Q: How to get Aperture working on El capitan
This weekend I finally wanted to upgrade my MBP from Lion to El Capitan.
After upgrading Aperture no longer worked. I remembered there was a problem running aperture on Yosemite and wanted to migrate to lightroom maybe, but I had no time yet and have hundreds of gigabytes of photos in Aperture already.
A magazine suggested to delete aperture from disk and reinstall via App store to get the latest version that supposedly works under El Capitan.
That did not work for me - I could not find Aperture in App store. I originally bought Aperture for $200 on DVD, not via app store.
How can I get the latest version of aperture, so I can upgrade my OS now and migrate from aperture away later?
Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Posted on May 17, 2016 6:11 AM
Which version of Aperture do you have?
See this user tip:
Updating to Aperture 3.6 After the Release of Photos
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-8402
It is not easy to update Aperture, because Apple stopped the developement, and you cannot buy it any longer from the AppStore. Even updating does no longer work. Only If you own a version of Aperture 3.6, that appears in your Purchases history (the fourth tab of the App Store) you can update by deleting Aperture and reinstalling. That will install Aperture 3.6.
Have you checked if Aperture is hidden in your Purchases?
Try to unhide it, see this link: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4928
If you own Aperture 3, but an older version, not associated with the App Store, because you never updated beyond Aperture 3.4.5, you can try to talk the AppStore support into providing a redeem code, so you can download Aperture 3.6. Sometimes the App Store Support obliged with such a code, to make the El Capitan upgrade possible for owners of professional applications.
Posted on May 17, 2016 6:22 AM