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Q: Abnormal behavior of adjustments

Hi all,

sometimes, just randomly, I cannot see the adjustments I've made to some pictures, mostly brushes, but even exposure.

If I quit Aperture and relaunch, most times this seems to solve the problem, other times just don't.

Adjustments however are there, in fact if I "lift adjustments" I can see brushes strokes and other things listed, but if I export the image then no adjustments are visible on the final jpeg.

If I duplicate version, the new version does have all the adjustments.

Also - and this is odd - if I resize the viewer window, I can see the adjustments, but they just disappear as soon as I stop resizing...

I've been searching the net for solutions but haven't found any so far.

Does anyone have or had the same problem?

Many thanks for your help in advance

 

 

Regards,

Guido

Posted on Oct 9, 2013 9:03 AM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Oct 9, 2013 11:00 PM in response to MacGuido
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    Oct 9, 2013 11:00 PM in response to MacGuido

    Guido, I have never seen this happen.

    But to be able to experiment and to try to reproduce the problem, it would help to know your exact Aperture version and MacOS X version.

    And what are your settings in Aperture? Have you "Quick Preview" enabled in the "View" menu? Ar you using full screen mode?

    Have you set Aperture to share previews?

     

    For trouble shooting this issue I'd start by testing if this problem is specific to your current user library. Does it also happen in new test libraries? If not, I'd run the Aperture Library First Aid Tools, see: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual

     

    Regards

    Léonie

  • by MacGuido,

    MacGuido MacGuido Oct 9, 2013 11:41 PM in response to léonie
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    Oct 9, 2013 11:41 PM in response to léonie

    Hi Léonie,

    thanks for your reply.

    To answer your questions:

    OSX 10.8.5

    Aperture 3.4.5

    No full screen mode when editing.

    Share previews is turned off.

    Quick preview is 1920x1920, preview quality 8 medium.

    Does not happen in new test library.

    I tried repairing and rebuilding the library with no success.

    I want to try trashing the library cache folder, but cannot find it, the path should be user/library/caches.

    Any ideas?

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Oct 10, 2013 4:57 AM in response to léonie
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    Oct 10, 2013 4:57 AM in response to léonie

    Hi Léonie,

    thanks for your reply.

    To answer your questions:

    OSX 10.8.5

    Aperture 3.4.5

    No full screen mode when editing.

    Share previews is turned off.

    Quick preview is 1920x1920, preview quality 8 medium.

    Does not happen in new test library.

    I tried repairing and rebuilding the library with no success.

    I want to try trashing the library cache folder, but cannot find it, the path should be user/library/caches.

    Any ideas?

    Your User Library is hidden by default in 10.7.x or later - to open it in a Finder window use the "Go" menu from the Finder's main menu bar.

    • Quit Aperture, if it is running. Log off and on again.
    • 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".
    • Do the same for the mirrored items in "Caches".

    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.

     

     

    However, before starting to trash Preferences, check, if the problem is unique to your user account. If you log into a different  user account (for example, the guest account) and launch Aperture there, do you see the same strange behaviour? Then deleting User preferences will not help at all. In that case reinstall Aperture. See   Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics

     

    If however the problem is not system wide and only occurs in your account, tr, if removing any presets from "your user library > Application Support > Aperture" will make a difference