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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

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  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 17, 2016 6:15 AM in response to schmadde
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    May 17, 2016 6:15 AM in response to schmadde

    Probably not now - you need Aperture 3.6 - maybe this will help but I suspect the time is past to get it - Updating to Aperture 3.6 After the Release of Photos

     

     

    LN

  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie May 17, 2016 6:22 AM in response to schmadde
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    May 17, 2016 6:22 AM in response to schmadde

    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.

  • by schmadde,

    schmadde schmadde May 28, 2016 10:49 PM in response to léonie
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    May 28, 2016 10:49 PM in response to léonie

    This was what I needed to do: After talking to four different people in Apple Support, several emails and one hour in the phone loop I finally got a "content code" to download Aperture 3.6 and this works fine. I am now finally at El Capitan and on the supported side (though overall I like Lion better).

     

    I was advised that App store support was the wrong point of contact, they pointed me towards technical support and in the end only Enterprise support was able to help me.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie May 28, 2016 11:16 PM in response to schmadde
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    May 28, 2016 11:16 PM in response to schmadde

    Thank you for this update. great that you were persistent. 

    Not every user will have access to Enterprise Support.

  • by Gerald Gifford,

    Gerald Gifford Gerald Gifford Jun 10, 2016 8:03 AM in response to schmadde
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    Jun 10, 2016 8:03 AM in response to schmadde

    schmadde wrote:

     

    This weekend I finally wanted to upgrade my MBP from Lion to El Capitan.

    It appears you were finally successful at running Aperture under El Capitan.

    How would you rate Aperture's performance in El Capitan? Would you say you are an arduous user of Aperture for managing and editing a large library of images?

    I want to do the same thing but am a little worried about how Aperture might work in the new OS.

  • by ScotMij,

    ScotMij ScotMij Jun 10, 2016 9:54 AM in response to Gerald Gifford
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    Jun 10, 2016 9:54 AM in response to Gerald Gifford

    I have been running Aperture 3.6 for ages with El Capitan on a 5K iMac, with no serious issues.

  • by Gerald Gifford,

    Gerald Gifford Gerald Gifford Jun 10, 2016 10:23 AM in response to ScotMij
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    Jun 10, 2016 10:23 AM in response to ScotMij

    ScotMij wrote:

     

    I have been running Aperture 3.6 for ages with El Capitan on a 5K iMac, with no serious issues.

    Thanks for your reply.

    Could be I am just a 'worry wart'. I have several very large libraries and would be at a loss to find any one image if I could not find it with Aperture.

    Thanks again!

  • by schmadde,

    schmadde schmadde Jun 12, 2016 7:00 AM in response to Gerald Gifford
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    Jun 12, 2016 7:00 AM in response to Gerald Gifford

    I am just an hobby photographer and did not find much time recently to pursue this. I merely use Aperture to organize and show my photos currently. I had no performance issues so far unter El Capitan. The main reason I bought Aperture back then was the ability to apply changes to photos via brushes (mainly what would be "gray filters" in analog phtotography) and this works quite well without any performance issues.

  • by Gerald Gifford,

    Gerald Gifford Gerald Gifford Jun 12, 2016 8:01 AM in response to schmadde
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    Jun 12, 2016 8:01 AM in response to schmadde

    schmadde wrote:

    this works quitre well without any performance issues.

    Thanks for the reply. I appreciate that you took time to let me know about your Aperture experience.

  • by KJGriffin,

    KJGriffin KJGriffin Sep 13, 2016 7:16 PM in response to schmadde
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    Sep 13, 2016 7:16 PM in response to schmadde

       Late entry into this issue:  I've been running Snow Leopard and Aperture 3.4.5 as long as possible, but wanted to upgrade before I missed the boat entirely and forever once 10.12 is released.  All the posts here were very useful, and I pasted the URL into an online chat at the general support area.  That led to "you need to speak to someone" and they called me immediately (with only a couple minutes on hold.)  The first person was really appreciative of the homework, and based on this discussion put me straight through to Enterprise Support.  The lady there understood the issue and knew the fix was elsewhere, checked and then transferred me to the Pro App Support.  She waited on line to introduce me to that rep, who knew exactly what we needed:  a support ID from the box.  So far, about 8 minutes on the phone after the initial chat. 

       After multiple interstate moves, the first box I found was back from v1.5.  He said it could be made to work, but it would help to have the support # from v3.n.  He put me on hold to get a Pro App Support Supervisor.  By the time he came on line (again introduced by the previous rep), I had found my v3.0 box and read him the support ID.  He then said all would be good and that I would be getting a redemption code somewhere between a couple hours and a couple of days, depending on level of business on their end.  He then gave specific instructions on how to use the redemption code to get Aperture 3.6 listed in my purchases and how that would even let me move it to different machine.  He waited on line until I had his email with his direct contact information, and then rang off.  17 minutes later, I had the code and it worked as advertised. 

       Many thanks to those who have shared their experiences here and made this easier.  Many thanks to the various staff at Apple who made this work without any question or grumbling about supporting a program that was EOL quite some time ago.  Still, it's a loss not to have this software still under development. 

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 13, 2016 11:13 PM in response to KJGriffin
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    Sep 13, 2016 11:13 PM in response to KJGriffin

    It is so good to know, that the Pro AppSupport team has been so helpful in your case. Thanks for sharing that information.