Aperture running at a crawl since lion upgrade

If your whole system is running slow, this probably isn't the forum to which you would want to post. See if anyone else with your configuration is experiencing this on the Lion forum.

Are you anywhere near a Apple Store where you can make a Genius Bar appt.?

It takes time for Lion to run it's Spotlight indexes after installation. That's probably what you saw happening. Glad to hear you're a happy Lion user now.

As 'azdawg99' said Spotlight starts indexing straight away after Lion has been installed, can take a few hours or more depending on the amount of data you have on your drives which will slow your system down. As for Aperture have you ran System Update since upgrading to Lion as there is a update for Aperture (3.1.3) within it, this may improve the performance.

My Aperture is also running very slowly after Lion upgrade (latest Aperture-for-Lion upgrade is installed). Lion update occured on day of release so the Spotlight rebuild (as well as a TimeMachine huge backup) cannot be an issue any more. Moreover, cpu and mem stats do not suggest a system overload (config: early 2008 Macbook Pro, 2.2 GHz Core2 Duo, 4 GB RAM).

Issue is most obvious with large pictures, i.e. 16MP 16bit-TIFF from slide scans. Even simply rotating a pic takes ages, applying presets can take 30-60s. Loss of speed around 2/3.

No other performance issues with Lion though also in my case Aperture is the most challenging application I run.

This is annoying for professional users. I wonder whether Apple wants to kick itself out not only of video editing but also out of foto processing.

I am also having major issues with Aperture (3.1.3) since installing Lion. It is running at a snails pace and I mean a very sloooow snail. Glad to hear I am not alone, so hopefully Apple is aware and can fix.

Same here. It wasn't like lightening with Snow Leopard but now it's almost impossible to get anything done.

Ditto that. Performance of iMac degrades rapidly when Aperture is running in Lion (running later version of Aperture). As well as application grinding to a standstill impacts the complete performance of mac. Couldn't get hot corners to activate mission control, took circa two minutes to get activity monitor up. Appears Aperture is eating up all available memory.

Also noticed other smaller bugs: If restart mac with Aperture in full screen mode, it resumes not in full screen mode. When in full screen mode and flick between desktops the Aperture window appears intermittently in the background.

ShadowfaxRS wrote:

(config: early 2008 Macbook Pro, 2.2 GHz Core2 Duo, 4 GB RAM).

Thank you for letting us know what you're running. It would be nice to know the specs for everyone having this issue. For example, is only people with Core2Duo processors?

I can't imagine why the forums stopped putting this profile info at the bottom of each post.

DLS

I have problems with Aperture since I have upgraded to Snow Leopard. The performance is poor and I have problems now with the library. The preview pictures are not displayed and Aperture tries and tries to create them. I went to the apple shop close to me but they do not have much Aperture skills available. So I did a try and error with the tips from the manual now chance. It sound a little bit similiar, even if you have Lion and not Snow Leopard.

My config is iMac 24-inch, Early 2009, 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB Memory, 640 GB HD.

I have the same ridiculously slow performance with Aperture since the upgrade to Lion. It worked brilliantly a couple of days ago on Snow Leopard, so it has to be the OS upgrade causing the problem.

I'm running Aperture 3.1.3 on a Mid 2010 27-inch iMac, 2.93 GHz Intel Core i7 with 4GB RAM and 2TB Drive

Same here. Since Lion Aperture went from being a rabbit to being a turtle. I've applied all updates, but...no dice.

iMac 2.8ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM.