Hi there,
I am working with a person who has a Retina MacBook Pro with an Aperture library on it that I have to be able to use on my computer which isn't a Retina MacBook Pro.
I copied her library onto an external drive and when I opened it on my computer, the images wouldn't display. I am thinking that the problem is that they are image files compatible only with the retina display.
Has anyone heard of this problem before and do you know if there is a setting that I can change that would allow me to see the photos on the Retina MacBook Pro library on my computer?
Thank you!
The cleanest way to share an aperture library is to make it a managed library. Your friend, having the master copy, should make sure all the originals are relocated into the library.
Will you both be changing the library? If so, you will have to work out how changes in one copy will be merged into the other, and who will make what changes. When you merge one library into another you have select which library will take precedent when changes on both copies collide. Contents of any individual IPTC field or adjustment brick will not be combined. You must select which copy will be used.
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Retina or not won’t matter.
There are a couple of things to start with.
1. Since an external drive is involved, make sure it was formatted properly. Aperture libraries only work properly on drives formatted as Mac OS Extended. If the drive was formatted as FAT32 or NTFS for example, you’ll have troubles.
2. Was your friend using a referenced library? If so, the original images are not in the library file you copied (they are stored separately) so you don’t have them. In this case it would be better to Export what you need from your friends library. When you select projects or images on your friends computer, you can export as Library (to the external drive). You will be able to include the referenced originals along with this export in which case you’ll have everything you need on the external drive.
Thomas