Mike Burk

Q: Aperture Slow

Aperture seems to slow or stall after I make adjustments to images... sometimes 3 to 4 minutes. Something I can do or system setting I can make to make this run faster.

Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Dec 22, 2012 12:00 AM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Dec 22, 2012 12:30 AM in response to Mike Burk
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    Dec 22, 2012 12:30 AM in response to Mike Burk
    Something I can do or system setting I can make to make this run faster.

     

    There may be several reasons for this - the first thing to do what be to try to find out what is going on and to get more clues. Do you have the "Activity window" open? If not, launch it before starting to edit (Window > Show Activity). This will display the running processes.

     

    Aperture may be trying to render preiews after editing. Look in the Activity window, if you can catch the filename of the file it is trying to process.

    • If it is not the file that you just edited, Aperture is reprocessing an previously imported file. Check if this file has an incompatible file type, for example an unsupported video type or is corrupted in some way. if yes, then remove it from the library and convert it to a compatible version.
    • You may have installed an incompatible video codec, see: Aperture 3: May be unresponsive or have slower performance with third-party video codec
    • If Aperture is stalling and having trouble to process the file you just edited, you may have a general performance problem. Are your images very large raw files or scans? If your images are moderately sized, and still take long to process, check the available system ressources.
      • How much RAM do you have?
      • Are many other applications running and competing for RAM? Then quit other applications. One of them may have a memory leak. Then reboot before openeing Aperture; this will reclaim the memory.
      • Is your system drive full? Less than at leat 10GB free? Then free disk space by deleting files or relocating them to another disk.
      • Is your Aperture library on a slow drive? A network volume? Relocate it to a faster, directly connected disk.
    • Does your Aperture library have a problem? Did Aperture crash recently, and you did not yet repair the library? Then use the Aperture Library First Aid Tools to repair your Library database and the permissions, see: Aperture 3 User Manual: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library

    Post back, if none of this fixes the problem, or if you have more clues to the problem.

     

    Regards

    Léonie