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I upgraded to Aperture 3.4 this morning, and now it will not open at all! It crashes every time, and tries rebuilding the library and repairing most times. The Library open fine in Iphoto

Every time since I upgraded this morning, attempting to open Aperture causes a crash. I upgraded to Aperture 3.4 this morning, and now it will not open at all! It crashes every time, and tries rebuilding the library and repairing most times. The Library open fine in Iphoto

Aperture 3, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Airbook

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 5:33 AM

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Sep 20, 2012 8:09 AM in response to iteachcoffee

Your library is probably fine, as are your prefs. Its an install problem. Deleting prefs are a temp solution only.


Just delete the app and reinstall form your source media (dvd) and update directly to 3.4 (or Redownload from app store); that fixes the problem, ie, a missing or incorrect version of the PrintServices framework in the application.

You can leave your old prefs, the key is deleting your old app copy on your system and starting from an early version.


Make sense? Try that and report back what you find.

Sep 20, 2012 12:15 PM in response to iteachcoffee

The serial number will show in the About- panel (from the main menu bar: Aperture > About Aperture).


So you have to get Aperture to run at least once - try to launch it with the options key held down, and create a new library, try to launch it from a new user account, try to trash the Aperture preferences - hopefully you get it to run at least to be able to open the panel.

Sep 20, 2012 12:46 PM in response to iteachcoffee

The User Library is hidden by default. You can reveal it from the Finder's "GO" menu:


Finder > Go, then hold down the options ⌥ key, until the Library appears in the drop-down menu, select it and open the Library folder. Then go to the "Preferences" sub folder and remove

your Home Folder/Library/Preferences/com.apple.aperture.plist.


Or use the Terminal:

Type the following line into the window and hit return:

cd; open ~/Library/Preferences

Sep 20, 2012 3:07 PM in response to Clem

@Clem: Thanks a ton. Reinstalling and applying 3.4 did the trick.


(I got the upgrading library business originally, then the crash everyone sees. The library opened in iPhoto just fine. After the reinstall and 3.4 update, my serial number was still there as you said, and launching started a library repair process that took a while ... but then all seemed fine.)


Grateful to this community of shared knowledge / solutions!

I upgraded to Aperture 3.4 this morning, and now it will not open at all! It crashes every time, and tries rebuilding the library and repairing most times. The Library open fine in Iphoto

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