Well, I've completed the migration of my A2 library over to A3, but it still needed to do some processing. I left it overnight and awoke to find a "Warning: Your startup disk is almost full" message, Aperture 3 paused, and everything else paged out of main memory.
Put me down for this propblem too! I have turned faces off, but when I open Aperture I get the processing message (presumably thumbnails) and then everything goes to ****. The activity monitor is off the scale, 2.5 gig.
I have seen where people say to open it in 32 bit mode, but when I get information on the app the Open in 32 bit mode check box is not there.
I don't believe I can consider using this garbage until Apple releases an upgrade 😟
Hi, I installed the patch on my two machines when it came out. I am able to create and run slide shows. A3 has been running flawlessly since after the long and painful installation process. I did not run a slide show prior to installing the patch.
It gets worse. After trying to delete some of the faces that I really didn't want (they were marked unnamed and I clicked the x on the border surrounding the face on about 200 photos), a number of my faces got "lost" and didn't show up at all on the faces screen.
Only fix was to restore a previous version of the library from Time Machine.
Same here. I have been using Aperture 2 since mid 08 without any problems. Purchased the Aperture 3 upgrade yesterday, installed it last night, chose the import option of the Ap 2 library.....(big mistake now I see), let it run....waited ages, went to bed with it saying 95% complete and 500 odd items left. (I have a library of about 8500 images...mostly shot in raw admittedly so quite large files). When I got up this morning, it had not progressed any further and had the message about no start up disk space left. I looked at the HD icon and it said 0kb spare! I know I had at least 30 or 40 Gb free when I started the install. Further....my external drive, which I use for my Time Machine back up had used up a few hundred GBs of space overnight!!!
I then spent nearly an hour and a half on the phone to an Apple Care guy in Texas. (I'm in Brisbane, Australia and the couldn't help me here when I rang). He put me through everything suggested here in these forums, but nothing would work. Didn't even have the option to run 32 bit. He told me they had been excessively busy taking calls from people about the sam prob and Apple is working on a fix for it. The best he could suggest was for me to create a new library just called Aperture 3 for eg, and any new pics I take, import directly into that and it should work okay. He advised I don't touch the imported library until the fix comes through due to the memory problem it's causing.
Not happy...been looking forward to this upgrade. Even left my purchase and install to now so I could get familiar with it while on a weeks holiday...... Now have an an appt with Genius Bar to get some more help until fix comes through. I want to uninstall it and leave it until it's stable. Can't get an appt for a few days though. Fun, fun fun.
I had the same problem as everybody else here, but I made a copy of my library of 52.000 pics before I tried to convert it. When it failed, I had to make a hard restart of my Mac. Then I turned faces off, and recreated my library from my Vault without problems at all. But I still experience that Aperture crashes. This always happens when I use the new brushes.
One tip I discovered: it helps to turn off (uncjheck) all other adjustment tools when using either retouch or brushes. Otherwise every little edit causes the programme to recalculate the whole image, which eats up your memory heejus. I've done this successfully in Aperture 2 and 3. Now what I CAN'T do is use my Library...
From reading the thread I did the following to get running:
1) Restart in Safe Mode (hold down Shift at start-up),
2) select Aperture, choose Get Info, and select 32-bit mode, and
3) start Aperture ... but turn off Faces until library is processed.
Can't say she's running like greased lightning but at least she's not locking up.
Yesterday I downloaded the trial version and imported about 2000 photos, that I used to manage in LR2. I had no issues importing them nor did I run out of disk space. I did have some quirkiness with setting up the Flickr option where it never responded after I authorized Aperture on the my Flickr account. The Flickr icon when clicked did nothing. I ended up removing the keychain access for it and restarted Aperture. Once back in I reran the Flickr option again and it worked. Other than that the only other issue I see is the huge amount of memory it uses in a short amount of time. When I first launch it uses 600MB of memory and within 5 minutes it is using 1.75GB of my 2GB total. When Aperture was creating previews it was using about 75% of my CPU but never crashed or gobbled up my HDD. It took about 2 hours to complete. So I can relate to everybody's memory issue but so far that's been my only issue.
I had the "exact" same scenario happen on my MacBook Pro (3GB memory and 500Gig disk). I also loaded Aperture 3 onto my MacPro (14GB memory and 2TB of disk) where the library conversion completed smoothly and Aperture 3 did NOT come up with the "processing" message that went on for ever more. The machine is grabbing more and more memory over time but Aperture 3 does continue running on the big machine.
Aperture 3 on my MacPro, however, will not stop with the error message "processing" and after less than a minute all but freezes.
One more note Ryan, amongst other things I use Aperture for my slide shows and Aperture is a dream in terms of the visual and audio effects one can create with Aperture 3. I also like its image enhance feature ( very quick and does a decent job with most images.
I hope Apple hurries up and fixes the "processing" issue which renders the program useless and NON FUNCTIONAL fast for my notebook as I need to go to Europe and use Aperture to present some slide shows with is.
@Kickpackpunk: Have you tried actually using Aperture 3 and its various features yet? When you apply various adjustments to RAW files what kind of response does the program have? Specifically, is it smooth with retouch, straighten, skin smoothing (with brushes)? Once these adjustments are applied, how does exporting a JPG go? I think a lot of people that are reporting "limited issues" with Aperture 3 haven't really started using the program yet. They are able to get their libraries up and running with relatively no problems, but that is a different story from actually having a fully functional program that performs well. If you can elaborate a bit more on your actual day-to-day use, I would be interested to hear.
I took the advice somebody posted here after running into the same problems trying to directly upgrade from an AP2 library.
My experiences so far:
Made a complete backup of my system and 2000 RAW image/30 GB AP2 library, then uninstalled AP2 (including plugins).
Booted from my backup and used AP2 to save a vault of my library.
Booted back to my primary system and installed AP3, created a new empty library, and turned off auto preview generation/faces/places.
Imported the AP2 vault into the new AP3 library, with AP3 maxing out physical ram and the swapfile bloating to nearly fill my boot drive, but it finally got through it.
Now it's "processing" the imported files, but keeps hanging after doing a little more than 100 images.
I had been able to kickstart it again by quitting (or force-quitting through occasional freezes) and repairing/rebuilding the library with an occasional full restart of the machine, but it seems to be stuck on one particular file now, with about 800 more to go.
I haven't really had a problem using Aperture 3 on the same or similar system as you. It does crash out, and I have to start it. And there are more bugs than one should find in released software such as projects with hundreds of images that when clicked on do not display the images in the project. How did that get past Q&A? But I do use it for several hours a day, and it's a huge improvement in speed and usability over the past version. It's useable for me, but I do expect an update soon to address this memory leak.
I think what you are seeing are bugs and some people who seem to have possible corrupted images etc. My library of 75k images converted without a problem thankfully other than it took a day. So, how many library's converted without incident which you're not hearing about ?
In any case, there are problems, but I've used it all day today, creating projects, importing photos, organizing abd tagging photos, and applying adjustments in both Aperture and photoshop and not even a crash so far today.
Switching to 32-bit mode seems to have helped: got everything "processed" without the memory leak acting up again, and now I've started updating the masters.
I do have frequent crash with the trial version. I sent report to Apple every time it happened. I have about 100 images in my library, I cannot process more than 4-5 images without a crash. No matter 32 or 64 bits mode. It would be nice to hear from Apple about their plan, or at least opinion. I was really keen to buy but I will stick to Adobe Bridge / CNX2 combo. It works really well compare to Aperture!
