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Question

rebuilding aperture

Apr 2, 2012 7:28AM PDT

Hi folks,

The latest iPhoto update trashed my aperture library. Although my photos are still there, they are as they were taken, i.e. I have lost ALL my adjustments.

I am using Time Capsule

1. What are the files I need to rebuild Aperture as it was.

2. Time Capsule says there is not enough space left. I therefore removed the old Aperture library (155GB), and got the same result. Before removing aperture it showed 130GB remaining. Afterwards it showed the same, even after rebooting. I suspect that virtual memory is grabbing all the space it can. How do I change that?

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I am no expert on this one.
Apr 2, 2012 7:32AM PDT
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Getting the space back.
Apr 2, 2012 11:37AM PDT

Thank you for your reply to Question 1.
But I am still stuck with question 2. Even though I deleted the library to restore it from Time Capsule, the HDD memory is staying at 131GB available. There should be over 300GB available. I said Virtual memory, but probably it's a swap file that is grabbing all the spare space. All updates have been done including aperture.

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To dive into that.
Apr 2, 2012 11:43AM PDT

Is fairly complicated. Again, while I know a little, most know more than me. But I'll try.

Consider the sparsebundle noted at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1631502?start=0&tstart=0

It's a bit of a mystery to some but I "get it" why we don't want to have this bouncing around in size. Maybe Apple has an article on how to tell it to compress that by releasing empty space in the bundle? Sorry but this sounds a wee bit like a high wire act. That is, I don't want you to lose your data in that backup.

I find many don't backup beyond this so any tinkering is off limits until we have our second and third backup copies of what we can't lose.

Hope this helps,
Bob