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Q: Running Aperture using External HD

I have this MacBook Pro (mid 2010) that came with 500GB.  As you know, 500 GB is already full with basics like Aperture, MS Office, CS5 and a few other things on it.  Its lean but I still struggle with storage when I finish photography sessions with clients and hired jobs.  I keep getting "Not enough storage" on my internal drive, I want to import directly to an external drive to get around this issue.   Is there a way to run Aperture using a library on an external drive?  I was not able to create a new library on my external drive at all.  Struggling here. 

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Aperture 3.4.3

Posted on Dec 11, 2012 1:25 PM

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What does the disk "My Book" show, when you select it in the Finder and use "File > Get Info  ⌘I"? The error message strongly suggests, that the file system has the wrong formatting.

Posted on Dec 11, 2012 2:16 PM

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    prutowski prutowski Dec 12, 2012 9:47 AM in response to léonie
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    Dec 12, 2012 9:47 AM in response to léonie

    Yeah. I just transferred all of my photo libraries and vaults into the new GDrive. WOW.  My photography life has come back alive!  Looks like Aperture was able to "update" all of my old libraries and vaults that I was not able to do for the last year or so.  Thanks so much.   I'm thinking I will start building one large photo library going forward and see how it goes.

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