O.K. back at home I simply copied my Aperture library to an external HD and started the migration. It worked quite well and after about an hour everything was well upgraded. Since Aperture was only building the previews and trying to detect faces I decided to quit and make an additional backup. We will see how this will all end once the backup is done and the upgraded library is back on my MacBook Pro’s HD… stay tuned!
February 19th, 2010
Congratulations Apple! You have finally made it happen. A few days ago apple launched the third version of its pro photo software. So, as I’m using Aperture since Version 1.5 and was using version 2 there was no question whether to upgrade or not, esp. at a price of 99 Euro. A few days ago I ordered the package and today it arrived. I took the time, prior to the upgrade, to tidy up my MacBook Pro’s HD and get rid of some ballast 
The upgrade process itself was no problem in terms of upgrading the software itself. Finally the startup dialog told me that I had to upgrade my library in order to work properly with the newly version 3. Of cause I agreed, since I was pretty much interested of being able to use all the nice brush features that were advertised. But then I could hardly believe my eyes: A popup told the that I was not having enough HD capacity for the upgrade. To tell it in numbers: my library is about 60 GB whereas I still have 48 GB left on my drive… Do I get it right? The upgrade needs more than two thirds of the old library size as temporary space? Damned! I’m en route and forgot my external HD 
But I will keep you informed about my upgrade procedure when I’m back…
February 5th, 2010
So this is my first blog entry for my newly relaunched website. First of all, if you are looking for my photos you can still access them via my photo-blog website at http://photo.yann-michel.de/
Some of you might ask “why did you change your site”. The answer is quite simple. I wanted to start blogging, i.e., not only photos but also share some of my thoughts. Therefore I had to install a new software (wordpress) for the text blog. As some of you might know, my photo site was based on pixelpost. This might have resulted in two parts of software to patch maintain and so on but I don’t want to do more maintenance than necessary. Therefore, I decided to migrate my photos from pixelpost to wordpress as well. Maybe I will weitr some more details on my migration and new software setup, but I don’t know yet.
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