    If your APerture library is referenced, you may want to relocate the original image files as well to your external drive: Select all images in the Brower and use "File > Relocate Originals" to do that.

     

    Regards

    Léonie

  • by gmorneau,

    gmorneau gmorneau Nov 5, 2012 6:48 AM in response to léonie
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    Nov 5, 2012 6:48 AM in response to léonie

    Thank you for your suggestion

     

    I have and other question.

    What,s the best way to work with the same librairy with 2 different computers ( iMac & Mac Pro ) ?

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Nov 5, 2012 7:15 AM in response to gmorneau
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    Nov 5, 2012 7:15 AM in response to gmorneau

    You want to work with same library at different times, right? Not to access it in parallel by two different users? Aperture is not a shared database; only one user at a time can/should open the library. And network access is very slow. Adjusting images while using a network database is no fun, besides being error prone.

     

    What I am doing, is simply using a sneaker drive - a portable external disk, that I plug into whatever mac I am using at the time. That is a bit old-fashioned, but fast and safe.

     

    If you use the external voume from different user accounts, you should set the "Ignore ownership on this volume" flag.

    You can set this flag, when you open the disk from the Finder with ⌘I  - "File > Get Info".

     

    Regards