New to Aperture, Longtime iPhoto User - Aperture Crashing!

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Hello Aperture Community!I recently purchased Aperture after having lots of problems with my iPhoto library crashing - issues which were not resolved by rebuilding the library within iPhoto and by attempts to us iPhoto Library Manager to do a complete rebuild. I have a lot of experience with iPhoto and have much appreciated the guidance I have had from the iPhoto community (and I have tried to help others as well).I moved to Aperture in the hopes that migrating my images would solve the problem. I have a large library &gt;90K pictures and it took about a day to import to Aperture via File&gt;Import&gt;Library command. The resulting file is over 600 GB I was dismayed that it automatically randomizes my Event order and creates Projects for every album and event - but I suspect that is normal. My Album order was likewise randomized - everything now in alphabetical order rather than the custom order I had used in iPhoto. Oh well, another few hours work should solve that. Then, Aperture crashed as well. I visited http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com a couple times and felt better. Crash report through crashed thread is below. Any ideas would be much appreciated - I am assuming that I have a corrupt file which is crashing it, possibly as Faces makes its way through the library. Is that a good assumption? Any way to find the file? Anyone out there who has faced similar issues just to commiserate with?Thanks for any help!BobProcess:         Aperture [5705]Path:            /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/ApertureIdentifier:      com.apple.ApertureVersion:         3.4.3 (3.4.3)Build Info:      Aperture-310022000000000~2App Item ID:     408981426App External ID: 12009533Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)Parent Process:  launchd [141]User ID:         501Date/Time:       2012-11-30 20:54:08.751 -0500OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)Report Version:  10Crashed Thread:  7Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00007fc727700000VM Regions Near 0x7fc727700000:    MALLOC_TINY            00007fc727000000-00007fc727700000 [ 7168K] rw-/rwx SM&#x3D;PRV  --&gt;     MALLOC_SMALL           00007fc727800000-00007fc728000000 [ 8192K] rw-/rwx SM&#x3D;PRV  Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff916b4686 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léonie · Accepted Answer

Bob,When does the crash happen? Directly on start up, or when you start working with the library?The bad access error really looks like a data error - it crashes when accessing a jpeg.It looks like you imported this problem from iPhoto. Do you remember which iPhoto events you had imported to iPhoto, right before the problem started?To check, if a corrupted image is causing the crashes, I&#x27;d recommend two things: Launch Aperture with the ⌥-key held down to create a new library and import some test images. Can you work with this library without problems?If Aperture is o.k. with a new library, launch it again on your main library: Select the library in the Finder and hold the "Shift" key down, while you double click the library. This will defer the generation of previews. If indeed a corrupted image is causing the crashes, Aperture usually will crash when trying to render a preview for the image. Deferring this should enable you to browse your library and check the projects you most recently imported. Post back, if you can launch Aperture with preview generation turned off, then we can try to advise you how to find a corrupted image.One more thing; if you could not repair your library while still using iPhoto, you might consider to try to repair the library and the permissions now in  Aperture.See: Aperture 3 User Manual: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture LibraryRegardsLéonie

Robert Stone · Answer

Léonie,Thanks for your advice. Oddly, I am able to work for extended periods with even the library that crashed even if previews are being rendered in background. That is the frustrating thing in that it is an intermittent failure. But, I think I may be onto something. I found an image which is cleary corrupt - though that does not mean it has to be the cause, of course. I found that file (which was fairly recently imported) in Aperture and when manipulating it got the beach ball for about a minute but the program did not totally crash. I tried importing just a small set of pictures including that file to a new iPhoto library and noticed something - the thumbnail does not match the full sized image, even after doing a thumbnail rebuild. Here are the images:There is a stripe in the center which seems to shift after opening as well. Clearly it is corrupt - is there any way to know for sure this is the culprit?Bob

léonie · Answer

Have you tried to open the original image file in a different photo application? Preview, Photoshop?You could try to export the original image file to the Desktop and exeriment with other programs.Also, remove the file from your library and see, if the trouble stops.

Robert Stone · Answer

I am now certain that the file mentioned above / corrupt jpeg is the source of my problems. I was transferring data from one hard drive to another - about 1 TB of data - and the transfer stopped after many hours noting that the finder was unable to transfer this one file among many many thousands. I tried to throw the file in the trash and hung the finder that way as well. I figure that if this file can crash the whole computer then crashing iPhoto or Aperture would be small potatoes in comparison.Thanks to leonieDF for your help!I hope this post helps someone at some point.