Q: Aperture 3 Running Slow & Hanging All The Time

I have been running Aperture 3.3.2 for a few months now and every single time I open the application, it hangs for a little bit then runs fine.

The big problem is that when I quit Aperture, after updating the library, it starts to freeze up and then hang (beachball). It will then take forever to quit or sometimes not at all and thus I have to force quit it in order to shut down my MBP.

I am only running Mail, iTunes, Safari at the moment when I open Aperture.

Is this a problem with anyone else's? Also, if there is any solution, that would be appreciated.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, 17" 2.3 GHz i7, 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Posted on Aug 11, 2012 4:28 AM

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Kirby Krieger Aug 11, 2012 4:34 AM in response to antontwang
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Aug 11, 2012 4:34 AM in response to antontwang

At the least, repair your Library, following the instructions on the Apple Aperture trouble-shooting page.

At the most, go through all of the steps.

Also confirm that your machine is healthy, your OS up-to-date, Aperture is up-to-date, that your system drive has at least 15% free space, and that you aren't running any odd system-level utilities.

You should (imho) repair your Library any time you have force-quit Aperture.
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antontwang Aug 11, 2012 5:29 AM in response to Kirby Krieger
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Aug 11, 2012 5:29 AM in response to Kirby Krieger

Thank you for the suggestion.

I have tried the steps and it seems that when I quit Aperture, now, it is much quicker and does not hang as much now.

Will have to see in the long run if anything of this sort happens again. Thank you once again.
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