Hi
I would like to store all my masters on a network drive, and have aperture running on multiple computers (my laptop, my wife's, my mac-mini). I would like to be able to have aperture download from my camera's memory card on any machine and store the masters on the network drive in some sensible date-based hierarchy. Whenever aperture is started up, it should check the hierarchy for new files and automatically import them. That way, I can have the same libraries on all computers, and all the masters in one place. Is this possible?
Thanks
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Adam
Adam,
No, Aperture doesn’t work that way. Sounds ideal and a lot of people want that, but it hasn’t happened. The type of storage you’re talking about is called a NAS (Network Attached Storage), by the way.
Doing anything over the network is sketchy. In brief, you can NOT put the Aperture Library on a network drive, and while you technically are supposed to be able to put the Masters on a network drive, that functionality broke in Lion and people have been having loads of issues with it. I’d definitely advise keeping it all local.
Here’s an article I wrote last year on the topic: Network Drives (NAS) and Aperture
Also if you search for “NAS” in the search box (top left of this screen) you’ll find multiple discussions about it.
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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