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Cannot find smart albums

I recently bought Aperture off the net after giving up on iPhoto - it kept hanging despite rebuilding and totally reinstalling. Now my Aperture is also crashing a lot - eek!

But my main question is this -- why does my Aperture look totally different to the one in the manual? I cannot find the smart albums that they say are already created. I do not have a tab on the side that says Projects and Albums -- -I have two separate ones for each of these lables. So when the manual says open the disclosure triangle on "Projects & Albums" - what do I do? I tried both and I do not have the "Library Albums" with the preset smart albums in them.

What to do? Someone please help me - will be sooooooooooooo grateful.

Kaz 😕

MacBook Pro

Posted on Nov 8, 2012 12:32 PM

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kazjaz Author

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Nov 16, 2012 2:54 PM in response to kazjaz

sorry - I found it...

😊

léonie

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Nov 16, 2012 9:42 PM in response to kazjaz

One more thing - with iPhoto crashing and Aperture crashing - in obscure places like the versioning system - this looks like you may have installed incompatible software that is interfering and corrupting your system.

Do you get the same crashes, when working from a different user account ( I mean a new user account created for testing, with no added start-up items, only using the default preferences)?

And do you get the same crashes, when working with a brand-new Aperture library, created for testing?

Did you install any other software, before iPhoto started to crash? Do you use older plug-ins, helper applications, haxies?

Cannot find smart albums