Backup up to a Vault. Can I now delete my Aperture copies?

Hi long_haired_david,

The attached article explains that Aperture libraries and vaults need to be saved on a locally mounted USB or Firewire drive, not a network drive.

I would suggest you copy your Aperture Library to an external drive and confirm you can open the library from the external drive before deleting it from your internal drive on the MacBook Air.

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

Also, it is strongly recommended that the Aperture library be stored on a locally mounted hard drive. Storing the Aperture library on a network share can also lead to poor performance, data corruption, or data loss.

I hope this information helps ....

Have a great day!

- Judy

If you use a network drive, the libraries may behave in odd ways. I don’t know if vaults would work differently. With a network drive, there is also a possibility of corruption when saving but you would not know at the time unless you check.

Separate from your question -- is there a reason you don't take advantage of Aperture's ability to store Image's Originals on detachable drives? This would allow you to keep your Library whole, which greatly lowering the storage required on a laptop's system drive. Aperture was designed to meet the need of laptop users running out of storage space with just this functionality.