Apple Aperture 3 Work Flow
I am a user of apple aperture. I have a 13" macbook pro with a 250 gb hard drive. I'm getting to the point where I am filling my hard drive and have to move my master files about every 4 months to an external hard drive. I've been using a network hard drive in my house to move them to. It's not the most ideal way to do things, and I'm not doing very good at backing things up. I just upgraded from a XSI to a 6D. My files are growing exponentially now. I shoot in raw so I already have huge files. Does anyone else use Aperture on a macbook pro? I was curious what your work flow is.
Apple Aperture 3 Work Flow
I use Aperture, but not exclusively - I prefer DxO for RAW conversions. After conversion, I import the RAW files into Aperture as referenced files in one library (stored in year/month folders) and the jpgs directly into the Aperture library. The RAWs are backed up on multiple external drives.
I'm not yet at the point where I need to save space - the 500 GB drive helps there. But when I do, I'll just delete a year at a time of the RAWs from the internal HDD.
Apple Aperture 3 Work Flow
So far everything still fits on my MacBook Pro (500GB hard drive). I delete a lot of shots I take and haven't been out to shoot much recently.
I have a synology NAS with 3TB (2x 3 TB Raid 1) for backup only with TimeMachine and occasional rsync backups just in case TimeMachine blows up.
Once my library grows, I might add additional storage, either a second NAS or external drive and move the master files in Aperture.