Well, maybe in some instances. . . but I learned a lesson today that I want to pass on. I wanted to find some RAW images from a trip to Venice this past April, so went to the place I normally would put them, my Aperture 2009 Library. Oddly enough, they weren't there. No Album, no Project, no sign of any.
I then used Spotlight to search by date & type, no luck. Then I remembered that I had offloaded the pictures to my laptop computer and figured they were still there. Some were, but not all. And not enough. So, starting to panic, I kept looking on the laptop and the MacPro. I had a name of an image as modified, just not the original file, so I searched on the number and found the whole set of images in a folder for Venice09 on an external harddrive in a folder "Duplicates to Trash?" WHEW! Thank goodness it almost takes an Act of Congress to get me to toss things, even after months.
This just solidifies my default mechanism of saving until I'm absolutely sure I don't need them. Or at least not without burning to CD or DVD backup copy.
