Q: Almost every shoot I do, Aperture manages to corrupt 5-10 RAW images?

Sorry for not going through this huge thread and reading every step you've taken, but have you:

Made a new library and see if you still experience this corruption?

Tried importing with a new user account to see if you still experience the corruption?

You've imported directly to the computer and opened the image files with Preview and iPhoto and Photoshop and the only time you see corruption is when you import to Aperture?

You import directly from the camera and used different cables and cards and still experience the corruption?

Actually I guess the only question that is relevant is the one concerning the fact that you only see this corruption in Aperture and no where else.

So just to clarify that, if you import to your desktop (or wherever), all your images are perfect everytime, you can open them in any other software and see no corruption, but when you import them to Aperture, they go bad. Is that correct?

I was hopeful, but not too hopeful, that the Combo Update for the OSX might fix something.  The reason I was not too hopeful is that the Combo would not directly address a problem with the Aperture application itself, nor perhaps with Digital Camera RAW which I was suspicious of.

Do you have iPhoto, and did you as suggested, import the RAW .CR2 file into iPhoto?  This would be another test of the impact, if any, of Camera RAW, but since Preview did not have the problem, it probably is not Camera RAW at fault.

Another useful test would be to create a New Aperture Library on separate disk drive -- either a Firewire or USB external drive could test whether the corruption will happen in an Aperture Library away from your main drive.

Ernie

I was hoping I could use my wireless time capsule to store my imports, however it appears you can't?!!? Is this because of the wireless feature? (too much data etc?)

 

If anyone can tell me how to import onto my time capsule without using the main drive, that would be great.

Daniel,

Aperture is not designed as a network database. The Aperture library needs to be on a local volume, that is formatted MacOS Extended. Your Time Capsule is neither local nor correctly formatted. That is a risky set-up. See this support article by Apple:

Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3252

Regards

Léonie

Daniel,

Is there a guarented way I can completely uninstall Aperture and redownload it without losing my library?

How to uninstall Aperture is described in the last paragraph of the Troubleshooting Basics:

     Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805

On OS Lion you basically  just need to drag the the Application to the Trash, but keep your Aperture Library. Reinstalling will not delete your Aperture Library.

Regards

Léonie

So is the library and/or the masters on the time capsule?

It could be but didn't you already create a different library and get the corruption with this new library? That would tend to rule out the disk.

To be honest given the length of time you've been having the probelm and the amount of entries in this thread you might be well past being able to get help here. If you're near an Apple Store it might be time to get someone to look at the problem in person.

At this point it's not even possible for me to figure out whats been done. I think you're going to be best off by starting over from scratch in trying to figure this out.  There is a soluation, the program and the hardware work but I honestly don't think the answer will be found in this thread.

Anyway that's my opinion. Good luck

regards

Thx (Danka) to LeonieDF for pointing me at this discussion board.

I have exactly the same problems as Daniel. Common items I seem to have: iMAC, OS Lion, Canon Raw, H/W issue with my iMac (Daniel replaced whole computer, techies at Apple just replaced disk on mine after initial crash back in Nov shortly after migrating to Lion), there is no rhyme or reason for corruptions to occur and they happen randomly either on Master and/or Preview and/or download to desktop or to mail or within Aperture display itself.

Totally frustrating. Doesn't appear to be issue with camera, USB cable, memory cards or anything related as to how things are uploaded to Aperture from the capture medium.

Problems seemed to start after upgrade to Lion and subsequent hard drive failure/replacement by Apple. My suspicion is centered on interphase problems between video card (?) and Aperture itself while running on Lion.

Hate to lug the 27 inch iMAC to the Apple Store again but this time I have this thread to show them that I'm not the only one. Previously GeniusBar was useless even after seeing the corruption. Problem is in trying to find a consistent way to show this happening. Totally random!!! Some corrupted images actually might change during a session or switch-out between the Master and the Preview!

Thank you everyone for your suggestions in this discussion... but just as Daniel discovered none of the suggestions seemed to work out a solution. That's why

I am more and more leaning to the fact that this is a hardware or software interface problem within the MAC or MAC operating system if its not Aperture iteself.

Daniel,

did you have any success at the Apple store Genius Bar?