Ran1978

Q: Aperture not quitting completely

Hello

I juat purchased the new 2.7 GHz iMac 21" with 8GB Ram and set it us from the TM backup of my old Macbook Pro. I also downloaded  Aperture a few days ago as an upgrade to my existing iPhoto and I set it up using my exting iPhoto Library which has over 6000 Photos including several Videos.

I have been using Aperture for Editing and taking Prints etc which works great except sometimes its seems a bit slow which is still acceptable.

My problem is that on quitting the application its closed the window but does not completely quit because it shows the little white dot below the dock Icon. I waited for a few minutes thinking that there must be a background shut down process but after loosing patience I right clicked on teh Dock icon and it says that the application is not responding. I have to eveytime Force Quit this application or else I cannot open it again.

 

I pressed cmd+Opt before starting the application and excuted all teh 3 steps given in there but still teh same problem the applcation doesnt want to quit.

I am not really happy to force quit it everytime.

 

Ran

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), The latest iMac 21"

Posted on Dec 27, 2012 4:59 AM

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  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Dec 27, 2012 5:11 AM in response to Ran1978
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    Dec 27, 2012 5:11 AM in response to Ran1978

    This looks like you may have imported an image file or a video that Aperture cannot process. I suspect, that Aperture is trying to render previews, when you are quitting (Check your Aperture preferences in the "Previews" tab). And if you have incompatible videos or corrupted image files, Aperture may stall or crash. To check forthis, disable the creation of previews in the Aperture preferences. If this lets you quit immediately, then you know, that one of your files needs to be removed.

     

    Sometimes also an incompatible video codec may be causing this.

     

    Do you have the third-party 3ivx QuickTime plug-inplug-in installed? Then remove it, as described here. Aperture 3: May be unresponsive or have slower performance with third-party video codec

     

    Regards

    Léonie

  • by Ran1978,

    Ran1978 Ran1978 Dec 27, 2012 5:36 AM in response to léonie
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    Dec 27, 2012 5:36 AM in response to léonie

    Hi LeonieDF,

    Thanks I disabled the creation of previews and then quit Aperture and it instantly quit. Now how do I find this corrupted file in my large photo collection. Is there are command for this.

    I know for sure that I have 5 images that have discolored i.e. have turned half green and some half orange. DO you think these are the files that are corrupted??

     

     

    These are the files I found in the Quicktime library. Is anyone of it a 3ivx Quick time plugin.

     

    file://localhost/Library/QuickTime/AppleIntermediateCodec.component/

    file://localhost/Library/QuickTime/AppleMPEG2Codec.component/

    file://localhost/Library/QuickTime/CanonMJPEGAVI.component/

    file://localhost/Library/QuickTime/DivX%20Decoder.component/

    file://localhost/Library/QuickTime/DivX%20Encoder.component/

    file://localhost/Library/QuickTime/XviD_Codec%201.0%20alpha.component/

     

     

    Thanks so much.

  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Dec 27, 2012 7:24 AM in response to Ran1978
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    Dec 27, 2012 7:24 AM in response to Ran1978

    . Now how do I find this corrupted file in my large photo collection. Is there are command for this.

    Unfortunately not - you can only use trial and error.

    Probably the corrupted image is within your most recent import, a pity, that this are so mamy images.

    You can pick each of your five suspect images in turn, select them, then select the command "Photos > Update Preview" and hold down the alt/options key to turn the command into "Generate Preview".

    If you found the correct culprit, Aperture should crash or hang. Then delete this image.

     

    If none of your discolored images is corrupted, search systematically:

    Create two album - each holding half of your recently imported iPhoto images.

    Try to generate Previews by selecting one half of the images at once - if this succeeds, you will know, the images are o.k. and you can clear this album. Then move half of the images from the second album to the first, and try again.

     

    Kepp up testing half of the remaining images, until you hit a set, that forces Aprture to stall again. By subdividing you should be able to test 6000 images with splitting the test set only nine times.

     

    Good Luck

    Léonie