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Aperture on MacBook Air

This past week I visited family, knowing that I needed to do some major clean up to my Aperture library I went through the painstaking process of removing previews and consolidating the projects I wanted to use and transferring a new library to my MacBook Air, which I was taking with me (I will note, when I normally travel it’s for work so I don’t get to take Aperture or my Air with me which is why this was sort of foreign to me). Needless to say that who process took a few hours.

When I finally sat down over the Thanksgiving holiday to work on some photos my Air basically ground to a halt running Aperture, appearing to be a CPU limitation. I knew from past experiences that my MacBook Air doesn’t run aperture very well, I’ve primarily used it to dump and do triage on photos in a single project as I’m traveling. Running a library that was 40gb+ didn’t happen. Each action took forever. Needless to say I am a little disappointed I spent the time getting everything running to only fail, but I guess I should have seen this coming.

No, I’m not going to run out and buy a MacBook Pro, as much as I would like too, but now I need to figure out someway to work on photos while I am traveling with my Air. Any suggestions?

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Posted in Tumblelog on November 29th, 2009 Taged with , , ,

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  • gurmsingh
    I just came across your blog, and though this is an older post, We have been challenged with the same problem and solved it by simply creating a "portable libray" and then export the projects back to our "master library" Its a little redundant, but allows us to work in apeture, and then export the versions and masters back to the main library via that project. Great blog, and we've enjoyed reading it, I grew up in DC and we moved to the valley about 7 years ago. My wife owns a photography studio in Hailey.
  • Thanks, even though this is a older post it's still a relevant discussion.

    One of things I was trying to do while traveling was go back and organize a lot of old projects (from before my Aperture days) that are just a mess. I didn't get to this on any of my prior trips, sadly. What I did when I didn't want my whole library was just to have the master library on my desktop and a library on my Air. While traveling I would would import photos (managed masters) into the library on the Air and then export the project(s) and re-import these project on the Desktop.

    This sounds like what you have been doing if I'm not mistaken. Which seems to be the only way to move projects between computers.

    It has been a wile since I had a small library size on my Mac Book Air so while I know the problem I'm running into, besides HD size which is fixable using your method, was the processor couldn't handle running the software very well. It would take multiple seconds (like 15-30) to change pictures (in the browser).

    Have you found that when having a smaller library on your laptop (I don't know what laptop you have) improves Aperture performance as compared to a larger (HD size) library?

    The wood river valley is a great place for photography. What type of work does your wife do?
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