Upgraded to Aperture 3.4.5. When importing photos into Aperture, Aperture does see any items in the OS Pictures folder. Aperture sees files in all other folders.
I reinstalled Aperture 3.0 from disk and the problem was not present. After an upgrade back to 3.4.5, the problem persits.
Aperture 3, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
Once the Terminal is open enter the following command
ls -lde@ Pictures
output
0: group:everyone deny delete
Erics-MacBook-Pro:~ ERIC$
File system is normal and unchanged, straight out of the Apple box
Output of the command should have included permissions similar to
LIBMACLAPcaggiano:~ frank$ ls -lde@ Pictures
drwx------@ 37 frank admin 1258 May 18 11:10 Pictures/
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
LIBMACLAPcaggiano:~ frank$
Could you try again?
Also not sure why you have 0: group:everyone deny delete
set on the folder. Doesn't seem right. It indicates no one can delete files from the Picture folder.
You could try running the following
chmod -N Pictures
which should reset the ACL's on the folder.
Tried chmod -N Pictures, nil help.
Visable folder ermissions on Pictures folder are identical to every onther home folder form which I can successfully import.
So to recap; Aperture cannot see any files or folders in the home Pictures folder. Even if you make a new user, log in as that user, run Aperture, Apertute does not see anything in that users home Picture folder.
Is all that correct so far?
In addition you say you are running a plain OS X install the Home and Picture folders on on the root drive and nothing has been done to them. (why that ACL is set on your Picture folder should be investigated at some point).
Getting the complete ls output for the Pictures folder, as I showed, would be helpful. Also a screen shot of Aperture's input window could be helpful.
I'm running 3.4.5 on 10.8.4 with no problems as are most folk here so this isn't strictly an Aperture problem but some weird interaction on your system. When did you upgrade to 10.8.4?
Also can you access the Pictures folder with other applications? Finder, iPhoto, Preview, TextEdit, etc.
Thank you everyone for your help..
Spent a few hours with a number of Apple "Genius'" folks. All of your suggestions covered exactly what the Geniueses suggested to do. Turned out to be the stumper of the day for them. Fortunately, the fault was found.
Turns out that one single AVCHD video filein the target folder had a format that was incompatible with Aperture. It's presence made the entire folder's content of 5000 photos invisible.
Regards to all
Turns out that one single AVCHD video filein the target folder had a format that was incompatible with Aperture. It's presence made the entire folder's content of 5000 photos invisible.
Mystery solved! Wow! 😎
What exactly is the type/codec of the problematic video? It would be really good to know for future reference, what kind of video can be causing this. I tried just now with all kind of videos to reproduce the problem in my Aperture installation, but did not succeed.
Glad you got it resolved but this is one of the strangest interactions I think I've ever heard of.
As Léonie wrote it would be helpful if you could supply any additional information on this.
Thanks
regards
Aperture 3.4.5. When importing, Aperture does see any items in the OS Pictures folder.
