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Restoring vault from external hd #1
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by stump4545
September 27, 2012 - 3:32am

i have a big aperture vault stored on an external hd.
my current aperture library is stored on my internal hd.

what happens when i go to restore my vault from the external drive?

does aperture close existing library on internal hd and create a full aperture library on external hd?

just wanted to make sure before i open the vault since it is huge at 691gb and i dont want to crash/ corrupt my cpu.

thanks for the help.

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by PhotoJoseph
September 27, 2012 - 5:13am

Angelo,

When you restore from a vault, technically what happens is Aperture copies the vault (I don’t recall if you have a choice of where, to be honest) and then converts that to a Library. You should read some recent discoveries on Vaults on this article, “Aperture Vault’s File Extension Secret”.

You will need considerable space to recover a vault that large — probably double the size of the Vault itself.

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