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Ok I got my new external drive and I am vaulting my current Aperture library.
Because of the size of my library my HDD only now has 7GB of space (from 200GB) I would like to know if it is safe to delete my current library on my Mac and when I need to retrieve my older photos from the vault on the external drive.
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No, don't. This is not how vaults work. Vaults are backups and while deleted photos will be kept in a special folder, it will not work in the way you want!
However, there is a simple solution within Aperture: you can put old projects onto your external harddrive. (You can in principle do this on a per photo basis, but it's easier to just move the whole project instead.)
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Oh what I meant was I wanted to have two different "vaults" on my external drive.
The "Juy142009" vault and a "Future" vault.
I just want to maintain my "future" vault with my Mac and external drive while keeping my "Juy142009" vault on my external as a backup or archieval.
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I still think it'd be easier if you move old projects to your external harddrive. Or even better, upgrade your internal harddrive. This way, you have access to the photos on your external harddrive -- even if the drive isn't connected. In that case, you'll still see the thumbnails and you can rate them and sort them.
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I noticed I haven't touched any of my old photos so keeping them on my Mac isn't what I want to do. I'd prefer completely start fresh with new projects.
Within that context... good idea?
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Originally Posted by Pao|o 
I noticed I haven't touched any of my old photos so keeping them on my Mac isn't what I want to do.
If you referenced some projects to files on the external harddrive, you wouldn't keep the photos on your internal harddrive, but on the external harddrive. It's easier than it sounds.
Originally Posted by Pao|o
I'd prefer completely start fresh with new projects.
That has nothing to do with it. If I were you, I'd watch some Aperture tutorials (e. g. on apple.com) to understand what projects are really meant for. A project is supposed to be a repository for photos of the same shoot (not just the same type). They're the equivalent of Events in iPhoto.
If you keep up this splitting, you can easily move image files associated to projects you no longer touch onto another harddrive. They still appear as projects within Aperture, you can still view photos (rather: thumbnails), but you cannot edit them.*
Projects whose photos reside on the external harddrive take up only a miniscule amount of space on your internal harddrive (think MB rather than GB). The alternative would be to export projects themselves. What you'd get is another Aperture project file that contains all the information stored in Aperture. However, let me emphasize again that you gain almost no space if you were to export projects and then delete them within Aperture.
Originally Posted by Pao|o
Within that context... good idea?
No.
* You can even move single photos, but it's much easier to let Aperture move a whole project at once to a certain destination onto your external harddrive.
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