Aperture Libraries between laptop and desktop

Aims:

- Be able to have my Aperture library on the laptop.
- Minimal juggling of project exports between machines.
- Keep the ability to download to the laptop on the road.

On the road, I can import to Temp.

Hence or otherwise, use rsync or manual Export/Import of projects to get new work onto the desktop.

Export/Import can be done entirely on the desktop, or export on the laptop and import on the desktop.

The last step depends on using referenced masters.

Rsync a copy of my 'master good' library from the desktop to the laptop. Without masters, my 20k image library is about 67GB. The RAW masters are about 160GB.

Slight modification to this: I'm keeping masters in ~/Pictures/Aperture/Masters/ and not right beside the Good library.

Aperture Libraries between laptop and desktop by fraserspeirs.

Made a new plan for a tidy approach to Aperture. The trick is to have two different libraries - a messy one for download on the road, and a pristine one on the desktop.

"Temp" is read/write on the laptop and "Good" is read/write on the desktop. Each is treated as read-only on the other machine.

It's not so important to rsync the Temp lib to the desktop - the same effect can be achieved by just exporting a couple of projects. The whole point of this is to avoid having to export projects without masters back to the laptop and keep track of what is where. That approach turned out to be way too much work.

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Cindy's World says:

neat shot, i just brought myself a apple Imac computer, and not sure what software i want to use yet on my mac, either i want to go with aperture or photoshop CS3. Or just the photoshop6, they say it should be out for the imac in Jan to work with the leopard that i use.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

duncandavidson says:

Indeed, it's the same basic approach that I use for my libraries. One big honking one on the desktop at home that is the master and a feeder one on my laptop that photos live in until I get home and move them into the master.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

fraserspeirs says:

@duncandavidson Yep. The difference here is that I also want to have a 'skeleton' version of my main library on the laptop which just includes JPEG previews.

BTW, can you do that in Lightroom - have JPEGs only in a catalogue, with masters elsewhere? Haven't dug that deep into LR.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

jim_moore says:

Nice approach... I use a single library with all my images stored on a Terastation but I don't yet have the desktop setup incorporated into my Workflow... so my Aperture libs are just on the MacBook Pro... but it's something I'll need to tackle myself once I get my desktop setup up and running.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

barcoder96 says:

It's such a pain to not be able to do some work on my laptop. I think I've been holding out on Aperture for too long!
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

Susie jean says:

can you say that again in English.........
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

captcreate says:

cool
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

simongreenuk says:

How do you run the rsync? Applescript?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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