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Q: Aperture preferences error

In Aperture, when I go to Aperture >> Preferences the only window that appears is this one:

 

Screen Shot 2013-07-28 at 16.48.12.png

As a result, I cannot fix an External Editor or do anything else.

 

Does anyone know what to do to fix this please?

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jul 28, 2013 8:52 AM

by léonie,Solvedanswer
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A:

Oops, I meant "Finder > Go!  

 

It should look like thisScreen Shot 2013-07-28 at 21.15.42MESZ.PNGis:

Posted on Jul 28, 2013 12:24 PM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 28, 2013 10:31 AM in response to zammeree
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    Jul 28, 2013 10:31 AM in response to zammeree

    Try the following - as a test: Launch Aperture from a different user account, for example the Guest account. If you see the correct preferences panel there,  go back to your regulare user account and remove the Aperture preferences file com.apple.Aperture.plist from the Preferences folder in your user library.

     

    How to remove the Aperture's user preferences from the User Library as described here:

    Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics

     

     

    Note:

    Your User Library is hidden by default in 10.7.5 - to open it in a Finder window use the "Go" menu from the Finder's main menu bar.

    • Quit Aperture, if it is running. Log off and on again.
    • Open the user library by using the Finder's "Go > Go to Folder" menu and hold down the options-key, until "Library" appears in the drop down menu. Select it.
    • In the widow that will open, scroll down to "Preferences"
    • From the "Preferences" folder  remove "com.apple.Aperture.plist".

    Then try to launch Aperture again.

     

    But deleting the "Preferences" file will cause Aperture to forget the preferences settings. Be prepared to have to reset all options you set using the Aperture Preferences panel.

     

    Regards

    Léonie

  • by zammeree,

    zammeree zammeree Jul 28, 2013 11:20 AM in response to léonie
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    Jul 28, 2013 11:20 AM in response to léonie

    The file that your refer to is not in the Library folder. The closest match is:

     

    com.apple.RegAperture.plist

     

    Should I delete that file?

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 28, 2013 11:31 AM in response to zammeree
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    Jul 28, 2013 11:31 AM in response to zammeree

    The closest match is:

     

    com.apple.RegAperture.plist

     

    Should I delete that file?

     

     

    Then you are looking in the System library /Library/Preferences  and not in your hidden User Library ~/Library/Preferences.

     

    Remember, the User Library is hidden from the user by default. You cannot open it from the Finder unless you change the file attributes from the Terminal.

    So use the Finder's "Go" menu to reveal the hidden user library, as I described above:

    • from the Finder's main menu bar:   "Go > Go to Folder" menu and hold down the alt/options-key⌥  , until "Library" appears in the drop down menu. Select it.
    • In the widow that will open, scroll down to "Preferences"
    • From the "Preferences" folder  remove "com.apple.Aperture.plist".

  • by zammeree,

    zammeree zammeree Jul 28, 2013 11:47 AM in response to léonie
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    Jul 28, 2013 11:47 AM in response to léonie

    I thought so but I do not have a drop down menu in that window regardless of the time I hold down the option key.

     

    Screen Shot 2013-07-28 at 19.46.53.png

    That is the Go > Go to Folder  window that I get

  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Jul 28, 2013 12:24 PM in response to léonie
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    Jul 28, 2013 12:24 PM in response to léonie

    Oops, I meant "Finder > Go!  

     

    It should look like thisScreen Shot 2013-07-28 at 21.15.42MESZ.PNGis: