I have my large aperture library on an external hard drive. I want to move it to a new EHD. Can i just open 2 finder windows and start dragging everything over? If so, should I also drag the folder called aperture library?
I guess I am not understanding how aperture will know to look for all of my images and metadata on the new EHD, How do i tell it to do that if use finder windows to drag everything over?
Or am I looking at this wrong…should i be relocating the masters of all projects to the new EHD? seems like that would take an eternity.
I appreciate the help.
Yes drag the Lib from one finder window to a new finder window. Make sure you don’t have another lib with the same name in the new HD. From the new Hard drive dble click on the lib and AP will open it. In AP preferences change default location of the lib you want to open all the time. Cheers
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Scottsdale AZ
Thank you . Just to be clear: I can use finder windows to drag the file called aperture library from the old EHD to the new EhD. Then in the new EHD go in to the aperture preferences and change the default location to the new EHD, correct?
And as far as moving all of my actual projects ( I have my images arranged both in aperture and the EHD by year, minth, day format) I need to go to file and relocate masters. In other words, I cannot use finder windows to drag all of my projects over from the old EHD to the new EHD, correct?
I am unclear on this. I should mention that files, obviously, are referenced. Thank you
YES “Just to be clear: I can use finder windows to drag the file called aperture library from the old EHD to the new EhD”
” Then in the new EHD go in to the aperture preferences a” In the new EHD double click on the Library to open it in AP and make sure it works, while AP is open change your preference “general” to reflect the location of the new Hd lib.
” I should mention that files, obviously, are referenced. Yes
” I need to go to file and relocate masters.” No the lib knows where the master are (thats what the lib does) unless you moved them also manually. Never move masters manually use AP to relocate them if their location needs moving
“I cannot use finder windows to drag all of my projects over from the old EHD to the new EHD, correct? Correct …. The beauty of the lib is that it is a library of projects and Albums and sometimes managed images. When you move the lib your move everything at once to a new location.
davidbmoore@mac.com
Twitter= @davidbmoore
Scottsdale AZ
So, basically all I have to do is move the aperture library file and then change in preferences the location to the new EHD?
By doing this I will have the aperture library, metadata, projects, folders albums etc as it is currently organized, just now it will be on the new EHD I want it to be on?
Could it really be that simple?
Being as my images are referenced wont they still be on the old EHD? That’s why I thought I would have to use file, relocate masters to move the location of the images from the old EHD to the new EHD. Are you saying I don’t need to do that?
YES “So, basically all I have to do is move the aperture library file and then change in preferences the location to the new EHD?”
YES “By doing this I will have the aperture library, metadata, projects, folders albums etc as it is currently organized, just now it will be on the new EHD I want it to be on?”
CORRECT n Correct “Being as my images are referenced wont they still be on the old EHD? That’s why I thought I would have to use file, relocate masters to move the location of the images from the old EHD to the new EHD. Are you saying I don’t need to do that?
davidbmoore@mac.com
Twitter= @davidbmoore
Scottsdale AZ
You are officially my favorite person on the planet. tHANK YOU. As soon as my vault finishes I will move everything over, following your directions.
Thank you!
Katy,
Make sure the new EHD is formatted properly (MacOS Extended (HFS+)) before you copy your library to it. If it is formatted FAT32 or something like that, which is how most new HD come, you will have trouble with Aperture.
DBMore,
I was surprised at your recommendation to open Aperture preferences to set the default library. I haven’t heard of that before (I can’t check for it at the moment). Whichever library you open or switch to automatically becomes the default library. If you double-click a library in the Finder, Aperture will open it and it will become the default library. (If a different library was already open, a dialog will ask if you want to switch to the new library or merge it with the currently open one.)
Thomas
Thomas Thanks for checking on me. I wasnt thinking clearly on that and you are of course right. Cheers
davidbmoore@mac.com
Twitter= @davidbmoore
Scottsdale AZ