It was a stroke of luck that my Aperture library was in an external hard drive when my laptop's internal drive failed. It was therefore just a (somewhat inconvenient) matter of replacing the internal drive or buying a new...

To a photographer whose work depends largely on flawlessly running Macs, any manner of hardware failure can qualify as a major disaster, perhaps leading to quiet panic and maybe even desperation. The idea of losing everything can elicit a hopelessly...

I've always been happy to tell people how they should have multiple backups of all their important files, in multiple places - but I've never been quite as strict about it doing it myself as I should have been...

Between Vaults, Time Machine and any other backup and archiving solutions you use (you DO backup, don’t you?), your Aperture Library should be securely backed up. However, accidents can happen...

A slightly tangential post this week... I do quite a lot of traveling, either on commission or going to conferences, and am a notoriously heavy packer. So, what do I pack and why? And what’s this got to do with...

I've been testing a Drobo for network backups. I like the little robotic array, but darn, wouldn't it be cool to use it with Aperture too?