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Chapter 26 Backing Up Your Photos 555
Disconnecting a Vault’s Hard Disk Drive from Your System
Temporarily
You may routinely disconnect a backup hard disk drive from your Aperture system and take it to
a safe osite location. When you disconnect a backup hard disk from your computer, Aperture
takes the associated vault oine. When you reconnect the hard disk, Aperture automatically
detects the hard disk and connects it to the corresponding vault.
To disconnect a vault’s hard disk drive from your Aperture system
1 In the Finder, drag the icon for the hard disk drive to the Trash, or select the disk in the sidebar of
a Finder window and click the Eject button.
2 Disconnect the hard disk drive from your computer.
Reconnecting a Vault’s Hard Disk Drive to Your System
If you keep a backup of the Aperture library on an osite hard disk drive, you’ll occasionally need
to bring it in for updating. Aperture keeps track of the hard disks that have been disconnected
from their vaults. When you reconnect a hard disk drive, Aperture automatically detects the hard
disk, determines which vault it’s assigned to, and reconnects the vault.
At times, you may rename a backup hard disk drive or add a new one and copy a vault to the
new disk. In this case, you need to specify the location, or path, of the new or changed backup
hard disk drive.
To specify a vault’s new location or path
1 Connect the hard disk drive to your computer.
2 To show the Vault pane, do one of the following:
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Choose Window > Show Vaults (or press Shift-R).
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Click the Show Vaults button.
3 Select the vault to be updated to a new path.
4 Choose Update Vault Path from the Vault Action pop-up menu (with a gear icon).
5 Navigate to the location of the vault on the hard disk drive, select it, then click Update Path.
Deleting a Vault Permanently
You can delete an entire vault and all the photos on it when you need to recongure your
backup system. This is useful when you have moved your backup vault to a larger-capacity hard
disk and you want to delete the vault information from the current hard disk drive to use it for
other purposes.
To permanently remove a vault and delete its information
1 Do one of the following:
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Choose Window > Show Vaults (or press Shift-R).
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Click the Show Vaults button.
2 In the Vault pane, select the vault you want to remove.
3 Do one of the following:
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Choose File > Vault > Remove Vault.
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Choose Remove Vault from the Vault Action pop-up menu (with a gear icon).
A dialog appears, asking if you want to remove the vault.