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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Other Raw Converters => Apple Aperture Q&A => Topic started by: spenny on January 08, 2007, 09:08:57 pm

Title: aperture and bus powered hard drives
Post by: spenny on January 08, 2007, 09:08:57 pm

Hi, I store my digital image files on a bus powered firewire drive, i was able to use it to import my images, but then for some reason aperture stopped seeing anything on this drive.

now the kicker is that i was using the 30 day trial and its expired. i was given a copy of aperture for christmas, but i dont want to open it if i cant use my drive with it.

has anyone experienced or heard of this?

fwiw: i'm using a referenced library

thanks
spenny

Title: aperture and bus powered hard drives
Post by: CatOne on January 12, 2007, 12:32:01 pm

I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work -- a drive is a drive.

Is this a Firewire drive or a USB2 drive?  I don't know that USB2 provides enough power to *reliably* power a drive over the bus -- Frankly I would expect behavior could be flaky.

Title: aperture and bus powered hard drives
Post by: spenny on January 12, 2007, 12:33:52 pm

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I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work -- a drive is a drive.

Is this a Firewire drive or a USB2 drive?  I don't know that USB2 provides enough power to *reliably* power a drive over the bus -- Frankly I would expect behavior could be flaky.
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its Firewire. i never did figure it out, but have come up with a workaround, thanks for replying