Problems with Aperture UI in 3.4.4

Anthony,

test if the broken interface only occurs when working from your regular User account:

See: Isolating an issue by using another user account

Sign into a different account and run Aperture on a new aperture library. Does the user interface work correctly there? If yes, then you may have problematic preferences files or presets in your account.

Remove the Aperture's user preferences from the User Library as described here:

Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics

Regards

Léonie

Note:

Your User Library is hidden by default - to open it in a Finder window use the "Go" menu from the Finder's main menu bar.

• Quit Aperture, if it is running:
• Open the user library by using the Finder's "Go > Go to Folder" menu and hold down the options-key, until "Library" appears in the drop down menu. Select it.
• In the widow that will open, scroll down to "Preferences"
• From the "Preferences" folder remove "com.apple.Aperture.plist".

Then try to launch Aperture again.

But deleting the "Preferences" file will cause Aperture to forget the preferences settings. Be prepared to have to reset all options you set using the Aperture Preferences panel.

What I wanna try is what you suggested about deleting Aperture's User Preferences.... but will that delete all my Project Names and Albums..? that's a huge fear... I have been using Aperture since day one of it's release... about 12,000 images in my file... and 95% all personal... I don't care abour preference settings... it's the display of my library I want back if possible.

Anthony,

all your edit, albums, project names are stored in your Aperture Library. The preference file "com.apple.Aperture.plist" mainly contains what you set in Aperture's Preferences panel, the path to your current Aperture library, the list of last opened libraries, the layout of your UI elements.

So all your library organization will not be touched by this.

Léonie

Added: seeing you are running Mt. Lion:

In Lion and Mt. Lion the preferences are mirrored in Apertures sandbox and you cannot be sure, if Aperture really terminates all processes finally.

Logoff and login again before removing are essential when running MacOS X Lion or later, otherwise the deletion may not take, for Aperture may still be cached and write the old preferences back.

To clear the mirored files also remove

~Library/Containers/com.apple.Aperture/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.Aperture/

if this folder exists.

You are welcome. I am glad you could solve it, Anthony! 🙂

Cheers

Léonie

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