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jeanie30

Q: Why is my loupe not magnifying

Just loaded Mountain Lion (don't know if this is relevant) but now the loupe in Aperture has stopped working.   There is no magnification just a greyed out circle.

MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Dec 28, 2012 5:50 AM

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Q: Why is my loupe not magnifying

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  • by Frank Caggiano,

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Dec 28, 2012 5:51 AM in response to jeanie30
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    Dec 28, 2012 5:51 AM in response to jeanie30

    What version of Aperture?

  • by jeanie30,

    jeanie30 jeanie30 Dec 28, 2012 6:16 AM in response to Frank Caggiano
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    Dec 28, 2012 6:16 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

    version 2.1.4.   I tried rebuillding library with opt cmd but made no difference.

  • by Frank Caggiano,Helpful

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Dec 28, 2012 6:32 AM in response to jeanie30
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    Dec 28, 2012 6:32 AM in response to jeanie30

    Aperture 2, I was afraid of that. There have been reported problems with Aperture 2 running on Mountain Lion, your loupe issue being one of them.

     

    Aperture 2 is old software and is no longer supported by Apple. In addition few if any of the contributors here run 2 (myself included) and have no way to test or explore the problem on our machines.

     

    While this isn;t the solution you;d like to hear I would strongly recommend you update Aperture now that you are running Mountain Lion. You'll have a better user experience in the long run.

     

    regards

  • by skyguy3,

    skyguy3 skyguy3 Apr 13, 2013 7:53 AM in response to jeanie30
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    Apr 13, 2013 7:53 AM in response to jeanie30

    For those who need to use the loupe and do not want to update I found this workaround. It seems the problem is with Disk Permissions, so with Aperture closed repair the disk permissions.

     

    (Open Utilities, then open Disk Utility, select disk, then click on Repair Disk Permissions.)

     

    Open Aperture, select Loupe, press "M" (Show Master Image) or "Z" (Zoom to Actual Size), now the Loupe should work for current session.

     

    You will have to Repair Disk Permissions every time before opening Aperture for this workaround.

     

    My Versions:

    OS X  10.7.5

    Aperture 2.1.4