Aperture Not Opening

unfortunately this did not work for me :-(

any suggestions ?

Aperture 3.4: May quit unexpectedly on launch after updating

What is your current status.

running 10.8.2, MBP15', relatively large iPhoto library of 500GB on a 1TB hdd

What version of Aperture?

latest version of aperture (3.4) and iphoto (9.4)

Are you trying to open an Aperture or iphoto database?

opening an aperture library is ok but opening the iPhoto library does no longer work after update

Did you migrate from iphoto?

did not migrate but with Aperture 3.3. I started using the same library with both iPhoto and Aperture

How long ago?

Did you do any recent software or firmare updates?

yes, recent updates of system to 10.8.2 and of iPhoto and Aperture

does this give any clue?

William Lloyd wrote:

Aperture 3.4: May quit unexpectedly on launch after updatind

does not seem to be my case since I can open an Aperture library without problem and without Aperture quitting; it just gets stuck with the "opening iphoto library" small window when trying to open the it; let it run over night but no progress at all; Aperture does not even give any error message, I can just quit it without having to force quit it; all seems fine except it cannot open the iPhoto library any more after the update

Now I am confused: in your first post you said:

Quit iPhoto then right clicked and reopened iPhoto library with Aperture which finallty opened Aperture again.

Does that mean, after opening in iPhoto the iPhoto library works with Aperture or do you mean, Aperture could open the Library but it hangs?

If Aperture hangs, I'd try to rebuild the iPhoto Library using iPhotos First Aid Tools:

hold down ⌥⌘ and double-click iPhoto then select "repair Database" from the First Aid panel. Also do a "Rebuild database" if necessary.

Aperture may hang for a completely different reason. There is recently a bug, that makes Aperture hang when viewing an iPhoto Library, if this library contains smart albums and is sorted by date.

Does your iPhoto Library contain smart albums, that have been created in iPhoto? You might consider to delete these and replace them by albums created in Aperture.

Regards

Léonie

leonieDF wrote:

Now I am confused: in your first post you said:

Quit iPhoto then right clicked and reopened iPhoto library with Aperture which finallty opened Aperture again.

Does that mean, after opening in iPhoto the iPhoto library works with Aperture or do you mean, Aperture could open the Library but it hangs?

If Aperture hangs, I'd try to rebuild the iPhoto Library using iPhotos First Aid Tools:

hold down ⌥⌘ and double-click iPhoto then select "repair Database" from the First Aid panel. Also do a "Rebuild database" if necessary.

Aperture may hang for a completely different reason. There is recently a bug, that makes Aperture hang when viewing an iPhoto Library, if this library contains smart albums and is sorted by date.

Does your iPhoto Library contain smart albums, that have been created in iPhoto? You might consider to delete these and replace them by albums created in Aperture.

Regards

Léonie

"Does that mean, after opening in iPhoto the iPhoto library works with Aperture or do you mean, Aperture could open the Library but it hangs?"

Yes, correct: iPhoto opens the iPhoto library without any problems, Aperture does not

I will see about your trick with the smart albums and sorting (though I have a lot of them and yes, most of them are sorted by date) - I can just try to sort them differently and this should work? will try

update: I have tried your proposed solution with the smart folders.

I have about 50 smart folders.

deleted about 10 and the other 40, I (temporarily) sorted them not by data but by title

closed iPhoto

tried to open the iPhoto library with Aperture - still the exactly same problem

any other suggestions?

It is not the sorting inside the album that may cause the problem, but the sorting in the Library Inspector: If you sort the projects and the albums in the "Library section" of Aperture's Inspector panel by date. Sorry to have been not clear about that.

If there are smart albums that are causing the hang, you should see error messages in the Console window like this:

8/6/12 6:22:32.589 PM Aperture: [<RKAlbum 0x1240e7a20> valueForUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key minImageDate.

See this post by Alex Brown for more detail:

Aperture 3.3.2 unresponsive if library contains old iPhoto albums - solution

If this does not apply, try the library repair options.

Regards

Léonie

I also sorted the library section of Iphoto by title and not by date - I can't do the same for Aperture since as reported, I just would not go that far but it hands when opening the iPhoto library.

Should I try the Aperture library repair options at startup to repair the iPhoto library even though it works perfectly under iPhoto? Wouldn't this risk making damage to a perfectly working iPhoto library? I am a bit worried of playing around with 500GB of data ...

Should I try the Aperture library repair options at startup to repair the iPhoto library even though it works perfectly under iPhoto? Wouldn't this risk making damage to a perfectly working iPhoto library? I am a bit worried of playing around with 500GB of data ...

I meant - use the Library repair in iPhoto; that should be a routine repair in iPhoto and keep it working in iPhoto.

And you do have a backup of your Library, do you?

will try it - I do have a TM backup of course but it would still be a paid to restore 0.5TB of data ...

the only thing that worked solving the issue was re-installing aperture from scratch ... all fine now. Quite disappointed that there can still be some so stupid mistakes in programme updates by a company like apple

the only thing that worked solving the issue was re-installing aperture from scratch ... all fine now.

That is what William Lloyd suggested in his first post. I assumed you had tried the reinstall all along 😀