Aperture 3 hangs because it's waiting for time machine to backup.

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Aperture 3 hangs because it's waiting for time machine to backup.

Hi,
I was trying to export around 50 images and aperture3 hung. I clicked on aperture in the menu bar and it said "Application not responding". I waited and waited and then "force quit" aperture. Now when I try to reopen that library, it says "waiting for time machine to finish backing up library". I stopped the backup and I am still getting the same message. I tried to repair library, but to no avail - still the same message....

I must have force quit aperture during a routine time machine backup.

really need that library! please help if you can...

macpro, Mac OS X (10.6.4), aperture 3

Posted on Oct 30, 2010 10:45 AM

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CorkyO2

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Oct 30, 2010 12:43 PM in response to nicmac

Have you tried running the 'Backup Now' command via the Time Machine applet context menu (shown by default in right side of menu bar) with Aperture closed?

It seems to me that the confirmation of backup completion has to come from Time Machine (or OS X) and not from Aperture. 😉

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Oct 30, 2010 1:15 PM in response to nicmac

Personally I do not like backups starting when I am working so I back up manually. At least set Time Machine to do its thing at 4 AM or something like that.

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nicmac Author

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Oct 30, 2010 1:53 PM in response to nicmac

thanks for your replies...

I did what you said and started the backup from the menubar and waited for completion. It still didn't work, I kept getting the same message. Then I then shut everything down including the time capsule and it thankfully works now.

I would like to limit the time machine backup to once a day at 4am, but it seems to automatically do hourly updates. Can I change this setting somewhere?

Thanks!!!

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ludaus

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Nov 17, 2010 1:10 AM in response to nicmac

I had this same problem. After many other attempts I did this elementary thing, which I hadn't thought of before. I restarted my computer and after that I started a repair of my library (Start Aperture while holding down Command+option keys). Now it works fine again. Strange.

I am so used to everything working fine, I didn't even consider the option of restarting the computer. 🙂

/Ludaus

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