Q: Is it possible to have Aperture with all the pictures on the MacBook Pro and have Aperture on a MacBook Air so that it uses the li ... Is it possible to have Aperture with all the pictures on the MacBook Pro and have Aperture on a MacBook Air so that it uses the library on the MacBook Pro? more
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Feb 24, 2014 1:07 AM in response to iUkivonCAby léonie,Do you want to access the Aperture library on the other Mac remotely over a network? That will not work. An Aperture library needs to be on a locally connected volume, see this link: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library
You could connect the MacBook Pro to your MacBook AIr using a thunderbolt cable and boot it as an external drive in Target mode (see: Transfer files between two computers using target disk mode), but that will require a second partition on your MBP with the ignore ownership flag set.
The simplest solution would be to get yourself a small portable external drive and put your Aperture library on that drive and plug the drive into the mac you are currently working with.
How to do this is described here for iPhoto, but will work for Aperture as well:
iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users
Format external drives to Mac OS Extended before using with Aperture
Regards
Léonie