Adjustments applied to wrong image.

This is not something I (or I would guess most users) have experienced.

So you are saying that if you have an image in the viewer and apply adjustments to it, while you are applying the adjustments it seems fine (they appear in the image in the viewer) but when you leave the image and go back to it the adjustments aren't there?

Dave, have you the Primary Only flag enabled? See: Keywords or ratings are applied only to one of the selected images - why?

And have you repaired your Aperture Library? Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual

This happens all the time, it is reproducible or it's a once in a while thing?

Have you tried Léonie'a suggestion of doing a library repair? That should be your first step.

As a suggestion I would work in film strip mode until the problem is located. This way you can see if the image in the viewer window is the image that is selected in the browser.

Other things you can try if the problem is reproducible or at least happening often enough so you rely on it occurring. Make a new library and import some images into it and see if the problem still occurs. If it doesn't happen in the new library that will at least tell you it is something in the old library.

If it also happens in the new library try making a new user and run Aperture as that user. This will tell you if the problem is system wide or restricted to your environment.

I wish I had more but in a situation like yours with a strange intermittent problem trying to pin down the source of the error is going to take some time.

regards

That is bizarre. It does seem that if you select the Adjustment tab by using ctrl-a adjustments aren't applied!

To reproduce:

1) While in the Library pane of the inspector with the browser open select an image.

2) Switch to the viewer

3) ctrl-a to switch to Adjustment tab

4) apply adjustment

Adjustment is not applied.

That is bizarre.

Even worse; intermittently, the Adjustment tab comes up completely empty, when I switch to it using ctrl-A.

Yep saw that also. Just tried applying an effect from the Effects menu that seems to work.

OK Who want s to let Apple know? 😀

Exactly! I can't believe no one has discovered this until now. Do you guys not normally use keyboard shortcuts to switch between projects, adjustments and metadata panes?

Hard to say when this got into the system. It definitely wasn't like this in early version of Aperture 3. While I'll use shortcuts for things like turning on and off metadata, when it comes to moving around in the library I pretty much stick to the mouse.

You might want to point them to this thread also so they see its not just your problem.

good catch.

regards