aToast
Level 1
(75 points)
Q: Aperture 3.3 update & now all I get is the spinning beach ball
Aperture worked fine all this time...until I updated to 3.3
Now after Aperture is launched, without me having to do ANYTHING in Aperturit goes to the spinning beach ball and says "Processing" at the bottom of the window.
And I can't do anything except Force Quit.
In the course of Troubleshooting, I've done the following...
Held down the OPTION and COMMAND keys while launching Aperture in order to:
Repair Permissions
Repair Database
Rebuild Database
Restarted the iMac (multiple times)
Used Disk Utility to Repair Disk Permissions
Anybody have insights into how to get Aperture 3.3 to work?
Thanks.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
aToast
Level 1
(75 points)
OK, so I didn't have time to call AppleCare and decided not to after all.
I solved it by:
- using Time Machine to restore my Aperture Library from the time before I upgraded Aperture
- right-clicked on the now-restored Aperture Library and launched it using iPhoto
- iPhoto ran through Processing and Upgrades and reported it couldn't find a movie file, etc.
- I couldn't find the movie file iPhoto was referring to but did all I could to 'clean up' the files in iPhoto
- I then quit iPhoto and launched the Aperture Library using Aperture...
...and it worked.
There was still a little cleaning up to do (I did use Preferences in both iPhoto and Aperture to delete the connection to my MobileMe Galleries/iCloud account).
Then relaunched Aperture again to make sure it's still working, clicked on random photos to make sure I wasn't just seeing thumbnails.
Everything seems to be there and okay.
Good luck everyone!!!
C'mon Apple!
