Q: Sharing from Aperture to iCloud
Hi,
I recently enabled iCloud in Aperture preferences and selected an image then clicked the iCloud icon on the toolbar. The image zips into the iCloud folder on the left as it's supposed to.
However, when I go to the iCloud icon in system preferences it shows 0% of 20 GB backed up and Aperture doesn't appear in the list of apps sharing to iCloud.
what am I doing wrong here?
Jon
iPad, Mac OS X (10.7.5), iPad air
Posted on Nov 21, 2014 9:43 AM
can I back up entire projects or folders to the HD in one go, or do I have to do it image by image?
With Aperture you will want to backup the complete Aperture library and not separate projects, because an Aperture Library is essentially a relational database and everything is connected. Saving only the photos will make it impossible to restore your edits any work you do in Aperture.
The easiest backup of your Aperture library is a full copy of your Aperture library on the external drive. You can drag the Aperture library over or use any software that will make incremental copies of the changes, so the second backup all be much faster. I use carbon Copy Cloner, Super duper would do the same. Aperture has a built-inincremental backup, the vaults. A vault is a backup of the library, that you can update, when the library changes and from which you can restore the library.
Also with regard to disks, what type of disks do you recommend?
Any directly connected external drive with a fast connection - Thunderbolt or USB 3. And formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled). See this link: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library
Posted on Nov 21, 2014 11:55 PM


