Q: Aperture Library unavailable in Desktop Background
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Mar 8, 2011 11:12 AMby K.M. - Ken M.,I created a new user, copied the Aperture library and tried with this new user. I was able to get the desktop preferences to show the Aperture library just fine, so I assumed there was nothing wrong with that. So, I went back to the original user and deleted everything out of ~/Library/Preferences. This actually worked for me. Not sure which of the plist files did it for me, but after some time recovering all of my preferences, I am now able to see my Aperture library from the desktop preferences. -
Mar 9, 2011 8:40 PMby K.M. - Ken M.,It happened again after I opened iPhoto. If I have iPhoto and Aperture, I ended up getting into some issues. When it occurred this time, I didn't delete all of the plist files this time. I deleted some of the most recently touched ones (since I was able to catch this right after I opened iPhoto).
Anyway, I was able to fix it, but I think the one that fixed it this time was com.apple.iApps.plist. -
Apr 25, 2011 7:54 PMby Longwalker,I am so glad I found this thread. I have been unable to use my Aperture library for my Desktop Background for most of this past year. I even tried the Apple Store OneToOne Aperture specialists and they couldn't solve it.
But thanks to this thread, and Ken M in particular, I now know that the problem arises after I load up iPhoto. Sure enough, trashing the
com.apple.iApps.plist
file solves the problem for me. Yay!
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Jun 11, 2011 10:35 PMby Scorpio_1989,AGiglio, did you reopen Aperture first before going back to the Desktop & Screen Saver panel?
Ken M, that fixed the problem. I actually went a bit deeper and opened up the com.apple.iApps.plist file and after deleting a couple of things to figure out which lines in the file were causing the problem, I found it was the following:
<key>iPhotoRecentDatabases</key>
<array>
<string>file://localhost/Users/Scorpio/Pictures/iPhoto%20Library/AlbumData.xml< /string>
</array>
I deleted that, saved the changes to the file, and it worked (so far so good). I chose to delete these lines instead of deleting the entire file and getting Aperture to recreate it as there was stuff in it about iMovie and iTunes and wasn't sure what they were so I didn't want to take any risks there. I'm sure if I open iPhoto again it will add those lines back, but I know what to do now, and there is small chance I'll open iPhoto.
Cheers.
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Jul 18, 2011 1:51 PMby Bill Doebler,This worked for me as well. The problem I was having was that the iTunes could not see the Aperture library in order to sync with my mobile devices no matter how much changing of preferences or libraries I did. Deleting the com.apple.iApps.plist files did the trick. I had three .plist files related to iApps in my Preferences folder--all of them pre-dating my installation of Aperture. As soon as they were gone, iTunes was able to see the library perfectly. Thanks, Ken M. and everyone on this thread.
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Jul 20, 2011 2:02 AMby Scorpio_1989,AGiglio, opening Aperture first after deleting the iApps file is what I did (or in my case, deleting the iPhoto parts out of it.
Make sure you don't open iPhoto again until the problem is properly fixed by Apple, otherwise you would have to go through the process of deleting the iApps file again.
I don't know any other way of fixing this as this did the trick for me so I didn't try anything else. Perhaps resintalling Mac and then Aperture as a last method?
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Jul 31, 2011 1:22 AMby clr81,Problem still exists, not going away, none of the solutions offered on this thread have been successful, not a single one resolves the issue.
I did a complete, fresh from total scratch brand-new hard drive installation of Lion (not even from a Snow Leopard upgrade, just a pure install), installed nothing else on the computer except Aperture, moved the Aperture Library over from the old drive, and it has the exact same problem. Nothing has changed. I am STILL getting a console message that says:
7/31/11 1:16:39.952 AM System Preferences: **** DesktopPref error: DSKApertureRootSource -loadData TIME OUT!!! There something wrong with iLife Media Browser
This happens over and over and over and over and over. Clearly something is wrong with my library. How do I possibly diagnose a problem like this? The library is 130 GB and has 60,000 pictures spanning 10 years.
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Jul 31, 2011 1:23 AMby clr81,Let me also be clear that not a single personal setting was transferred over from the old drive and installation. Every single thing on the drive was brand new except for the library itself. No .plist files, no config files, nothing. The issue is in the library and is not resolved.
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Aug 1, 2011 9:48 PMby AGiglio,I FIXED IT!! This is something really stupid, and I know I kicked myself for a little for not checking this earlier. After doing the instructions laid out earlier here about deleting the preferences and such, GO TO THE PREFERENCES IN APERTURE. Look under the "Preview" tab and make sure that "Share previews with iLife and iWork" is set to "Always".
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Aug 5, 2011 7:45 AMby Master_William,I found a solution that works for me.
While holding down the <Option> key, start Aperture. It will bring up a dialog box asking which library/location you want to use. I selected the one I'd been using all along, and lo and behold, now the photos will sync in iTunes. I had to reprocess my library for some, but at least now it can find my library. Hope this works for others.
Cheers
