Cropping Crashes Aperture 3 due to Video Card Memory Leak?

Sorry but I cannot answer the card vs. memory question. Many apps (e.g. browsers) do leak memory but I have not identified the Aperture app as leaking memory so much as liking memory. 🙂

Aperture is a heavy pro graphics app that is very demanding of hardware. Your Mac's CPU, GPU, i/o and/or RAM all are probably limiting to Aperture so we need to do what we can to optimize.

Some generic advice I posted in another thread is listed below. In your case I would pay special attention to RAM optimizing: restarts and running Aperture by itself in the short term, adding RAM in the longer term.

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• Set Previews to only be built manually, and only tell Aperture to build Previews when you are not otherwise editing in Aperture.

• Keep the internal drive underfilled for speed, which sooner or later usually requires using a Referenced-Masters-Library with Masters on external drives. Back up originals before importing into Aperture or any other images app.

• The Aperture Library should be on an internal drive.

• Turn off Share Previews with iLife and iWork.

• Remember that HDs slow as they fill and keep the internal drive underfilled. Approx. 70% full maximum is a good guideline.

• If page outs increase significantly during operation try to run Aperture by itself. On my C2D MBP with its max of 3 GB RAM I always did a restart prior to a heavy Aperture session to clear any memory leaks and make sure no other apps were open. Browsers in particular will often suck RAM Aperture would otherwise be using.

IMO all Aperture users who can should routinely bump RAM to at least 8 GB.

Activity Monitor's RAM reporting can be misleading. On Activity monitor check Page Outs before and after a work session. If the number of Page Outs increases significantly, you would benefit from more RAM.

HTH

-Allen

Did you try re-installing Aperture or did you copy the app from your old computer? Everything up to date, etc.?

Lets see if we understand this correctly.

You had a system on which Aperture was crashing when you used the crop tool. You then got a brand new system and the crop tool still causes Aperture to crash. Am I correct so far?

What are the common factors between the old and new systems as far as Aperture goes? Not knowing how you migrated from the old to the new the only thing we can say for certain is that the library is identical.

So have you run the basic library first aid steps? Another thing to try is to create a new empty library, put an image into it and try cropping it and see what happens.

Let us know what happens after those steps,

regards

I'm having the same problem. Aperture 3.1.2

I just imported about 800 raw pictures for the first time in a few months. I'm going through the whole lot of them one by one and I can only crop about 5-10 pictures before I get the beachball of death. Then I have to force quit.