Terence Devlin wrote:
There's absolutely no reason why that should not work but... And it is a significant but:
When the hardware goes - in 10 / 15 years or so - what's your out? You have data in a format that no other app an read, backed up in the same format? The current version of the new apps will read the Library, but what about the version in 10 years time? And the replacement machine you buy won't run Aperture - even if you could find an installer?
Well right from the get go I have only used referenced files, so all the original raw files will still be available but without adjustment or the database part of Apeture. I do have the reference files is a structured system on the external hard drives of year/month/date/event, and backed up to hard drives using the slightly more common fat filling system as opposed to OS X file system.
Obviously a jump to Capture One would at the moment be easy in that it has the ability to read the Aperture Library, but as with ANY package will it still be here in 10/15 years or are we just going to have to jump through hoops each and every time a vendor decides to drops support of an app.
Will the new machine install Aperture, no, but in 10 /15 years i doubt it will read floppies,cd,dvd, blue ray or even hard drives, but that going to be another issue we'll all have to contend with.