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

Success!!!
How I did it:
1) Uninstalled Aperture 3
2) Trashed Aperture library, plist and pref files
3) Repaired permissions on HD and zapped PRAM
4) Rebuilt iPhoto library (Aperture seems to have problems with "dirty" libraries)
5) Reinstalled Aperture 3
6) Imported iPhoto library as reference, keeping original intact and not importing duplicates
7) Crashed twice on import but relaunched and reimported

Now, 28,000+ images are in Aperture and it's rocking. Hope this helps some people out.

Don't get me wrong, I still think this update was not ready for prime time.
 
Nobody's making anyone use Apple products, if you don't like it - I know plenty of people in Seattle that would love to take your money...

Aperture 3 has been fine for me. In fact, I shot 2,000 frames at the weekend, edited them down and cropped them to 16x9 for editing in Final Cut and made a short film...

I think the point to remember is, if you like it, use it. If you don't, use something else. I have Logitech mouse products, but hate their keyboards - prefer the apple ones. I use Adobe CS, but hate premiere and lightroom, prefer final cut and aperture. I think after almost 10 years as an OS X user I've gotten the balance pretty good. I never did like Motion... Shake always seemed a bit OTT, so After Effects wins...
 
Several people are saying that it is taking 8-48 hours to upgrade their photo libraries.

And Apple thinks that is acceptable?

Sounds to me like the Apple developers were so focused on the giant iPhone that they had to subcontract this upgrade work out to Microsoft.

Wake me up when they come out with version 4.
 
micxmac said:
Several people are saying that it is taking 8-48 hours to upgrade their photo libraries.

And Apple thinks that is acceptable?

Sounds to me like the Apple developers were so focused on the giant iPhone that they had to subcontract this upgrade work out to Microsoft.

Wake me up when they come out with version 4.
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Honestly, I think it's just fine depending on the size of the library and the size of the files that need to be reprocessed.

Personally speaking here, but even as a professional photog I'd never have anywhere near 28,000 plus images stuffed on any HDD of mine. Not all of those images are portfolio quality, and yes, I DO have a library of over 30,000 images; about a third of them will go into my Aperture or Lightroom Libraries.

And given the way Aperture 3 and Lr work, I may separate each genre of photography by library.
 
absolute disaster this upgrade. just deleted my library for the umpteenth time.

an upgrade should NOT delete my library. ever.

thank GOD for backups.
 
Digital Skunk said:
Honestly, I think it's just fine depending on the size of the library and the size of the files that need to be reprocessed.

Personally speaking here, but even as a professional photog I'd never have anywhere near 28,000 plus images stuffed on any HDD of mine. Not all of those images are portfolio quality, and yes, I DO have a library of over 30,000 images; about a third of them will go into my Aperture or Lightroom Libraries.

And given the way Aperture 3 and Lr work, I may separate each genre of photography by library.
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that's your workflow, not mine. and i'm a professional too. So to each their own. i keep all my masters referenced to an external drive, but aperture is the congruit that allows me access to those images. I use Aperture to manage my entire library. After all, that's what it's advertised to do. And it is taking me what looks like will be about 26 hours to RECOVER (not process, but recover my library for the 3rd time) since aperture 3 has destroyed it already on two separate occasions. And this library isnt that large. The library file size is 48GB, and all of the mastes are referenced (about 70,000) images. Shouldnt take this long. Especially since the first two times i took half that time.

Aperture 3 is a complete failure for me.
 
hob said:
Nobody's making anyone use Apple products, if you don't like it - I know plenty of people in Seattle that would love to take your money...

Aperture 3 has been fine for me. In fact, I shot 2,000 frames at the weekend, edited them down and cropped them to 16x9 for editing in Final Cut and made a short film...

I think the point to remember is, if you like it, use it. If you don't, use something else. I have Logitech mouse products, but hate their keyboards - prefer the apple ones. I use Adobe CS, but hate premiere and lightroom, prefer final cut and aperture. I think after almost 10 years as an OS X user I've gotten the balance pretty good. I never did like Motion... Shake always seemed a bit OTT, so After Effects wins...
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sorry, but this isnt an easy solution. glad to hear aperture is working for you, but for those of us who it isnt, it's a problem. i'm an aperture user from version 1.5. I have 80,000 images and nearly 2TB of images tied into aperture currently...so to "use something else" as you suggest would require me to start over, since there is no way to transfer my adjustments to another program. And your analogies are pointless. Aperture is a DATABASE MANAGEMENT software program first, editing suite second. Do you know why companies don't just switch databases overnight? Because it's costly. Time and money. Trying to compare it to switching a mouse or keyboard is silly. So please dont make general statements like that, especially as so many of us are having terrible times getting aperture up and running, and in my case recovering my database which aperture has destroyed twice. It doesnt help, and shows you as being unable to put yourself outside of your own situation. Even when i had aperture running fine for 1/2 a day (before it re-destroyed my library) I would never go on record as saying "works for me, sucks for you, try something else"
 
fiver55 said:
Not sure you are right on this. I did not try NTFS or FAT32 drives but my photos are stores on a NAS, formatted in EXT3 (Linux) and that works fine.
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He is, but I'd always beg this question when dealing with certain issues with software ...

"Why would anyone else need it, because it sounds niche to me?"

I can see the need to reference the masters off of a CF of any other memory card, but I don't read a lot of pros needing to do that. The basic workflow is to ingest, then backup and at that point you have 3 copies of your masters.

There is a Paragon and NTFS 3G for reading and writing to a HDD formatted in NTFS, I can see a need for that more than the memory card referencing. I've never tried it and don't have an NTFS formatted drive to test it.

Either way, not to completely discredit what he's/she's asking, how many situations need those features and is the work-around that much more difficult to pull off.
 
I wanted to give Aperture3 a go.
I have a macbook pro 2009 (5,3) unibody. 15", 2.8Ghz, 4Gb RAM

I tried to load only 1 album (about 100 pics) in the library before importing all my pics.
It imported well, and i entered some names for faces.

Whenever i click on "Places" my cpu goes to 100%, my RAM seems to fill up and it beachballs for ever. Its been 25 mins and its still beachballing (only inAperture, not the whole OS X).

I tried with 3.0, 3.0.1 and 3.0.2.
All same problem... I dont feel like importing my whole library until this is fixed.
Anyone else has this problem ? Anyone knows how to make places work ? I was really looking forward this feature.

Once i start Aperture3 and click on places i get this:

VM Size: 1.73Gb
Free: 19mb
Wired: 858mb
Active: 1.66Gb
Inactive: 1.49Gb
Used: 3.99Gb

Aperture takes 99,9% of CPU 36 Threads. It's running in 64bits mode.
Thanks
 
Digital Skunk said:
He is, but I'd always beg this question when dealing with certain issues with software ...

"Why would anyone else need it, because it sounds niche to me?"

I can see the need to reference the masters off of a CF of any other memory card, but I don't read a lot of pros needing to do that. The basic workflow is to ingest, then backup and at that point you have 3 copies of your masters.

There is a Paragon and NTFS 3G for reading and writing to a HDD formatted in NTFS, I can see a need for that more than the memory card referencing. I've never tried it and don't have an NTFS formatted drive to test it.

Either way, not to completely discredit what he's/she's asking, how many situations need those features and is the work-around that much more difficult to pull off.
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Tuxera NTFS is better than Paragon.
 
How about turning off faces and places, do the import and then turn them back on and let A3 run to completion?

Just a thought.

Punker said:
I wanted to give Aperture3 a go.
I have a macbook pro 2009 (5,3) unibody. 15", 2.8Ghz, 4Gb RAM

I tried to load only 1 album (about 100 pics) in the library before importing all my pics.
It imported well, and i entered some names for faces.

Whenever i click on "Places" my cpu goes to 100%, my RAM seems to fill up and it beachballs for ever. Its been 25 mins and its still beachballing (only inAperture, not the whole OS X).

I tried with 3.0, 3.0.1 and 3.0.2.
All same problem... I dont feel like importing my whole library until this is fixed.
Anyone else has this problem ? Anyone knows how to make places work ? I was really looking forward this feature.

Once i start Aperture3 and click on places i get this:

VM Size: 1.73Gb
Free: 19mb
Wired: 858mb
Active: 1.66Gb
Inactive: 1.49Gb
Used: 3.99Gb

Aperture takes 99,9% of CPU 36 Threads. It's running in 64bits mode.
Thanks
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I can no longer open any Pro APPS

The Aperture 3 upgrade from Aperture 2 has really made a mess of everything on two of my computers. First the imac went. Apple is just replacing the computer.
Now I installed Aperture 2 from my disks and then installed the upgrade to 3.
My new mac book pro is starting to have the same problems.
I can see that this is all Aperture related. I thought last night I would order Lightroom since Apple could not be bothered on the weekends about Aperture.
Greater problems has since started. None of the pro Apps will now open. The V memory is all used up. Nothing is left. The computer is running dangerously slow. I still don't have my imac back and Im now loosing this unit as well.
Apple confirmed last week that they yes had to even replace my mother board in the imac due to some software problem.
My only thanks is that I had been saving all my files to back-up hard drives.

I highly recommend that no one installs the upgrade to Aperture 3.
I here some of you that just purchased the whole Aperture 3 has no problems, thats only because you have no previously corrupted files from Aperture 2.

Apple seems to not be addressing the Aperture problems at this point. They deny that there is any memory leaks.
 
Froghouse said:
The Aperture 3 upgrade from Aperture 2 has really made a mess of everything on two of my computers. First the imac went. Apple is just replacing the computer.
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Wow. Sounds like you had some bad hardware. I have a REALLY hard time believing Aperture (or any software for that matter) would be able to do what you describe, and I've seen a LOT of strange bugs in my time (I'm a software engineer). It is possible that Aperture's use of, for instance, the video card, has triggered an existing hardware failure. But causing one is pretty much outside the scope of what can be done in software without doing some really low-level things that I know for a fact Aperture is not doing (because I can look in the app's package and see that it's not doing anything in Ring0).

FWIW, I did have a large (250GB+) Aperture 2.0 library which I migrated over to Aperture 3 without any issues. I did make sure the database wasn't corrupted prior to upgrading, though, so I avoided a lot of the headaches others have seen with the upgrade.

That having been said, my sympathies. Luckily Apple's replacing your hardware for you and you had backups of everything (which wouldn't matter with a motherboard replacement).
 
Aperture upgrade = desaster for me.

Wasn't there some guy running around calling other companies' developers lazy ? Steve, meet kettle.
 
My Virgin Post...Aperture is Screwing me!

Aperture wont believe me!!!

So, I downloaded Aperture 3 trial version then updated with my serial after it was purchased somewhere...ignorantly performed a system update and now I have to type my serial in every time I open aperture...all info is intact but how do I get around this sign up process each time?

My first post so do me good!
 
This is why I love Mac!

So I just posted my small Aperture 3 issue that requires me to type a serial number in every time I open Aperture 3...5 minutes later I attempt to open it with my serial already copied...but it loaded on up. I have been with my entry level mac for over a year now and even though I have treated it like a PC (i was sooo new) Mac keeps forgiving me!
 
Cancel That

Its Still Happening...i Just Had Not Refreshed My Mac So It Was Still "on File" So To Speak...

Anyone Got An Idea Of A Quick Fix?
 
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