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Aperture 3 Reportedly Causing Hangs and Memory Leak Issues for Some Users

I downloaded the trial and it crashed on the first use. Definitely not ready for prime time. Sort of sad they've had two years to work on it, it has a scant few groundbreaking new features, and it isn't stable.
 
Are we shocked? Aperture has become quite bloated. There are so many little annoying inconsistencies with Aperture 2 that were never fixed with minor updates. Why would 3 be any different?
 
Maybe this update will fix the issue?

Aperture 3 already updated

"I didn't even have dust on the box yet, but Aperture 3 has scored an update within a few days of its release. The update, according to Apple, "...addresses an issue affecting the playback of video clips used in Aperture 3 slideshows on Snow Leopard."

The update is 65.2 megs to download. If it hasn't popped up for you yet, you can force it from the Apple Menu by selecting 'Software Update.'

I can't tell you it's a great fix because I haven't tried any video in my slideshows yet, but Apple suggests all users get the update.

I other words, be there, or be square."

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/15/aperture-3-already-updated/
 
Weirdly, after I installed it, it crashed when opening for the first two tries, then it crashed when importing a project, then it crashed when working an image, and now it's pretty much stable. I made no chages to anything along the way... it's like the computer had to get used to it or something.

I still haven't imported the old library because of space constraints, but to this point, while it does appear to be processor-heavy as indicated by the fans working so hard my poor C2D MBP is practically airborne, it seems to work if I give it time to beach-ball now and again.
 
I have had little problems with AP3. My library of 24,000 photos from iPhoto imported but was super slow. Took at least 12 hours from start to processing finished. Rebuilt the library by holding down open-apple option, and it is pretty snappy now.

Definitely needs an update patch soon for memory usage and it seems like imports take a lot of extra backend time to complete.
 
Remember when there was some big problem with one of the OS updates? (10.5, I think?) It turned out that the problem was a logitech mouse driver.

If this is something like that, it may take some serious work before they're able to narrow it down. It sure sound like it since it apparently isn't striking everyone.
 
I've had nothing but issues with mine. I went to transfer my iPhoto Library. It essentially lost it? 1000's of pictures. Gone! Luckily I'd had a backup from a few weeks earlier.
This in turn, made me buy a Time Capsule and so far I haven't looked back.

But, I really want Aperture to be 'usable' on my MacBook Pro 15" 2.66GHz 4GB RAM, 320HDD Min 2009 Unibody.

So far. No.

Damn..
 
Aperture 3 is definitely processor/HD access/RAM heavy.

Importing a 45GB photo library (not counting the actual RAW images) actually didn't take *too* long but processing Faces took the better part of 10 hours.

Using Faces is an exercise in frustration due to the incredible slowness (most of my 25k photos are faces . . .)

I have not spent much time doing adjustments/filtering/brushing so I can't yet comment on that.

I will say - do NOT attempt to use Aperture with less than 9GB free on your HD and you'll want an extra 10GB when importing/converting an old photo library. It has to put all that temporary data somewhere!

Apple definitely needs to address the crash and general slowness issues.


MBP 17" 2.8Ghz 4GB RAM
Low Power GPU (on)

I will test Aperture with the higher power GPU on and see if that changes anything.
 
Seems like Apple has been having more and more issues with product introductions. Maybe I am just reading too many rumors.
 
First Snow Leopard, than Aperture... Apple is realllly neglecting its software. Making nice hardware isn't going to compensate for that!

I don't like Aperture anyway, I hate that it copies all of your photos into its own folder structure... Why can't it just leave them where they are dammit? I want to be able to manipulate my photos from the Finder as well... What if I want to send them to someone on Skype, or upload them on the web, I can't do that from Aperture, because draging and dropping only drags the freaking preview file, which is scaled down. I want to own my photos, I don't want my software to own them.
 
ha. i was mentioned in the article..

In Apple's defense, I was contacted by an apple QA manager on sunday regarding one of my posts in the forums..he asked me to upload one of my AP3 libraries that I was having issues with to him (which I had already done the previous day to an apple support representative) so I will say they have noticed the amount of complaints and are actively looking into it.

I would also suggest that anyone who has had problems start the process all over if you have backed up AP2 libraries laying around. I would star with rebuilding those, then I would run them through this script which I found which for the most part eliminated problems that i've been having with aperture dating back to 1.5 and tiger. The script can be found here:

http://www.offthehill.org/articles/2008/03/26/repairing-a-corrupt-aperture-library-myself/

note: the script did not work when i ran it on an upgraded 3.0 library..but when i ran it on old AP2 libraries that I had on a backup disk, I was able to then upgrade those libraries in AP3 without fail.
 
I will say the one thing that was a downer was that my 24,000 iPhoto library (71GB), turned into a 24,000 Aperture Library of 117GB. Even after the rebuild.
 
baryon said:
First Snow Leopard, than Aperture... Apple is realllly neglecting its software. Making nice hardware isn't going to compensate for that!

I don't like Aperture anyway, I hate that it copies all of your photos into its own folder structure... Why can't it just leave them where they are dammit? I want to be able to manipulate my photos from the Finder as well... What if I want to send them to someone on Skype, or upload them on the web, I can't do that from Aperture, because draging and dropping only drags the freaking preview file, which is scaled down. I want to own my photos, I don't want my software to own them.
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you can do this..you just use referenced masters, which is what I use. aside from the fact that I have nearly 2TB worth of images that wouldnt fit on a desktop hard drive, i'd never trust my masters to be sitting inside some library that I need a program to access..i see so many people saying managed masters is a better workflow, but not me. i reference all my masters immediately upon import...had i not done that, i would have lost a huge client this past weekend who was demanding images while i was unable to even access my aperture library because i was experiencing the memory hang issue.
 
baryon said:
I don't like Aperture anyway, I hate that it copies all of your photos into its own folder structure... Why can't it just leave them where they are dammit? I want to be able to manipulate my photos from the Finder as well... What if I want to send them to someone on Skype, or upload them on the web, I can't do that from Aperture, because draging and dropping only drags the freaking preview file, which is scaled down. I want to own my photos, I don't want my software to own them.
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Take a few minutes and watch the Aperture how to videos http://www.apple.com/aperture/how-to/

You can use any directory structure you want, and you can export whatever size and format you want too.
 
verniesgarden said:
more reason to stick with lightroom. i never liked the "photo library" scheme that apple does, I want to be able to easily get to my photos in finder.
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Ummmm, yeah, that's called "Referenced Masters". It's been in Aperture since 1.1, I believe.
 
DO they even test there stuff anymore.

Do they just code and then put a price on it. :confused: Vista had less problems than Apple these past couple of month's.

:D

Really none have affected me though. except the much anticipated Macbook Pro update...
 
Frisco said:
Very slow on my Biondi Blue iMac.
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repair disk permissions.

I haven't been having any performance issues with Aperture, but I have run into some bugs. For example:

If I'm editing a photo in full screen mode and I open the adjustments panel and attach it to either side of the screen then accidentally touch an exposé hot corner the image shrinks a little and I haven't been able to figure out how to put it back to full screen. After that if I exit full screen by pressing F Aperture exits full screen, but the HUD adjustments panel stays where it is. If I press H to get rid of it the panel moves down about ten pixels, but does not disappear. Even pressing the window close button doesn't close the window. I have to restart Aperture to get the HUD to disappear.

This issue is easily repeatable on my computer. Can anyone else do this? Is anyone else running into the problem?
 
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