Aperture 3 works fine for me

Yes, it's working for me on my Mac Pro and Mac Mini, both running Snow Leopard. it takes a second to load, but it's full on working, I kid you not. How? I don't know. It just opens when I open it. I can tell you (via Little Snitch) that it's trying to make two different connections, both over port 80. "HelpViewer" connects to prohelp.apple.com (17.149.160.52) upon Help launch and "helpd" connects to a1300.g.akamai.net (212.247.20.75) when a search term is entered. You may want to check your firewall settings and network connection.

You're welcome for that information. I give that free of charge, because I like to help, even when people are being coarse and impatient.

Help (A3 Build 904A57) works for me on my iMac 24 and on my puny Macbook Air, using Snow Leopard 10.6.2. Build 10C540.

I still cant get iMovie to scan the video clips in the A3 library, but Help comes up no problem.

No, it's not crazy, and you're being totally unreasonable. We're here offering you help and you just seem to want to complain.

I like to help, even when people are being coarse and impatient.

I don't think that is an appropriate tone, do you?

10.6.2 Build 10C540
Aperture: Build 904A57

Just went to the help menu and it worked.

DLS

HA! now that's ironic.

Yours is the first I've seen. Is there a thread for that topic? why don't you help US out by posting a link, or asking nicely, or otherwise not being a jerk.

Fast Jag wrote:

I like to help, even when people are being coarse and impatient.

I don't think that is an appropriate tone, do you?

Sorry: that's an accurate assessment, and you set that tone. Perhaps you should slow that Jag down a little. We're here to help- FREE.

DLS

No, it's not crazy, and you're being totally unreasonable. We're here offering you help and you just seem to want to complain.

Well, I'm sorry, but I do detect a slightly defensive tone here 🙂 As far as I'm concerned, I have encountered genuine bugs with the program, which others have also experienced, and are documented on other threads...

Now, I'm really pleased to hear that some people are finding that the program "works as advertised" - great. But, in the absence of direct and effective support, it would be good to know the reasons for these differences.

Fast Jag wrote:
installed from disc (i.e., not downloaded),

Now we're getting somewhere. Some other problems have been reported by those who used the disk as opposed to the download.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2336697&tstart=0

Maybe YOU can help solve this problem if you're so inclined.

Yours is the first I've seen. Is there a thread for that topic? why don't you help US out by posting a link, or asking nicely, or otherwise not being a jerk.

What a lovely support forum you've got going here.

OK, look, there are many threads out there, some for problems in general and many for specific problems. But you came here on a thread called "Aperture works fine for me", which was started because someone wanted to let the Forum browsers know that there are some people in fact who are not having toruble. See, that might give them hope that it can be fixed. But you come on here seemingly just to shatter that, and are so sure that because you're having a problem, evewryone else must be too. You doubt I can use Help, and then you cop an attitude and demand documentation and details.

Sorry buddy, but if you're just looking for people to bash the software with, then look elsewhere. You're at the end of the line here.

I just wanted to add the following:
I'm a stricly amateur snapper, but have just bought a positively yummy Ricoh GX, so when I saw Aperture 3 had been launched, I read about it on the Apple site, and thought,"Wow - that's the app for me!" So I got the trial version and popped it onto my 2.66/4g 15" MBP, and it runs just great:-) Everything I've tried so far works really quickly and smoothly and that includes the 3 ways to access Aperture Help listed at the bottom of this page :-))) Am I just lucky? What's different about my 10.6.2 to the vs. on the machines owned by folks who don't get help? I don't know! All I can say is, Wow - What an Application!!

WE. We've got a lovely Forum going here. I don't work for Apple. I'm a professional photographer and father of two small babies. You think I'm getting anything out of this? I only know that I've been helped here and so I like helping in return. You seem to have no idea of that concept.

Maybe YOU can help solve this problem if you're so inclined.

I'm not sure that I want to spend any more time on this kind of forum - thank you very much.