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can´t opne my library. HELP!

Hello, i have a problem with aperture 3. I can´t open my library since a week.It is a library in my local drive and i have all the masters referenced in an external DROBO 800 firewire . It´s a 92000 versions library.I tried the following:


1.- Start pressing SHIFT to avoid previews: doesn`t work

2.- Repair library : doesn´t work

3.- rebuild library : it starts but crashes when you start to use aperture.

( FACES is NOT enabled)

4.- Make a new library, then import my last VAULT. Result: i have all the structure ( folders, projects, albums) but 0 masters refererenced. No photos available.


I´m thinking of doing the following:


A: MAke a new library and import to it the old ( that one that doesn´t open ) to this new one.



OR


B: Do the following that i found in this forum



1/ locate your aperture library

2/ right click it & choose 'show package contents'

3/ open database/ folder

4/ backup everything you see there (e.g. by copying to desktop/aperture-backup)

5/ delete *.appdb and *.db (I've also seen people deleting previews / thumbnails)

6/ cmd+option click on your library and choose rebuild library... if it's successful,

you should see progress like 'x out of y' after few minutes. If not, kill it

7/ copy your database part back (e.g. faces.db) to see if it works with your new

library

hope this helps

good luck!



What do you think i could do more. it a very important library for me.

thanks in advance


Roberto

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 12:26 AM

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Sep 20, 2012 1:46 AM in response to RobertoRuiz

I can´t open my library since a week.It is a library in my local drive and i have all the masters referenced in an external DROBO 800 firewire

Roberto,

what is the error message you get when you try to open the library? What exactly happens? We need more details on what exactly happens, when you are trying to open the library. Can you open other libraries? Is that one the only library giving trouble?


How is your DROBO formatted?


If you get a crashlog, please post the first 50 lines


Regards

Léonie

Sep 20, 2012 2:00 AM in response to léonie

Hi Leonie, Apparently this is the library that doesn´t work. And the lilltle time it does until hang uop it works very very slowly. My DROBO is MAC os PLUS formatted and it has work since 2 years ago wothout problem. What exactly happens is tha if i start aperture it hangs without opening. I only can star it pressing ALT+OPTION or ALT to change a new library. I,m trying to start with a library from ayear ago and it cannot open it either.

This are the first lines of my report message:


MAny thanks!


Date/Time: 2012-09-19 22:49:25 +0200

OS Version: 10.5.8 (Build 9L31a)

Architecture: i386

Report Version: 4


Command: Aperture

Path: /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture

Version: 3.0 (3.0)

Build Version: 1

Project Name: Aperture

Source Version: 1001211744

Parent: launchd [173]


PID: 6769

Event: hang

Time: 8.58s

Steps: 1



Process: Aperture [6769]

Path: /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture


ADDRESS BINARY

00001000 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture

00d4a000 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/ProUtils.framework/Vers ions/A/ProUtils

00d91000 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/MobileMe.framework/Vers ions/A/MobileMe

00e8c000 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/ProXTCore.framework/Ver sions/A/ProXTCore

00f29000 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/Geode.framework/Version s/A/Geode

0112e000 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/MediaSync.framework/Ver sions/A/MediaSync

0113e000 /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager

01158000 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AERegistration.framewor k/Versions/A/AERegistration

0117b000 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AEProfiling.framework/V ersions/A/AEProfiling

0118c000 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BrowserKit.framework/Versions/A/BrowserKit

01261000 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ProKit.framework/Versions/A/ProKit

01525000 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeSlideshow.framework/Versions/A/iLifeSlid eshow

01529000 /Library/Frameworks/XSKey.framework/Versions/A/XSKey

01556000 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/PrintServices.framework /Versions/A/PrintServices

015b7000 /Library/Frameworks/iLifeFaceRecognition.framework/Versions/A/iLifeFaceRecognit ion

015df000 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser

016a0000 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeSlideshow.framework/Versions/A/Framework s/iLifeSlideshowCore.framework/Versions/A/iLifeSlideshowCore

016e2000 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeSlideshow.framework/Versions/A/Framework s/iLifeSlideshowProducer.framework/Versions/A/iLifeSlideshowProducer

01865000 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeSlideshow.framework/Versions/A/Framework s/iLifeSlideshowRenderer.framework/Versions/A/iLifeSlideshowRenderer

019e2000 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeSlideshow.framework/Versions/A/Framework s/iLifeSlideshowExporter.framework/Versions/A/iLifeSlideshowExporter

019f6000 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudioKit.framework/Versions/A/CoreAudioKit

01a27000 /Library/Frameworks/iLifeFaceRecognition.framework/Versions/A/Resources/eOkaoCo m.dylib

01a2c000 /Library/Frameworks/iLifeFaceRecognition.framework/Versions/A/Resources/eOkaoPt .dylib

01a58000 /Library/Frameworks/iLifeFaceRecognition.framework/Versions/A/Resources/eOkaoDt .dylib

01a92000 /Library/Frameworks/iLifeFaceRecognition.framework/Versions/A/Resources/eOkaoFr .dylib

01d36000 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ProKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Leopard Panels.bundle/Contents/MacOS/LeopardPanels

01db4000 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Resources/GLRendererFloa t.bundle/GLRendererFloat

15e47000 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Resources/GLEngine.bundle/GLEngine

15ffa000 /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX2000GLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ATIRade onX2000GLDriver

17443000 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/PlugIns/TaskView.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Task View

17457000 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ ATS.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ATSHI.dylib

1b6f0000 /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/CoreImageFilte rLib.dylib

1b7a9000 /Library/QuickTime/LiveType.component/Contents/MacOS/LiveType

1b7b1000 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LiveType.framework/Versions/A/LiveType

1b836000 /Library/QuickTime/DivX Decoder.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX Decoder

1b8b6000 /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera

1bcfc000 /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/MRCheckPro.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ MRCheckPro

ba900000 /System/Library/CoreServices/Encodings/libJapaneseConverter.dylib


Thread id: cdf4f20

User stack:

1 ??? [0x3026]

1 _NSProApplicationMain + 325 (in ProKit) [0x128414c]

1 -[NSApplication run] + 795 (in AppKit) [0x94605f9f]

1 ??? [0x28bea8]

1 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128 (in AppKit) [0x9460cf88]

1 __DPSNextEvent + 1189 (in AppKit) [0x9460d8e9]

1 _AEProcessAppleEvent + 38 (in HIToolbox) [0x90f59981]

1 _aeProcessAppleEvent + 177 (in AE) [0x95217425]

1 __Z25dispatchEventAndSendReplyPK6AEDescPS_ + 44 (in AE) [0x9521757e]

1 __Z20aeDispatchAppleEventPK6AEDescPS_mPh + 144 (in AE) [0x95217648]

1 __NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 223 (in Foundation) [0x94f6b7af]

1 -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 655 (in Foundation) [0x94f6ba9f]

1 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 98 (in AppKit) [0x94610014]

1 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpen:] + 284 (in AppKit) [0x9461081b]

1 -[NSApplication _sendFinishLaunchingNotification] + 77 (in AppKit) [0x94696d01]

1 -[NSApplication _postDidFinishNotification] + 125 (in AppKit) [0x94696df2]

1 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:] + 56 (in Foundation) [0x94f4ced8]

1 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 128 (in Foundation) [0x94f43680]

1 __CFXNotificationPostNotification + 179 (in CoreFoundation) [0x935a2753]

1 ___CFXNotificationPost + 362 (in CoreFoundation) [0x935a247a]

1 __nsnote_callback + 106 (in Foundation) [0x94f4642a]

1 ??? [0x610fe]

1 ??? [0x605da]

1 ??? [0x211ab9]

1 ??? [0x214198]

1 ??? [0x49055c]

1 ??? [0x844244]

1 ??? [0x3c2141]

1 ??? [0x3c923f]

1 ??? [0x253a2a]

1 ??? [0x349d00]

1 ??? [0x356fe6]

1 ??? [0x32f245]

1 ??? [0x32e7ca]

1 ??? [0x32c838]

1 ??? [0x32c792]

1 ??? [0x32c706]

1 ??? [0x32c54a]

1 ??? [0x315c96]

1 ??? [0x30cffd]

1 ___pread + 10 (in libSystem.B.dylib) [0x94e0f10a]

Kernel stack:

1 _unix_syscall + 572 [0x3e3a7f]

1 _pread_nocancel + 174 [0x391751]

1 _nosys + 593 [0x39164d]

1 _vn_rdwr + 353 [0x1ede33]

1 _VNOP_READ + 168 [0x1f8492]

1 _hfs_vnop_read + 308 [0x32cad0]

1 _cluster_read + 61 [0x1d3648]

1 _cluster_read_ext + 266 [0x1d2920]

1 _cluster_pageout + 2945 [0x1d1527]

1 _msleep + 157 [0x3863e8]

1 _uiomove + 653 [0x386037]

1 _lck_mtx_sleep + 87 [0x130d90]

1 _thread_block + 33 [0x136f20]

1 _thread_continue + 1180 [0x136c

Sep 20, 2012 2:28 AM in response to RobertoRuiz

A hang report unfortunately does not tell much. Are there any more diagnostic messages in the Console window?


I see you are using the very first Aperture 3 version 3.0.


With your current MacOS you should be able to upgrade to Aperture 3.0.3 at least, see the Download suport page:

Aperture 3.0.3


Perhaps upgrading will help, there are a few bugfixes.


Do you have a second drive where you could move your library to, to see if the drive is the problem?


And have you tested, if the DROBO is ok? You could check this by creating a new, empty library; importing some images and referencing them on the DROBO.


Does your Aperture Library contain MobileMe albums? Can it be that it is still hanging trying to connect to Mobile Me? Have you signed out from MobileMe in the System Preferences and Aperture's web preferences?


The list of things you tried already is very impressive. I see, that you did not list removing the Preferences - I'd try that next, see the

Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805

on how to do this; also check, if you tried all basic measures.


I like your idea to try to import the Aperture Library into a new library. If none of the above does help, try that next.


Regards

Léonie

Sep 20, 2012 3:57 AM in response to RobertoRuiz

I haven´t installed it because it doesn´t appear in the software update.

If you did not see the updates in Software update - you might even be able to update to Aperture 3.1.2, that looks like the last version compatible with Leopard: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1369


But I'd make sure you have a backup of your current setup, before you try any major changes again 🙂

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