Apple MB673Z/A User Manual - Page 106

To delete an album, a Light Table album, a webpage album, a web journal album, or a book album: m Select the album, then choose File > Delete [Item]. The selected item is deleted along with its contents. Adding Times and Dates to Aperture Album Names It is common to differentiate albums in a project by adding the dates to the album names. If you add dates to an album name, avoid using special characters like the slash (/), since that may be interpreted by Mac OS X as a file separator. Working with Library Files When the library file becomes large and requires more disk space than is available in its current location, you can move it to a hard disk with more storage capacity. Aperture is preset to create the library file in the Pictures folder on your internal hard disk. You can specify that the library file be located in a different folder or on a different disk. Each time you open Aperture, the application opens the library in the location you specified. To change the location of the library, you move the library file to a new location and then use the Aperture Preferences window to specify the new location. ∏ Tip: To maximize performance, place the library file on an internal hard disk. To change the location of a library file: 1 Quit Aperture. 2 Locate the Aperture Library file in the Pictures folder on your hard disk and move it to the new location in a different folder or on a different hard disk. 3 Open Aperture and choose Aperture > Preferences, or press Command-Comma (,). 4 Click General in the Preferences window, if necessary. 5 Click Choose under the Library Location option. 6 Navigate to the new location of the library, select it, and click Select. 7 Quit Aperture and then reopen it. When you reopen Aperture, it accesses the library in the new location. 106 Part I Interface and Acquisition