Automator action 'Choose Project/Album' do NOT work

Thanks for your follow-up Leonie 🙂

SL 10.6.8 ;

Aperture 3.2.3

Automator 2.1.1,

I'm on a MacPro 3,33Ghz 12G ram, so plenty of speed/memory.

The action ''Get Specific Aperture Items' with Name = "voeux" return in 3 seconds !!!

Aperure files on local disk.

Did this morning a 'Repair Permission', run in 28 seconds. Did not solved the issue.

Did this morning a 'Repair Database', run in 4 min 20 seconds. Did not solved the issue. (I did let the Aotomator Action last 10 minutes !!!)

Did this morning a 'Rebuild Database', run in 62 seconds. Did not solved the issue neither.

Note : I did never experienced any Aperture database problems for now. (cross your fingers).

On launching action 'Choose Project'

I did wait more than 4 minutes (still spinning)

It may crash Automator in some cases (deleting the action while still spinning)

Process: Automator [1866]

Path: /Applications/Automator.app/Contents/MacOS/Automator

Identifier: com.apple.Automator

Version: 2.1.1 (247.1)

Build Info: Automator-2470100~2

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [292]

Date/Time: 2012-05-07 09:50:37.836 +0200

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)

Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 41661 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 12

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 16406 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Anonymous UUID: 13289615-A30A-4C2D-9F4A-75278A1C453C

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000057

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Application Specific Information:

objc[1866]: garbage collection is ON

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff84a4498a FindItem(OpaqueCollection*, unsigned int, int, unsigned long*) + 18

1 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff84a5e56a FindFirst(OpaqueCollection*, unsigned int, unsigned long*) + 42

2 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff84a5e6cd GetTaggedCollectionItem + 52

3 com.apple.HIServices 0x00007fff830d9d46 GetIndexedReceiveHandler + 28

It's buggy, Point.

Guess there is an Aperture's API mismatch with the two action scripts modules loaded by Automator.

/Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Library/Automator/Choose Albums.action/Contents/Resources/Scripts/

./main.scpt

./actionViewController.scpt

William

Hey, I didn't find any

automator v2.2.2

Are you on Lion ?

I've another Mac : MacBook Air which runs Lion 10.7

Same Aperture 3.2.3

Automator 2.2.2

And guess what ??

Both Automator actions 'Choose Projects/Albums' are working (quite fast on a very little database).😁

😟 Pity is that my main computer runs SL 10.6, and not ready to go with L 10.7

Let's hope Apple Inc. will still fix this issue ....

Thanks for the clue,

Best regards

William

I find out 😁 that with another account on the same computer, and thus with a different Aperture Data-image database, I could get Projetcs or Albums lists through the Automator functions.

So now I'm investigating why on one particular database - even having it fully rebuild - I could not get that list ...

I noticed that in the particular Aperture database, there were a bunch of 'referenced images' that where broken. (actual file of images was not at the right place anymore or deleted).

So I did delete those "black" looking 'referenced images' in Aperture.

And now the clue : 😎 There where some 'Projects' -possiblily some Albums- which contained solely those lost

'referenced images'. They too looked black and where noted with a '0' as for indicating the number of images

After deleteing those empty Projects, I finaly could have Automator showing me the list on 'Choose Albums' or 'Chose Projects'.

=> This issue should be considered as a buggy behavior on some extra conditions in Aperture's.😠

The best , William

Sorry,

Seems that is its not stable.

When I took my very first Automator script, it did not worked out.

New test after closing the apps (Automator, Aperture) do not succeed, even by recreating the script from scratch with only one entry "Choode Album".

Now when I click on the 'Cancel' button, I get :

So ... I still need a little help from Apple's support ...

Maybe I have to be a bit patient ...

Seems 'Choose Album' is very very slow : almost 10 minutes !! before having the lists... (on my MacPro 2009 3,3Ghz 12Gb Ram)

Have 268 projects, and 412 (counted through an Automator script 🙂)

412 Albums