Aperture 3 Vault - Updating Vault issue

I experience exactly the same symptoms.

My library is significantly smaller with 25k files and about 50GB size, but still the same problem

I am having the same problem. Over the last three days, I have reinstalled Aperture 3 (purchased version), recreated the Aperture database by starting the program after pressing option and command keys. I am running no other program while trying to create a vault on an external hard drive. I am using Mac Book Pro with 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 8GB of ram, and Snow Leopard 10.6.2.

Every time i try to create a vault it hangs when its a little more than 50% done.

Any tips to resolve this issue would be much appreciated!

I have the same problem. I have had vault creation or vault updates fail numerous times since the upgrade. Last night, while updating the vault, everything essentially came to a stand still -no disk activity. I made the mistake of terminating Aperture. Once I did that, I was no longer able to open my library. A repair of the database made the library 4x the size of the original? Not sure why?

I have never had a problem with vaults in A1.5 or A2, but I have no confidence in vaults on A3. A3 is also painfully slow on my i7. Clearly there is a problem wiht my database. I will start from scratch with some of the import suggestions else where to eliminate any inconsitencies in the database.

This upgrade has been frustrating.

I am having the same problems, Aperture 3.0 crashes while trying to create the new vault. It has been running for "days" and then crashes, the vault is a different size each time it crashes. I have tried rebuilding the database, deleting the vault and starting over.

Vaults is, another, feature that's seriously screwed up in AP3. I've got a 25-30GB library (I use referenced masters).
When I edited some files and update the vault it can easily take up to an hour! The AP3 Vault also contains ALL the thumbnail pics. So my vault is as big as my library... AP2 didn't do that.
It goes pretty quickly to 50%, then a bit slower to 75% and from 75% on it goes really slow.

my vault update keeps crashing, i've done all three database options on startup (permissions, repair and rebuild). Aperture crashes at different points during the vault creation. It also crashed updating my previous vault, in fact it destroyed the previous vault. I've let it run for 30 hours or more and it only gets a very small amount of vault created before it crashes, this is all very very frustrating. looks like LR is getting more appealing 😟

so far this is turning out to be the worst Aperture release yet, this is not the Apple i used to work for, sigh.

glenn

I have a similar issue here.
Updating vault takes 10 times longer than it used to take in Aperture 2.
20 minutes for 140GB library.
In activity monitor Aperture not responding for half the time.
Hope this gets fixed soon

Peter

I ran into the same problem here in Switzerland, I also called tech support and they are aware of the problem, however no solution for the problem has been found as of yet.

But I did ask the hard question - should I have a catastrophic shut down with the main library, can I reboot the library from a vault that stops/ed at 50% even if the mb's are the same on both drives.

Tech was not sure, but he did say to make a copy of the main library on to another drive.

As we all know that this would not be a long term solution, at least for me it takes about 12 hours to make a copy of my drive.

Another tech guy told me to export mini libraries of each job, until they find a batch. This could be a band aid for the time being.

I must say that if this was Aperture 1.0 we could understand such " bugs " but were now on A3, so this sloppy on Apple's side.

But hopefully they move fast with a patch...

You guys aren't backing up these vaults to an external Western Digital hard drive are you? If so, the problem could be that the drives are formatted in fat-32. Aperture 3 doesn't support fat-32 drives. Aperture 2 didn't support them either but was, apparently, more tolerant about them. Aperture 3 flat out doesn't work with them.

Any external drives used with Aperture 3 MUST be formatted in Mac extended format.

FWIW, I updated the vault on my Mac Pro for the first time (since installing Aperture 3) this morning. It completed without issues and took the normal amount of time for a brand new vault creation.

BTW, I choose to leave my master images in their current location and reference them instead of copying them to my Aperture Library. I believe a vault update of an Aperture Library that is managed (all masters copied to the library) instead of referenced (left in their original location) will take longer and make for a much larger vault backup.

Mark

Hey mark,

I personal formatted my drives to OS Extended, and on two USB 2 drives it did the same thing = Stopped at 50%

I am going to buy a FireWire 800 drive in any matter, I'm hoping it could be a solution. But my logic tells me there is not much difference between the two concerning making a vault.

Cheers

If ever its not worth trying to back up a vault in 32 bit compared to 64 bit, I thought maybe this could have something to do with the vault sopping at 50%.

No difference.

Even though its sopping at 50%, the big question will it work to reboot a library ?