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Oct 22, 2015 6:47 AM in response to tbertlesonby léonie,Which version of Aperture do you have?
On Yosemite 10.10.5 you need Aperture 3.6. Is that the version you are having installed?
Aperture can no longer be purchased from Apple. If Aperture is showing at the Mac App Store in your Purchases History try to update by reinstalling.
See my User Tip here: Updating to Aperture 3.6 After the Release of Photos
If you do not see Aperture among your purchase history, you can only update with the help of Apple Support. Try to talk the App Store Support into issuing a redeem code, so you can download the update.
but Aperture will not open or move.
Have you tried to open the Aperture library in Photos? Photos is supposed to be able to convert any Aperture Library to Photos format. It will create a migrated copy.
See: How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support
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Oct 22, 2015 8:12 AM in response to léonieby tbertleson,I have 10.10.5 and Aperture 3.6
I have tried to open the Aperture Library in Photos. It says it is building the library, gets to 11% and stays there and never goes past even after 10 hours trying.
I try to open the aperture library on my hard drive with Aperture and get an error that says - Aperture cannot switch to the selected library because the file system of the library’s volume is not supported.
Any other suggestions? You advice so far is much appreciated.
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Oct 22, 2015 8:21 AM in response to tbertlesonby léonie,Aperture cannot switch to the selected library because the file system of the library’s volume is not supported.
Then that is the problem. An Aperture library needs to be on drive formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled). What is the filesystem on your external HD?
If you have different external drive with the correct filesystem, move the Aperture library there and try again to open it in Aperture or Photos.
In Aperture you can try to repair the library before opening it, once it has been moved to a correctly formatted drive.
See this manual page: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual
And this page describes how to format an external drive for Aperture: Format external drives to Mac OS Extended before using with Aperture - Apple Support
If you need to reformat a drive, save the contents to a different drive, because reformatting will erase the drive.