leonieDF wrote:
Your hardware looks perfect for Aperture.
What is your MacOS X version and Aperture version?
How full is your System drive? Aperture can get slow, when the system drive is nearly full.
Also, Aperture can become unresponsive, if your Aperture library needs repairing. Have you recently run the Aperture Library First Aid Tools? If not, I'd repair the library, see: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual
And if you imported some corrupted media (videos, image files), this may slow Aperture down. DO you still have these problems, when you launch Aperture with the Shift-key held down, to defer the generation of previews?
Another known issue with Aperture 3.3 and later is some peculiar quirk, when you imported n iPhoto library to Aperture. Did you import an iPhoto library and and does this library contain smart albums created in iPhoto? Then I'd recommend to delete these albums and to redefine them in Aperture.
To narrow down the problem, I'd make a few test:
- Try editing when launching Aperture on a new Aperture library created for testing. Is the performance better?
- Try editing when launching Aperture from a different user account on a new library. Still the same slowness?
If it works well on a new library, you will need to troubleshoot your current library.
If it works well in a new user account, there are settings in your account that need fixing.
If you are having the same problem in all accounts, your system or Aperture need s fixing.
Please report back after testing.
Regards
LĂ©onie
Ok I don't know how to break up a quote in this forum so I'm going to address each question and comment by bullet point
1) I'm using OSX 10.8.3 and Aperture 3.4.4. In other words, latest version of each.
2) My hard drive is 80% full with 220Gb left.
3) I have done repairing database and permissiones regulardly. I cannot do rebuild database (due to the curve reset bug).
4) Holding shift did not help
5) I've tried launching a new aperture library with just one RAW file for editing. Same performance problem.
6) I've tried launch with a new OSX user and rebooted straight into the user with no programs running excpet for just aperture. Still same performance problem.
More details on what I consider "performance problem"
1) It's not uncommon when 100% zoomed in working with brushes, that I only see the brush gets applied after 3-4 seconds. My mouse is done drawing and nothing happens until 4 seconds later. Not all strokes are like that though, sometimes it's instant.
2) It's not uncommon when I toggle a brick, the effect won't be reflected after 5-8 seconds after. Sometimes the status bar will show "processing", sometimes it doesn't. This is extremely annoying because when working wtih something like sharpness brick, I want to toggle on and off to see the subtle difference but since each toggle is 5-8 seconds, youe eye "numbs' out and cannot really see the difference when toggled.
3) When either of the above scenarios happen, I notice from activity monitor the only thing that is busy is CPU. Disk I/O seems low and RAM has plenty of it free (16GB free).
3) When either of the above scenarios happen, the entire computer locks up. For example, when I brushed something and it's loading, I cannot scroll the side panels in aperture. No UI is responsive. I even tested other app, Safari for example is unresponsive during this time.
I'm not sure there's something wrong with my OSX. I remember having the same performance problem when I had my last iMac few months ago. I migrated using migration assitant.
Also, I just did another test on my retina macbook pro. Same problem. Brand new aperture library, same file, same edits, same bricks.