User guide

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Restore your Aperture library
If you experience equipment failure or other unexpected events, such as re or weather-related
damage to your computer, you can easily restore your Aperture library from a vault stored on a
backup disk. You can also use the backup disk to transfer your library to another computer that
has Aperture installed.
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 vault’s location in the Select Source Vault dialog, and
click Select.
4 Click Restore, and then click Restore again.
Repair and rebuild 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.
Repair or rebuild your Aperture library
1 Close Aperture, if it’s open.
2 Locate the Aperture library you want to x, and then hold down the Command and Option keys
while double-clicking the Aperture library.
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