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4 Click one of the following buttons:
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Remove and Delete: When you click this button, Aperture no longer tracks the vault, and the
vault’s les are deleted from your hard disk.
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Remove: When you click this button, Aperture no longer tracks the vault, but the vault’s les
remain on the hard disk.
Restoring Your Aperture System
If you buy a new computer or use another system at a dierent location and want access to the
Aperture library, you can install Aperture and then transfer the library from your vault (on your
backup disk) to the other computer. If you experience equipment failure or other unexpected
events, such as re or weather-related damage to your equipment, you can easily restore the
entire library to your new computer from a backup disk.
To restore the entire library from an external backup disk
1 Connect the hard disk drive that contains the most up-to-date vault to your computer and
open Aperture.
2 Choose File > Vault > Restore Library.
The Restore Library dialog appears.
3 Choose the vault you want to use to restore your library from the Source Vault pop-up menu.
If the vault doesn’t appear in the Source Vault pop-up menu, choose Select Source Vault from the
Source Vault pop-up menu, navigate to the vaults location in the Select Source Vault dialog, then
click Select.
4 Click Restore, then click Restore again.
Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library
In the rare event that your Aperture database becomes corrupted or the les within it have
permissions issues, Aperture provides a few methods for reconstituting your Aperture library and
the le relationships within it.
To repair or rebuild your Aperture library
1 Close Aperture, if it’s open.
2 Locate the Aperture library you want to x, then hold down the Command and Option keys
while double-clicking the Aperture library.