Aperture 3 hanging... and hanging... and chewing...

Same problem here!! 😟

The problem occurs during face recognition. Now I have disabled "Faces" from Aperture Preferences and it seems to work fine.

Hoping this problem will fixed soon...

Same thing happened here today, although mine was a fresh install and import from iphoto 9 (after yesterday's update).

Crashed twice and the culprit seems to be faces. On third attemt all was imported but some "faces" no longer appear. It's like A3 recognises there's a face but then does not show it in the thumbnail

Don't sweat it, there's a lot going on in the background once your loaded and/or database converted. Not just "face recognition" but also "processing" (I think it's updating raw conversions with the latest and greatest.

Slow, beachballs, delays last night it was horrible. I let it run overnight and just checked - no activity, whatever it was doing is done. Everything is crisp and very zippy now!! I feel so much better now!

Oh, and my database was 260 gig.

Mark

Pre reqs to converting to Ap 3 are discussed in
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3945

I think a lot of queries are answered on the above web page

The funny thing is, that even though turning off "Faces" and Geo Tagging give you the illusion that it is working better, it's still atrociously slow. I ran a test on my Mac Pro last night, Aperture 2 vs Aperture 3, and my Aperture 2 ran circles around A3. I mean, why is it that when I do a brush stroke, it takes a few seconds before it actually catches up with what I just did on the screen? Why is it that processing images which I imported takes twice as long as it did on A2? Why is it that when I zoom to 100% I can almost watch the 3 passes it takes before the photo is loaded?

Even though there are some performance issues with A2, it sure as **** beats A3! There is no good God **** reason that this software should have been delivered to the customer without "proper" testing. If they had done some "real world" testing, then they would have found out about this right from the get go. That's the problem with their secrecy, no beta testers to report problems out in the field.

I've tried Lightroom, I've tried Nik Capture NX 2, and to be honest I like Aperture the best. However, this latest snafu is just embarrassing. Unless Apple gets their proverbial **** together, I may have to consider moving to Lightroom as a result. I sure hope they make a public statement or an update to fix this in the next few days, because otherwise the contemplations may become reality.

I have been nothing short of happy as **** with my Apple products over the years, but this is the first time that I can honestly say that I am utterly disappointed in Apple for putting out a products that clearly has issues, and major ones at that.

I spent the day exporting A2 projects and importing them into A3 after issues with the A2 library. Now everything appears to be working well.

The problem is that we shouldn't "have" to do this to make it work. ****, I imported some NEF's straight into my trial library and still had performance issues. It should be a seamless, straightforward thing to upgrade your library. I don't recall having these issues when upgrading from 1.5 to 2.

I installed the Aperture 3 Trial and have had issues with performance as well. The brushes are almost unusable at times. They aren't smooth to brush adjustments. I often have to wait for the adjustment to catch up after a brush stroke. I also have experienced video driver issues where the photo turns green or magenta and has lines through it. Even changing things like exposure, contrast, etc are slow. I change the slider and wait for the change to occur in the image. The image also tends to go very low res for a second or so until the change is applied. The picture looks kind of blurry at that point. I am currently testing the Lightroom 3 Beta and have found it's performance to be superior to both Aperture 2 and 3. The adjustment brushes in Lr3 work flawlessly. It's unfortunate because I feel Aperture is a more useful tool and I really want to love it, but with Lightroom 3's performance and better integration with Photoshop I am thinking I will end up buying Lightroom when it is released.

my cpu % is at 185 +/- when doing any little edit in Aperture! 185%! And real memory is at 2gb... A crop in Aperture 3 takes 185% or CPU and 2gb of real memory. Wow. Not impressive.

But then, and I hate to say it, perhaps Apple is hoping that we'll all just purchase a new 8 Core Mac Pro with 16gb of ram... That would solve it, wouldn't it. 😉

I'm also having a nightmare upgrading my library to Aperture 3. My library contains about 12,000 pictures, and was sized 18GB.

After the initial upgrade of the library, Aperture is completely unusable. It also takes up so much CPU, that the entire operating system is unusable while Aperture is opened.

I understand its normal at first for Aperture to be slow because it is upgrading all the pictures (I turned off Faces). But the problem is, if I give Aperture all the time it needs, it fails because OS X complains there is no more memory available for the application. Aperture says it's processing, but the activity window shows its always at 0 of 1201 items to process. My entire 35GB of free space on my hard drive gets completely taken by Aperture. If I kill aperture, my HD slowly comes back to 35GB of free space. If I restart Aperture, it takes about an hour to eat up all the available space and it gets stopped complaining it doesn't have memory.

I've done this about 4 times now, and I have no idea if there's any progress being made in the upgrade. If I try cancelling the "Processing" task in the Activity window, it takes forever and never actually cancels it (it gets stuck at "Cancelling").

I guess I'll have to pull my backup and start over again. Very very disappointed with this purchase...