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Aperture doesn't retain presets after relaunch

All the presets I add to Aperture disapper after I close the app and launch it again, such as Metadata Views, new Adjustment presets, import/export presets, folder naming etc. It's not designed this way, right?


I tried dragging Aperture to Trash and reinstall again, same thing.


I checked online, the preset files are supposed to be saved into /Library/Application support/Aperture/ but it's all empty on my machine.


What else can I try?

Posted on Jun 1, 2012 1:20 PM

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Jun 1, 2012 1:53 PM in response to MacKyver

All the presets I add to Aperture disapper after I close the app and launch it again,

How do you "close the app"? With a "Quit" or with a "Force Quit"?


This looks like you have a permission problem and Aperture is not able to save the changes. Do at least the images persist, that you import?

You are not by any chance working from a guest account without priveleges, are you?


What is your Aperture version and MacOS X version?


I checked online, the preset files are supposed to be saved into /Library/Application support/Aperture/ but it's all empty on my machine.

The presets you set are suppose to be in your Home folder/Library/Application support/Aperture/


Is this empty as well?



Regards

Léonie

Jun 1, 2012 3:20 PM in response to léonie

Hey there, thanks for the troubleshooting.


1. Yes by "closing the app" I mean "Exiting" completely and even rebooting before relaunching the app again, same problems.


2. I have also launched "Disk Utility" to do a permission repair, same issues persist.


3. Aperture has been updated to latest 3.2.4. OSX is 10.7.4


4. Yes, the folder where the presets are supposed to be are all empty no matter how many times I save different presets, none of them is saved!!! urghh... 😢

Jun 1, 2012 6:38 PM in response to MacKyver

Can you save presets, when you lauch Aperture from a different account? Do you have a second user account on your mac? If not, create one from the "Users & Groups" System Preference.


If you can save presets and preferences from a different account, I'd suggest to repair the permissions on your system volume. using Disk Utility.

Jun 1, 2012 10:04 PM in response to MacKyver

Have you actually looked at the permissions in your User Library?


You should be the owner of all your library files and have read/write priveleges for the files, and execute for the folders.


Listing the "Applications Support" folder in the Terminal with the following command should show something similar to this:


% ls -l ~/Library/Application\ Support

total 368

drwx------ 13 dreschle staff 442 Jun 2 04:07 AddressBook

drwxr-xr-x 27 dreschle staff 918 Nov 29 2011 Adobe

drwxr-xr-x 18 dreschle admin 612 Jun 1 07:47 Aperture

drwxr-xr-x 3 dreschle staff 102 May 21 2008 Aquamacs Emacs

drwxr-xr-x 3 dreschle staff 102 Jul 23 2009 ArcSoft

drwxr-xr-x 3 dreschle staff 102 May 6 2009 ArtRage 2

drwxr-xr-x 9 dreschle staff 306 Dec 30 17:45 Audio Hijack Pro

drwxr-xr-x 5 dreschle staff 170 May 9 00:47 Automator

drwxr-xr-x 9 dreschle staff 306 Feb 7 20:36 Backup

drwxr-xr-x 4 dreschle admin 136 Nov 13 2010 Bento

drwxr-xr-x 15 dreschle staff 510 Jan 22 10:41 BibDesk

....

the codes "xrwx" show that the item is a library (d) and the owner (columns 2,3,4) has write, read, and execute priveleges.


and listing the contents of the Application support folder:


% ls -l ~/Library/Application\ Support/Aperture

total 672

-rw-r--r-- 1 dreschle admin 165656 Feb 5 09:43 Adjustment Chain Presets.plist

drwxr-xr-x 13 dreschle admin 442 Mar 27 01:23 Adjustment Preset Brushing

-rw-r--r-- 1 dreschle admin 1111 Apr 6 16:10 AdjustmentPresets.plist

drwxr-xr-x 4 dreschle admin 136 May 26 10:04 Command Sets

-rw-r--r-- 1 dreschle admin 46072 May 5 16:00 Export Presets.plist

-rw-r--r-- 1 dreschle admin 2629 May 30 18:42 FileFolderPresets.plist

-rw-r--r-- 1 dreschle admin 4021 May 30 18:42 FileNamingPresets.plist

-rw-r--r-- 1 dreschle admin 1008 May 30 16:10 Import Presets.plist

-rw-r--r-- 1 dreschle admin 8218 Apr 9 06:49 Metadata Presets.plist

-rw-r--r-- 1 dreschle admin 28855 Jun 1 07:47 MetadataSets.plist

drwxr-xr-x 4 dreschle staff 136 Apr 28 13:59 Plug-Ins

-rw-r--r-- 1 dreschle admin 15020 Apr 29 19:17 PrintPresets.plist

-rw-r--r-- 1 dreschle admin 1107 Apr 6 16:10 Raw Decode Presets.plist

-rw-r--r-- 1 dreschle admin 24687 May 30 18:31 Slideshow Presets.plist

drwxr-xr-x 9 dreschle admin 306 Apr 15 23:27 WatermarkImages

-rw-r--r-- 1 dreschle admin 14453 Apr 13 19:43 Web Export Presets.plist


What are the priveleges in your user library? You are saying that the Aperture seting don't exist, but do the other folders on the path to ~/Library/Application\ Support/Aperture exist, and what are the protection codes (drwx) for the folders along the access path?

Jun 4, 2012 10:27 PM in response to léonie

thanks for the terminal commands, yes, I think this is the "root" cause of the problem, unlike the "admin" permission on your Aperture folder, I only get "staff" status on the Aperture folder in ~/Library/Application Support, as shown here:


drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root staff 102 17 Jul 2010 Aperture


I went into "Get Info" and added "admin" with Privilege of "Read & Write" to the custom access under "Sharing & Permissions" and now it works!


User uploaded file


Why did Aperture do this to me to begin with? 🙂

Aperture doesn't retain presets after relaunch

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