Q: Library Will Not Connect to Images on Remote Drive Since Lion

Same for me , never had any problem with my referenced files on a network drive before !

I have about 20'000 pictures on my network drive and problem showed up right after installing LION.

There must be some kind of bug with Aperture 3.1.3 and LION.

Hope Apple will fix it soon.....

Guys, there are other forums in which this problem is being discussed. I have had two months of spinning ball of death - according to other forums, it appears there is a bug in the updates since June. I have gone back in Timemachine to April and Aperture is working fine.

Clearly I am not the only one that feels this way:

http://www.apertureexpert.com/tips/2010/8/3/network-drives-nas-and-aperture.html

Maybe it has been working, but maybe it only took moving to Lion to hit the hard spots!

Ernie

@colin239: Your problem has nothing to do with the one we have here, theres is no crashes, no spinning ball of death, etc... simply the fact that Aperture looses connection to referenced file everytime it is opened.

@Ernie : This article also has nothing to do with our problem here. I've been using Aperture for 2 years now with over 20'000 referenced files on a network drive (Windows home server) without any problem at all.

Hope Apple will issue a fix for us quickly, otherwise I'll have to go back to Snow Leopard ;-(

Has Anyone try to re-install A3 on top of lion to se if app. will rewrite the code causing the breaks?

I know from doing tech support in another life that this can be a fix for things like this.

It has everything to do with the problem, and you have just been lucky in the past, and the problem has arisen before Lion.  See:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/11409238?messageID=11409238#11409238?messa geID=11409238

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2024847?start=0&tstart=0

http://superuser.com/questions/133571/aperture-and-networked-drive-thinks-images -are-offline

http://boardreader.com/thread/Aperture_3_sees_external_drive_different_80lfX1jox j.html

Ernie

Thanks For all the links and input Ernie.   I think you are absolutely correct in this case. I feel I have been lucky up until this point. I hope it's something Apple will fix but judging from the lack of a solutuon in the past, I seriously doubt this will be fixed. 

With LR3 on promo for $120 right now...looks like I may have to jump ship.

That would not be my reaction, but then I use a Managed Aperture Library on a separate dedicated internal hard drive.  Looking forward to one day doing the same on a Thunderbolt drive between Desktop and Laptop, but for now only in my Mac Pro.

Ernie

@ alanfromdupont: I made a clean install of Lion and installed aperture on top of it ;-( Then I encountered the problem. I wonder what would have happened if I had upgraded Snow leopard to Lion ?

@ Ernie: Ok so I guess I must have been lucky in the past, do you think going back to snow leopard will fix the bug?

I think that would be very unpredictable.  The Aperture Library Package is very complicated, and even though the Masters are on another drive, the connection is nonetheless complicated.  I have seen evidence of bad directories for other things on a drive cause some headaches with Aperture.  If Lion (or as some people may have experienced with later versions of SL and/or Aperture) changed a directory somewhere, that change might impact access via SL as well.  I have separate boot volumes for SL and Lion, and will not seriously push Lion without the ability to instantly boot up in Snow Leopard, and my primary Library is never on the boot volume.

You might try copying the files on the Network drive to a properly formated FW External, and copying the Aperture LIbrary to still another, and connecting.  Just a basic file copy might improve things.  A test I would recommend first would be to Launch Aperture to create a New Library, and not try to open the existing.

Ernie

Do you think Apple will come up with a fix?

Do they tell us somewhere that referenced file on a network drive is not supported?

 

Do they tell us somewhere that referenced file on a network drive is not supported?

In the advisory titled to be about Vaults it not only says they don't work for that, but may be saying they are not recommended for Aperture, period -- but that may be an extreme reading:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23750

Combine that with the earlier http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3252 and I would think it inadvisable, at a minimum.

As to whether there would ever be a change in this, I can only observe that for an application that prides itself on protecting the Masters at all cost, it seem illogical to expose them on a Network drive -- might seem that way to the developers.

Ernie

Same problem here. Every time I close Aperture and reopen it loses the links to the master files on my NAS.

I'm running Mac OS X Lion too.