Aperture 3.4 on 10.8.2 crashes on launch.

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Simon Pride Author

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Aperture 3.4 on 10.8.2 crashes on launch.

Forget it - this is the root cause + resolution https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4320789?start=0&tstart=0

Anyone else seeing this?

Update to 3.4
Update to 10.8.2
Launch Aperture.
Aperture updates the default library
Once updated, Aperture attempts to open the library
Aperture crashes - see crash report
Creating a new empty library does exactly the same as step 6

Process: Aperture [306]

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

Identifier: com.apple.Aperture

Version: 3.4 (3.4)

Build Info: Aperture-301036000000000~1

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [138]

User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2012-09-21 17:00:11.464 -0400

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C54)

Report Version: 10

Interval Since Last Report: 96909 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 8

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 638 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 8

Anonymous UUID: EC82B06F-523E-C1BF-8C7E-EA8B68450052

Crashed Thread: 3 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-priority

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSURL initWithScheme:host:path:]: path 500107471 is not absolute.'

terminate called throwing an exception

abort() called

MacBook Pro 15" 2.2 GHz (3,1), Mac OS X (10.5.4), 23" Apple Cinema Display

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 2:04 PM

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Answer 1

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léonie

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Sep 21, 2012 2:19 PM in response to Simon Pride

Simon,

There is a problem with the Aperture installer. In some cases the installation is not complete, if you update on top of a recent version.

For most posters here (there must be 20 and more discussions by now) it helped to reinstall Aperture after removing the Application from the Applications Folder and the reinstalling again.

If you installed Apperture initially from the boxed retail version, reinstall from the CD/DVD.
If you installed from the AppStore, download again from the AppStore.
If you unlocked the Trial or bought online previous to the AppStore, use the saved installer or download the Trial again.

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/Aperture/061-8328 .20101020.AprE3/ApertureTrial3.1.dmg

Upgrade immediately after installing the previous version; you cannot open your current library with the previous version.

Then rebuild the library first, by holding down ⌥⌘, while launching Aperture, before you let Aperture upgrade the library.

Regards

Léonie

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Answer 2

Simon Pride Author

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Sep 21, 2012 2:23 PM in response to léonie

Hi Léonie,

In fact it's easier to do this - from the thread I added at the top of my post:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Aperture.plist

/private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.Aperture3.4Update.bom

/private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.Aperture3.4Update.plist

The bom is probably where the root cause is but for me it was not sufficient to delete it and its plist - I had to remove my own Preference plist too.

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Answer 3

Simon Pride Author

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Sep 22, 2012 12:35 PM in response to léonie

Hi Léonie,

Yep, you were right Only a temp fix; reinstalling and updating is the true resolution.

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