Zen and the Art of Migration to AP3
It would appear that Apple seriously underestimated the challenges that AP2 users might have moving to AP3.
After watching the sound and fury a bit, it appears to me that most of the problem is impatience with the massive task of converting old AP2 images to the new AP3 format.
After downloading the trial to a late 2009 Mini with 4 GB of RAM and the 500 GB disk I started to play.
First, I repaired permissions. Don't know if it helps, but it can't hurt.
Then I repaired and rebuilt my AP2 library.
Then I exported some sample projects - RAW, JPEG, and massive TIFFs. (Scanned slides of over 100 MB each)
First thing I found is that one of my projects would not export, not matter how many repairs I made. It always failed right at the end. The others had no problem. At first, AP3 would not import a project; I had to double click the project and then it sucked it right up. Interestingly, this problem went away with time, but only importing from the drop down window. From the "import " arrow/button it would never see projects out on disk.
Processing of each image in AP3 took beween five and ten seconds; sometimes more. Faces took a long time. (But this is hardly surprising.) Trying to do things while AP3 was processing was slow, as you might imagine, but once the 1000 or so images were moved over performance was better than AP2. I might note that I built the trial library on an external RAID O connected by FW800 - coupled with the 5000 rpm disk in the Mini, we are not talking about a blazingly fast disk system.
Found some bugs in printing, (would not remember paper size) but the results were fine and the new print module has more and better options.
Based on all of this (and since I have not yet received my boxed copy), I set out to import my AP2 library (managed) into AP3 - writing from the Mini internal disk to the RAID 0. (The RAID had lots of open space.) The library is about 1.65 GB with around 10,000 images in 275 projects.
Initial copy took just under three hours, with Faces off. Then began the dreading processing. At the five hour mark I have completed 2300 of 10000. I would note that the program seemed to hang for about an hour and a half at the 175 mark. Panic was setting in, but the Activity monitor showed continued disk I/O and CPU and memory usage fluctuations. AP3 took about 49% and the System took about 49% so, as you might imagine, everything else (including Safari to type this) is crawling.
Bottom line, however, is that there have been no crashes, etc. so far. I would thus venture a guess that some of the panic reported may be impatience.
Will try to post again when the import finishes or crashes.
As always - YMMV.
Good luck!
After watching the sound and fury a bit, it appears to me that most of the problem is impatience with the massive task of converting old AP2 images to the new AP3 format.
After downloading the trial to a late 2009 Mini with 4 GB of RAM and the 500 GB disk I started to play.
First, I repaired permissions. Don't know if it helps, but it can't hurt.
Then I repaired and rebuilt my AP2 library.
Then I exported some sample projects - RAW, JPEG, and massive TIFFs. (Scanned slides of over 100 MB each)
First thing I found is that one of my projects would not export, not matter how many repairs I made. It always failed right at the end. The others had no problem. At first, AP3 would not import a project; I had to double click the project and then it sucked it right up. Interestingly, this problem went away with time, but only importing from the drop down window. From the "import " arrow/button it would never see projects out on disk.
Processing of each image in AP3 took beween five and ten seconds; sometimes more. Faces took a long time. (But this is hardly surprising.) Trying to do things while AP3 was processing was slow, as you might imagine, but once the 1000 or so images were moved over performance was better than AP2. I might note that I built the trial library on an external RAID O connected by FW800 - coupled with the 5000 rpm disk in the Mini, we are not talking about a blazingly fast disk system.
Found some bugs in printing, (would not remember paper size) but the results were fine and the new print module has more and better options.
Based on all of this (and since I have not yet received my boxed copy), I set out to import my AP2 library (managed) into AP3 - writing from the Mini internal disk to the RAID 0. (The RAID had lots of open space.) The library is about 1.65 GB with around 10,000 images in 275 projects.
Initial copy took just under three hours, with Faces off. Then began the dreading processing. At the five hour mark I have completed 2300 of 10000. I would note that the program seemed to hang for about an hour and a half at the 175 mark. Panic was setting in, but the Activity monitor showed continued disk I/O and CPU and memory usage fluctuations. AP3 took about 49% and the System took about 49% so, as you might imagine, everything else (including Safari to type this) is crawling.
Bottom line, however, is that there have been no crashes, etc. so far. I would thus venture a guess that some of the panic reported may be impatience.
Will try to post again when the import finishes or crashes.
As always - YMMV.
Good luck!
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