My library on my MacBook Pro is about 64,000 images and taking up 422GB on my HD. I deleted image previews already.
Wondering what suggestions you would have for me?
I feel like there is a better way to setup my MacBook.
Cheers,
Aric
My library on my MacBook Pro is about 64,000 images and taking up 422GB on my HD. I deleted image previews already.
Wondering what suggestions you would have for me?
I feel like there is a better way to setup my MacBook.
Cheers,
Aric
Sounds like you are using a managed library. Switching to a referenced library might be a solution. You would be able to keep your images on an external drive with a much smaller library on the internal drive.
However…you haven’t given us any useful information to really help. What difficulties are you having that prompted this request? What are you trying to achieve that you can’t do now? What model Macbook is this? What is the size of your hard disk? What external connections do you have (USB2, USB3, Thunderbolt)? How are you currently doing backups of your Aperture library?
This information would help us to better help you.
Thanks Jim,
How can I check to see what kind of library I have? I think I am using a referenced library, but now, not positive.
To help and answer the other questions.
Aperture seems to be running a little slow, along with my computer.
I have a 1TB HD in my 17” MacBook Pro Mid 2009 with 332GB free
I have USB2 connections.
I am backing up my library through Time Machine.
Look forward to hearing from you.
You didn’t indicate how much RAM is in your MacBook, but not enough of it is frequently a cause of bad performance.
You should probably use Activity Monitor to find out what’s going on when things have slowed down.
Google “activity monitor” to find out more about it. Here’s a couple of useful links:
http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_diagnose_slow_mac_using_activi…
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342
To find out if you are using referenced images, look for the “Referenced Image” badge on your photos. Or search for referenced images using ⌘F.
Is your Time Machine an external disk?