Quote Originally Posted by Trowski


I'm guessing Aperture makes a package much like iPhoto, and you can't see the files in that library. (Actually you can see the contents of these packages, right click on the file and select 'Show Package Contents.' Apps are packages too, try this with some random .app file. Just don't modify things in there if you don't know what your'e doing.)


I've never experienced library corruption, but with Time Machine, I don't really worry about such things. I'm assuming you're using Time Machine just as I am, and you can always restore from a back up where the library was not corrupted. Again, with Lightroom this would also be limited to just the catalog. Losing the catalog would be bad, but at least you'd still have the photos. But with Time Machine backing up the catalog, I doubt you'd ever actually lose it.



Yes, Aperture makes a package like iPhoto, that's why I selected the option to store files in their original folder location, and just have the Aperture Library store the changed processing data.


Yes, I use Time Machine too, however keep in mind that Time Machine is not to be used for Archiving, since any errors or corruption will be copied to Time Machine. Now, if you catch the corruption before your Time Machine Drive gets overwritten then you are fine, but if not then you're in trouble. Archiving is permanent as long as their isn't a drive failure, so that's where duplicate drives come in handy. I have actually had hardware RAID configurations fail more than once and I'm not talking about RAID 0 striping, where you are twice as likely of having a drive failure, since 2 drives are spinning, however I had archived Data so I never lost anything. That's why I'm a little paranoid.


Rich