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You can also relocate originals, moving them out of the library or moving referenced originals to
dierent hard disk locations. If needed, you can also move referenced originals into the Aperture
library by choosing the Consolidate Originals command in the File menu.
You can search for photos based on whether they are managed images, referenced images, or
online or oine images. Aperture also provides robust le management tools that let you quickly
determine which images are oine and easily reconnect images that have been moved to
dierent volumes.
What is the Aperture Trash?
All items deleted in Aperture, including projects, albums, folders, versions, and originals, are
placed in the Aperture Trash in the Library inspector. You can retrieve any item from the Aperture
Trash until you empty it. For more information, see Work with the Aperture Trash on page 56.
What is a vault?
To ensure that you have backup copies of your photos, you create a vault to hold the backup
les. A vault is a container that holds an exact copy of the library. This includes projects, originals,
and any versions you’ve created. You can easily create and update a vault to back up the library.
It’s a good idea to create multiple vaults on multiple external hard disk drives to safeguard
copies of the library.
You can have as many vaults as you deem necessary. Creating more than one vault is useful if
you work at dierent locations; you can always keep one vault on an external drive onsite and
another one osite. All vaults and backup les are tracked by the library so that even if you
disconnect the external hard drive that contains a vault, Aperture can access it the next time
you reconnect the drive and update the vault.
All the originals and versions for managed images are backed up, as well as all metadata,
previews, and adjustment information associated with managed images. The versions, previews,
metadata, and adjustment information associated with referenced originals are also backed up
in the vault. Referenced originals are not backed up in the vault with the library.
Important: Because the originals for referenced images are stored outside of the library, you
must manage the backup and archiving of them yourself.
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