Aperture Sync between MBP and iMac: Mac Talk Forum: Digital Phot. Stuck Between a Rock and a Laptop... - Inside Aperture. Like many photographers, I share my post-processing time between a portable and a desktop computer (in this case a MacBook Pro and an early G5 PowerMac).
This is pretty standard, with the portability of the notebook being offset by the larger HDs, more RAM and bigger screens of the tower. This is all well and good, until it comes to sharing work and edits between two copies of Aperture... To some extent, this problem is already covered in Aperture with the ability to import and export entire Projects - edits, adjustments, Versions, Albums and all. Do some work on the MBP, export the Project, copy across to the G5 and import. The downside? Syncing Aperture Libraries on two computers - O'Reilly Digital M. Discussing Anyone Sucessfully syncing two Aperture libraries wit.
Ian James Wood says: I've been doing this on and off for nine months without any problems, but I'm the main user on both machines so it's easy for me to make sure that I only ever work with the 'current' copy of the Library.
I don't often find myself disagreeing with Fraser, but as long as Aperture isn't running, the complexity and internal structure of Aperture is totally irrelevant as ChronoSync is going to make the target Library an identical copy of the origin. You don't even need to turn on 'dissect packages', but it will be FAR faster if you do as ChronoSync will then copy the individual files in the Library rather than copying the entire package each time. The risk of corruption is exactly the same as it would be when using ChronoSync for other purposes, but that said I wouldn't advise this for people who aren't fairly computer literate, and obviously you should always be keeping your backup procedures up to date.