Q: Help with simple steps to incorporate iPhoto library into Aperture and move on my NAS
I have just brought Aperture to do the following -
I want all my photo's currently on my MAC which I view through iphoto moved off the MAC to the NAS.
I understand that iphoto is no good for this but Aperture is.
I have a Synology NAS DS213J.
Before I get into the programme and start linking with iphoto and doing the wrong way round, I wonder if anyone can outline the hopefully simple steps I need to take.
Thank you.
Posted on Jan 4, 2014 10:44 AM
I understand that iphoto is no good for this but Aperture is.
iPhoto is problematic with referenced original files, because iphoto has no tools to recover from broken references, but Aperture has been designed to handle referenced images and libraries distributed across several drives well and has tools to fix broken references.
But both, iPhoto and Aperture, are not network databases.
Apple says: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library
Putting your originals on a network storage will make Aperture slower, and you are risking library corruption by transmission errors. The safest and option, and the solution with the quickest access to your original files will be a directly connected drive.
Posted on Jan 5, 2014 3:00 AM