My 2008 MacBook Pro/mavericks has a full hard drive. To make space, I need to move my 175gb aperture library to an external drive.
1) is the only finder entry I need to drag to the new drive “aperture library”
2) are there any steps after that necessary to now import and run aperture off the external drive
3) I think I am leaning towards a 3tb WD my book desktop external to work off of and a 3tb WD my passport to back up to. What is the best solution, use this drive to run time machine backups and vaults, or does it mKe sense to use oes super duper or another clone tool to manage back ups and in effect duplicate the aperture library.
Did I miss anything, is there anything you would tweak here?
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Moving aperture library to external hard drive/back up strategy
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If you’re using a “managed library” then all you need to copy is the library file (which is actually a package containing all your originals, previews, metadata, etc).
Once copied, double-click the library file on the external drive and Aperture will open it and make it the default library. After verifying all is OK you can delete the library from your built-in drive (assuming you have backups of course).
Ask 5 people a backup question and you’ll get 5 different answers.
Thomas