Aperture 3.3.2 unresponsive if library contains old iPhoto albums - solution

Great discovery, Alex,

thanks for posting this.

I have similar problems and tried your fix, but for me the debugger only turns up the name of my previous camera for some reason, no iPhoto albums.

Console.app:

06.08.12 20:04:25,979 Aperture[9051]: [<RKAlbum 0x1171c6bd0> valueForUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key minImageDate.

gdb:

print-object 0x1171c6bd0

<RKAlbum: 0x1171c6bd0 > modelId = 576, uuid = 'KTxJyhwER8yx48TrV824IA' name='FZ 50', displayName='FZ 50'

Any idea, why Aperture might be complaining about my old Lumix FZ 50 r.i.p.?

Cheers

Léonie

You are correct! There it was - a smart album, long forgotten!

Thanks again.

Removing it really stopped the error message, only now I have to find the next album.

Cheers!

Léonie

When I try this:

In the Terminal Application, run the following.

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/gdb /Applications/Aperture.app/

I get this:

No such file or directory

???

I just had an additional idea.

I migrated from iPhoto to Aperture a year ago or more, and haven't used iPhoto since. I just noticed my iPhoto was back on 8.x and now there is 9.3 something.

I'm going to try upgrading iPhoto, and opening the iPhoto library in the latest iPhoto, and see if that improves anything. Probably a shot in the dark, but been meaning to check out iPhoto anyway now that everything is supposedly "unified" maybe my wife will still use iPhoto.

No luck. Upgraded iPhoto to latest. That upgraded my iPhoto library rather quickly. But opening Aperture, still pinwheels and hangs on my primary library.

I have to use Switch to: and open a new, empty library to get Aperture to actually Launch.

Aperture won't even let me select Keep Projects & Albums Arragned by Date!?

You sir are a certifiable genius!

One thing that may help in the debugging process where multiple albums are needed to be erradicated.

While in terminal, after typing "c" to continue:

type

^c (that is hold down the control key and the c key)

then type

detach <PID of Aperture>

then type

quit

That allowed aperture to keep going without having to quit and restart it.

Once Aperture is running, keep repeating the "Keep Projects & Albums arranged by : Date" process and note the object number that appears in the console and then kill that album from within Aperture. Eventually, you'l get them all. You'll know you've got it when console messages stop appearing and when keeping albums arranged by date actually does just that in your library.

For me, the issues were all related to Smart Albums I had created. Made it somewhat easier as they were easy to just delete. I can recreate them later if I need to.

Alex: In the library just repaired using your method, I still have one issue. If I go to add a new vault, the dialog box pops up that says:

"1 managed file will be included in this vault.

16628 referenced files will not be included. These need to be backed up separately.

Vaults provide automated backup of all original files stored inside your Aperture library. Original files for referenced images are stored elsewhere, and are not backed up in vaults.

Adjustments, ratings, and other metadata are included for all images, regardless of file location."

Thing is, all the master files related to this library are (supposed to be) referenced only. I create a Smart Album to catch only Managed Files and it comes up empty.

Any thoughts on how to locate, so I can then relocate, the 1 managed file hiding in the library?

Hi, was hoping to have found the solution as to why Aperture keeps crashing on me when doing basic stuff like clicking on "New Smart Album" but unfortunately I seem to be less lucky.

Console gives me

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSUnknownKeyException', reason: '[<RKAlbum 0x11fdc99e0> valueForUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key minImageDate.'

So it does look very similar to what is described here and I did import iPhoto libraries with albums and smart albums (multiple iPhoto libraries even and some of them twice at that... don't ask 🙂)

Unfortunately gdb gives me

(gdb) print-object 0x11fdc99e0

0x11fdc99e0 does not appear to point to a valid object.

I might be doing something wrong or I might have another issue altogether perhaps... any input is appreciated, thanks!

well -- i am having the same problem, and indeed, I tried to organize by date

but the smart album which shows up in gdb is not visible in iPhoto, but it is a smart album in Aperture.

so I am still stuck.