Endles "Updating Aperture Videos Event"... can't use iMovie now..

Awesome work!
Thanks a lot!

This solution worked for me as well. Thank you for the help.

Works for me too, just making my first trailer now! Thank you 🙂

Thanks !!! You don't need to delete the folder, only this Timestamp file inside.

You guys are great. I deleted the iLifeShared folder and now I'm up and running.

Same problem here.
I have three different Aperture libraries.
The two ones (17GB and 2GB) created with A3 work fine, the one created and upgraded from A2 (29GB) causes the endless spinning.

I have no videos in any library.

I'll try the proposed fix and update the post with the results


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UPDATE :

Sorry to be the bad guy, it didn't work here.
Did as proposed, killing the iLifeshared folder - launched iMovie.
The folder is nicely recreated, but iMovie keeps on spinning.

SECOND UPDATE :
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Weird. I tried it a second time. And then a third time.
Now it works.

I think that the two first times, I had relaunched A3 before iMovie.
The last time, I only killed the folder and launched iMovie immediately. And that worked.

I cant find the ilifeshared folder in the contents folder. I trashed the imovie-thumbnails folder, but no go. I get to see the events, but as soon as I hover over any material, it freezes up.

There's something really weird in this.

I don't even have the "iMovie thumbs", and now that its' working (after trashing the iLifeShared fodler, this folder is no longer re-created...

Has Aperture so drastically changed the file structure during the increase from v1 to v3 ?

oops after few days use and re make one project and share on iTune. Now can't use iMovie again.....

danylavoie wrote:
SOLUTION FOR ME.

MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR APERTURE DATABASE BEFORE !

1. right-click on your aperture library. Open the package to view files.
2. I deleted iMovie-Thumbnails and iLifeShared
3. I started Imovie and it is now working normally.

A little lost at Number 1. Open the package to view files.
Viewing files, Are we at iMovie folder in the Finder of Aperture Library?
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And at 2. deleted iMovie-Thumbnails and iLifeShared
Does iMovie remake thumbs if sent to trash? /when app is opened?
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One more,
making backup of database, what's the best way to do this?

Mainly gun-shy making changes, when prior changes done in the past
by seat of pants wasn't alway's the best process.

I noticed further in the thread, others had luck with removing just iLifeShared.

Thanks

Thank you!

Only deleted iLifeshared and it worked!!

/Svante

What a terrible bug.

I too had to delete the ApertureD...timestamp file. Once I'd done so, iMovie recreated my thumbnails and finished doing its thing.

The annoying this is, is that I have exactly the same movies in Aperture as I do iPhoto, and I'd rather it didn't grab things from Aperture at all, only I don't know how to stop it doing this...

oops after few days use and re make one project and share on iTune. Now can't use iMovie again.....

I don't want to be messing around with the files and deleting stuff I might end up making worse. I need Apple to fix this soon. I got work to do and this kills me. Next time I'll wait a month before buying anything from Apple. It seems they don't test their products with normal people. Just engineers that don't fully use the products like we do.

Same thing happened with Antennagate. Why not let normal people test the stupid phone without a cover.

Anyways, I'm going to Apple/feedback to bark over there. hehe