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Library to Referenced Masters
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I currently have my aperture library in a single library file on my Powerbook's hard disk. It's now at 26gb and rising sharply. I'd like to be able to move all the images onto an external/network disk, but still be able to do some basic work with them on the road.
If I do something like relocate masters, will that let me do what I want? Is it difficult to migrate from a library file to referenced masters? What are the drawbacks? Is the import/export workflow different? Am I asking too many questions? (:
Thanks in advance!
--Eoghan
Posted at 5:57PM, 26 March 2007 PDT
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Perhaps your question is answered here.
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I just went through the same problem, my Aperture library consumed my entire laptop hard drive. I'm pleased with how well Aperture works with referenced masters. Here are the highlights from my experience:
Important: You still need to back up to a vault to preserve image editing and tagging, but you also need to back up your masters folder separately.
You can choose to relocate masters on a per-project basis, so you can pick and choose which masters to relocate.
You can use and create naming presets. I did this because I put most projects into subfolders, so I created a folder preset that is the folder and project name. I then relocate the masters to a "masters" folder on my external hard drive and get a subfolder hierarchy that matches my Aperture projects heirarchy.
You can import new photos into the library, even into projects that have referenced masters. Then, later, you can choose to relocate the masters. This lets me add new photos "on the road" and even edit them. When I get back to my external hard drive I move the masters and free up the hard disk space.
When Aperture relocates the masters from inside the Aperture library it automatically removes (and deletes) them from your Aperture library. There is no second copy of the masters, they aren't in the trash. They are literally moved to the new location.
You can relocate your masters around over and over, using it as a way to rename them or put into a different folder heirarchy.
When your masters are offline you can still view them (assuming you have the previews generated), but all editing is disabled.
Aperture knows when your external drive comes online and will make editing available automatically.
Posted 75 months ago.
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The biggest pain I had in converting my Aperture library to referenced masters is that you have to "Relocate Masters" for each project individually. It's just a time-consuming but one-off operation.
Posted 75 months ago.
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You can relocate masters on an image-by-image basis - you do not have to do this by project.
So you can also go the All Images library album, select all, then File -> Relocate Masters...
Note that if you select a project then go to the file menu, it will say "Relocate Masters for Project..." - it just depends what has the focus. If you select one image and look at the menu, you have the option to relocate a single image. If you select multiple, you can relocate multiple. If you click on the project, you can relocate an entire project.
Originally posted 75 months ago.
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blakeseely edited this topic 75 months ago.
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So you can also go the All Images library album, select all, then File -> Relocate Masters...
*facepalm*
Posted 75 months ago.
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