Aperture 3.4 will not open.

JUST deleting the plist seems to have worked fine for me, over several hours and restarts. So far. What causes the issue to reappear?

That will depend on the reason for the crash:

For example, for some posters the reason for the crash is a missing or outdated framework in the library, that is needed, when uploading to Facebook. Removing the preferences removes the Facebook account from Aperture's web preferences and stops Aperture trying to connect to Facebook. As soon as you add the account again, Aperture will crash again.

My big library has showed up in Aperture 27,0000+ photos with Faces, Places intact. Phew...

I had the same problem and phoned apple care too. I also had to delete the Photomatix Plugin. To do that read here:

http://www.hdrsoft.com/support/faq_applugin.html

I deleted the plist plugin as described above and opened a small Aperture Library sucesscfully, then deleted the Photomatix plugin. Then reopend my big library an after that i could repair my old database and Aperture opened normally. Also look at these supprt messages:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805?viewlocale=de_DE

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4391?viewlocale=en_US

Good luck.

Tim,

Thanks for your clear details. I was a MobileMe and Aperture user. I seem to be working with just removing the plist. Did not remove the lockfile and a bit scared of fooling around any more.

I was a MobileMe and Aperture user, too. I followed the suggestion to just trash Aperture 3.4, then reinstall an older version…working fine now. See <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4318372>.

Ivor

Thank you very much, you made my day ! Your fix worked flawlessly for me........🙂

I never used MobileMe, but the bug still hit me. I firmly believe this is a Facebook issue. Since deleting the plist-file worked for me. Further tested this by editing the plist file as suggested by thom_ekAperture will open fine with the edited plist.

BTW you may need to convert your plist for editing by using a terminal command:

plutil -convert xml1 [Drag in your plist here and hit enter]

Although I did disable Facebook in system preferences before deleting the plist file, re-enabling it did not cause any problems. So my belief is that the issue is in the plist-file.

Folks,

Got a way to fix this from Apple Support. I had posted the problem to feedback. Received an e-mail from David.

Here are the steps David recommended to me. They seem, to have worked.

Delete Aperture App

Download trial version from here Aperture 3.1 Trial

Install

Download 3.4 update from here http://support.apple.com/downloads/#aperture

Install

When I opened Aperture, it repaired the library. Seems to be okay now.

Did you lose your preferences when you did this?

Does the facebook integration still work?

I'm hesitating doing any workarounds because I don't want to lose settings. I'm hoping Apple will release a fix soon since they know about this issue.

Proggie,

No. Only issue so far, I tired to upload 20+ photos to Facebook and Aperture crashed. I then restart Aperture and the uploads have been fine. so there may still be a Facebook issue there.

Folks,

Still having periodic crashes when uploading to Facebook. Out of about 12 tries, 2 crashes.

Aperture is working fine for me after removing the com.apple.Aperture.plist from my user/Library/Preferences/ I posted earlier, but when trying to use Facebook, it continues to crash.

Now I am wondering, no matter what fix you used, for those who use Facebook via Aperture 3.4, is there anyone that is able to use it without crashing a single time? If yes, please explain, what you did to resolve the issue.

I bought Aperture 3 on a DVD (not on the App Store), but don't have it with me right now, as I am on a business trip overseas. I do have my serial on file. (I will have access to my DVD in a week from now again, but am hoping to fix this problem quicker).

I bought Aperture 3 on a DVD (not on the App Store), but don't have it with me right now,

You do not need your DVD, to try the fix Stan described:

Re: Aperture 3.4 will not open.

Download the Aperture 3.1 Trial installer (Aperture 3.1 Trial) and then upgrade again immediately, before launching Aperture.

@leonieDF: And you are now able to use Facebook via Aperture without any problems?

Folks,

David from Apple Support just requested my Aperture crash log for the Facebook crash.

My point of view is this, at least now I can getAaperture to open and work. Yes I still have Facebook issues. But at least Aperture now opens where it always crashed before. I believe Apple will work this out. Suggest others post to Aperture feedback and offer to help.

Just my 2 cents.