Green grid overlay distortion when viewing photos in Aperture

Stranger and stranger
I had closed Aperture and ejected and reconnected my external drive that holds the library (trying to solve another problem) and restarted Aperture.
Read your post so went back to the 'green ghost' and .... nothing was wrong !! it was perfect in the preview as if I had imagined it.

So, i started to experiment ... turn off adjustments, etc, as that had caused the green to appear in others and voila!... green again.

What I had done: I turned off the levels and image was fine, turned levels back on and image went green.
I remember that this is how it started on other images, but it was with highlight/shadow: Apply the adjustment, image is fine, turn off the adjustment, image is fine, turn the adjustment back on: green, and from that point on it's off-fine, on-green.

at any rate,
library: external with firewire (Nexstar2) (bought the drive and case separately)
mac os 10.6.1
aperture 2.1.2
jpg, it seems
referenced files (is that when you import and leave files in the original location?)
Elizabeth

Elizabeth
nice that you have been able to isolate one of the causes for the issue.

first point though, update Aperture and try it again. Version 2.1.4 is reported as working well with Snow Leopard by most of those on the forum who are up to speed with it, some others are having issues though.

Check format of external drive, is it Mac OS extended?

If you have room and time, you might like to try the process on your internal drive, export the project or a project with a few of the images in it and start a new library on your internal drive.

Tony

Did you actually say Aperture 2.1.2?

Aperture 2.1.4 resolves issues that some older versions (2.1.2 and 2.1.3) had with 10.6. No version of Aperture prior to 2.1.4 is supported with Snow Leopard, so if there are issues, Apple hasn't even tested them -- you should upgrade.

My setup for troubleshooting:

- OS 10.6.1
- Aperture: 2.1.4
- Library on external drive (FW 800)
- Sometimes other external drives connected, sometimes not - still get the green meanies
- RAW files (from a Canon 5D)

I should also say the images are managed, not referenced - the whole library (and all its images are on the external drive).

Thank you I will try that
Eliz

Have you tried creating a library on your internal drive and testing it without the firewire drives connected?

Tony

I just tried that, with a local Library on my internal drive, and no external drives attached. No luck:

http://www.clearingthevision.com/images/aperture_fail2.jpg

That was while I was in Full screen mode, adjusting saturation. When I go to another view, the green stuff goes away, but when I return to full screen, it's back. So it only affects the view I was in when I made the adjustment.

Let me know if you have any success. Full screen mode is a problem for my machine as well. Regardless whether rebuilding plist files, relaunching and rebuilding the database, rebuilding data forks, emptying caches, fixing font duplicates by using "resolve" or just deleting of old fonts, rebooting machine with power button depressed, booting into single user mode to reset the machine, clearing PRAM with 3 or 4 boot chimes, eliminating all plugins, unplugging accessories, installing new printer drivers, etc. and then a reinstall on a new HD, new Aperture install, new library with 100 photos from new memory card, new RAM, changing program features/options....

still a graphics issue

The most important information did not come from apple, but from sources citing problems with graphic card drivers and Snow Leopard, specifically regarding Apple's OpenGL implementation of these drivers. I have exhausted all possibilities to three: new mac, with no issues (hopefully), new program (Lightroom), new update to drivers or SL

"apple insider" just released notes about the next SL update seed. Read it.

Well, I upgraded to 2.1.4 and still have the same issue
Usually, the green happens in preview, not in full screen, but tonight it happened in full screen, when i had 2 images side by side.
Both images only had the straighten and crop applied, but only one showed a green corner, not the full image.
But flipping the adjustments on and off, and in and out of full screen and the green eventually went away.
I had already moved my library (as a test) to the HD to see if that would help, but obviously didn't.
But it seems to be workable, just annoying and an inefficient use of time.
Elizabeth

Guys this is sounding like a definite bug somewhere within the application, system, hardware interface, if you have not already done so it would be well worth providing feedback to Apple on your issues with this.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/aperture.html

As you may or may not be aware this is a user forum and there is not guarantee that anyone who can effect a resolution to a programming issue is actually monitoring this forum.

Tony

Same as above. I was wondering if anyone had any new information with the green screen problem. I am having the same issues in the full screen mode. I have reinstalled the OS (10.6.2) and Aperture several times. Apple has my laptop now but all they can think to do is reinstall the OS again. Looking for help....

Hank

I was wondering if anyone had any new information with the green screen problem. I am having the same issues in the full screen mode. I could see that this problem only affect the view on full screen.

I have this happen on my MacBookPro frequently since Snow Leopard update. If I zoom into the image, then zoom back out, it seems to disappear.

Jim