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

was totally stoked about upgrading today. now i'm kicking myself in the pants for doing it so quickly.

when i came home for lunch, i installed A3, typed in my purchased Upgrade serial, and then allowed A3 to upgrade my old A2 library. obviously, this was gonna take awhile, so i left it running whilst i went back to the office. when i returned home, i discovered my MBP had actually frozen. ok, that was weird. i had to do a hard shut down (hold down power button) and then reboot. everything comes back fine, i reopen A3, and its just processing "files." i let that go for about 15 minutes, come back, and the MBP has just sloooooowed to a crawl. i mean awful. it was like being at a concert: beach balls of death EVERYWHERE.

i didn't want to, but i had to force quit A3 to do anything else. so i did that, did a normal Restart, and then reopened A3. still processing, same chain of events. i mean, it was terrible.

so finally, FINALLY, i get down to the last 12 "files" or "items" or whatever, and A3 seems to be really stuck on these last 12. it'll just sit there and churn away whilst eating up all system resources and giving my BBODs whenever i move the cursor around.

so... what's going on here? i've tried repairing the database as outlined in the recently update Aperture manual (to no real end; didn't fix anything), and my next step, i suppose, is rebuilding the database. is anyone else having a problem like this? i've seen lots of folks having fairly terrible times with the move, but nothing quite like this. i've a fairly large library (not really giant by any means).

so: help!

2.26gHz Intel MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Feb 9, 2010 8:56 PM

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Feb 9, 2010 9:08 PM in response to lukelucas

From all that I have been reading, it sounds like the only happy folks after installing Aperture 3 are those with the most powerful MacPro's. This is very disappointing. There could have been 2,000 new features but they are useless if the application runs so slow. Beachballs belong on a beach....not in a professional application.

Feb 9, 2010 9:13 PM in response to col4bin

col4bin wrote:
From all that I have been reading, it sounds like the only happy folks after installing Aperture 3 are those with the most powerful MacPro's. This is very disappointing. There could have been 2,000 new features but they are useless if the application runs so slow. Beachballs belong on a beach....not in a professional application.



Nope. I've got a Mac Pro and 6GB of memory and suffering the same problem. What's happening here is during the migration, Aperture is using up all available memory, and OS X beings swapping processes to the disk. That is why things are slowing to a crawl -- and us Mac Pro users have the same problem. People with lots and lots of memory might be ok, though. Amazing that 6GB doesn't qualify as "lots and lots" anymore.

Feb 9, 2010 9:16 PM in response to lukelucas

really? i just don't get that, then. i know what the "minimum" specs say, but i've a 2009 MBP and 4gb of RAM sitting in here, certainly nothing to sneeze at. hm.

i called Apple this afternoon with a relatively stupid question (not about this, though; this question was pre-debacle) and we got to talking about the update/upgrade process and i'm remembering him suggesting importing projects one at a time, instead of migrating. anyone tried that?

Feb 9, 2010 9:27 PM in response to lukelucas

Same here - 2yr old Alum iMac, 4G RAM, intel dual 2.4GHz, 250Gb free on boot drive.

I had to fully force-quit two times so far. Brutal. Within less than a minute, A3 has gobbled up 95% of RAM (whatever RAM's available: 4Gb minus whatever the sys & finder use).

I was able to get in and disable faces, thinking that would reduce the load some. It fully locked up, mouse & all, after that, too. Now faces is off, and as soon as the app opens (after "repair lib" each time, just in case), I jump to the activity window, select the one "processing 1500 items" activity, and try to pause it/cancel it.

That's where I am, FWIW, it looked like it was gonna lock up again (SBBOD, can't switch to finder, can't app swx with cmd-tab)

It's been quite a few years since I've had any app, let alone an apple one, repeatedly break the everloving snot out of a well-maintained mac. (maybe ProTools cards & SCSI drives on the Quadra 650 in 1994? lol)

Feb 9, 2010 9:30 PM in response to stevenbrown

yeah, that's the weird thing for me, too: i'm no newbie to Macs (since 2002) and this is the first time i've had this much trouble with any Apple-branded app. its the most bizarre thing. i want to believe Apple really tested and restested over and over again because they knew Adobe was eating their lunch with the impending Lightroom3 release, but this seems to not be the case.

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

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