Keith Dixon

Q: Aperture Library corrupted

I have a large Aperture Library (430 GB) of which I keep several copies on different drives and Macs. Recently I applied the 'reprocess photos' operation to all my photos in order to take advantage of Apple's latest image processing technology. I had found by applying this to a number of photos (versions actually) that it does make for notable improvements.  Whether this had anything to do with my subsequent issue I do not know. Having done so I made the mistake of updating all my copies similarly! But since then Aperture crashes when it is asked to open any copy of my main Aperture Library.

 

I have applied all three corrective processes available, namely 'Repair Permissions', 'Repair Database' and 'Rebuild Database' to my Aperture Library, but to no avail. Aperture continues to crash when asked to my working copy or any copy made thereof. My Aperture app is the latest version, 3.5

 

Should any 'real expert' out there have any constructive suggestion to make as to how to recover from this disastrous situation I should be eternally grateful.

 

I am running El Capitan GM (Build 15F34) on my Mac Pro (mid 2012) with 32 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC, with four internal drives, all with plenty of unused space.

Vuescan, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), Since installing App Store Updates

Posted on Jun 15, 2016 1:03 PM

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  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Jun 15, 2016 2:02 PM in response to Keith Dixon
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    Jun 15, 2016 2:02 PM in response to Keith Dixon

    Have you tried to defer the generation of previews?  YOu may have a corrupted image in your Aperture library, that cannot be processed.

    To test for this, launch Aperture while holding down the Shift key. This will stop the background processing to generate previews.

     

    Does Aperture still crash, when you launch it this way? If not, try to find the image that cannot be processed.

    Open the Activity viewer and try to create the previews manually as described in this User Tip:   How to Screen an Aperture Library for Corrupted Image Files or Videos

  • by Keith Dixon,

    Keith Dixon Keith Dixon Jun 15, 2016 3:01 PM in response to léonie
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    Jun 15, 2016 3:01 PM in response to léonie

    Thank You!!  Aperture launches OK with the shift key down. I must now find the image(s) that cannot be processed. I will follow your quoted User Tip. Thanks to you it seems there may be light at the end of the tunnel! I will report back in due course.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 15, 2016 3:23 PM in response to Keith Dixon
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    Jun 15, 2016 3:23 PM in response to Keith Dixon

    You're welcome.    Good Luck.

    The culprit photo may be one of your older photos since all your older backups caused also crashes.