I recently purchased Aperture and used it to some success early on. I believe after the last OS X update (I can't be positive), it began failing before it started. I'd click on the icon to start, and now I just get a crash report or something that looks like it came out of the Console.
Any ideas?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
What OS did you upgrade from? Search the list for numerous posts with the same problem. Take a look at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3485 if you upgraded from 10.5.8
In addition to Frank's suggestion, I'd also look at the Troubleshooting Basics found here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805
Any helpful messages in the Crash log?
Hey Rodger,
I've had the same problem with the same software.
Here's what I read and tried that did not help in my situation, but maybe it will help on your system:
Here is what made the problem go away temporarily:
turning off AirPort allowed the application to open
however, turning AirPort on AFTER Aperture opened made it crash again within minutes
At last this is what stopped Aperture from crashing upon loading for me:
deleting the Preferences file .com.apple.Aperture.plist file from ~/Library/Preferences
Note, however, that after I did that last step that made MY crashes stop, I now have a smaller but more complicated crahsing issue with Aperture - trying to authenticate via the Facebook plugin is causing Aperture to constantly crash (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3119025). It doesn't impact any other aspect of Aperture - it works totally fine when I don't try to upload any photos to facebook.
Hope this helps,
Aleksey
I found this answer later on, that fixed my problem. All I had to do was "Get Info" on the Aperture application, and check the use in 32-bit mode box.
Now no problems. It would have been nice if there was some notification on this, that it should be done.
Thanks all for the input.
Aperture 3.1.2 will fails on start-up (using 10.6.7)
