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Solution for Aperture 3.5 and OSX 10.9 Maverick's crashing

Installed Mavericks and Aperture 3.5

since the installation only issues I am having are with Aperture.

Aperture crashes fairly often, couple times an hour while veiwing, rating or adjusting pictures. Does not seem to happen if looking at projects or looking at photos in the large grid view.

Occurs in multiple libraries.

Actions I have taken that have not solved it!:

Repaired Disk

Repaird disk permissions

repaired Library permissions

repaired library

rebuilt library

trashed plist

deleted and reinstalled aperture.

Opened all libraries in Iphoto latest version. No crashes.

HELP!

Rick

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 24" 2009 iMac, 8 gig ram, GT120

Posted on Oct 28, 2013 8:29 PM

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léonie

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Posted on Oct 28, 2013 11:57 PM

Does it happen, when you are using Aperture from a different user account? For example signed in from the Guest account?

Is your Aperture library on your system drive or on an external drive? How full is the disk? Is the library referenced or managed? raw images or jpegs?

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léonie

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Oct 31, 2013 2:33 PM in response to rxstuve

Thanks for letting us know, Rick.

rxstuve Author

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Oct 31, 2013 7:38 PM in response to léonie

you bet no problem.

I will update you all when i get feedback.

I am very excited to hear from the apple store genius about how software broke my hardware!!

Nov 1, 2013 1:13 PM in response to rxstuve

The same here! Since Mavericks my Aperture is crashing all the time when I'm trying to close it.

No update of sharing previews, because it crashes every time.

I have and had no hardware problems, but my Aperture database is pretty large = 700 GB.

It worked without crashes with 10.8.

I'm pretty sure they changed the data handling and they have NOT tested it with larger database files.

2 x 6-core, 64 GB RAM, 9TB Soft Raid

rxstuve Author

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Nov 6, 2013 9:00 AM in response to rxstuve

Hello all,

Apple recomended that I make sure the external drive is working and with out errors I called GTech and talked with them. The tech I talked to said he has had a few calls from people upgrading to Mavericks and his recomendation has been to reset the SMC and PRAM would be the first step then re partitioning would be next. He said that resetting the PRAM resets the FireWire bus. I have reset the SMC already but did it again then reset the PRAM.

I have been working with Aperture for over 3 hours now with out error, freeze, or any issues whatsoever. And this is as the origional set up so... I don't want to Jinx myself but it was crashing about 4 times per hour so I am getting a better feeling.

I'll post if this does not permanently solve the issue.

Thanks all for your help.

Kind Regards,

Rick

Nov 7, 2013 8:50 AM in response to rxstuve

That worked for me!

I've resetted PRAM and now it's not crashing anymore.

THANKS!

Nov 7, 2013 9:26 PM in response to rxstuve

Try 3.4.5 Update that is more for aplication perform. Update 3.5 is only for rwa compatibiliry.

go to apple website then support then download then search box aperture 3 and you'll see all the Updates click 3.4.5

end install.

Tanduà

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Nov 10, 2013 12:53 AM in response to rxstuve

some problems happen to me.

When I use aperture 3.5 mavericks crash.

These are the step to go to crash (video flipper, i need to forse shutdown and reset pram after)

first time

1. open aperture

2. create a project

3 from another project adjust image then copy to project (2)

4. export image to a folder

5. (if select 10 or 20 image) system -crash..kernel panic, video hang i can't do anyhing only a "brutal" shutdown

6. when i restart aperture...aperture say "library damaged, repair?" I repair

second time

...the same things

Tanduà

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Nov 10, 2013 12:54 AM in response to Wolfgang Gaebler

me too...but after 24 hours...same problem.

Nov 10, 2013 2:08 PM in response to rxstuve

I am having the same crash symptoms. Never had this problem until Aperture 3.5 and Mavericks. If I work in Aperture about an hour, then as I perform an action such as adjusting contrast, etc. the system crashes and reboots. Sometimes have to do a hard restart.

I definitely have enough horsepower as I am working on a 2012 iMac, 3.4 GHz Core i7, 32 GB RAM, 2TB Fusion drive. Never had this issue working with Apeture before latest update to Mavericks and Aperture 3.5.

rxstuve Author

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Nov 11, 2013 7:35 AM in response to rxstuve

Unfortunately the day after I reset the PRAM it started crashing again. Resetting the Pram did not fix it again. 😟 Not sure why...

Very unfortunate and I really cant figure out why it's only happening with Aperture. Apple said its a hardware issue but if it was, I would expect it to happen with other system intense programs like Final Cut and Plural Eyes. but it does not.

though you all should know it was not a permanent fix to reset the PRAM. At least for me.

Rick

thewobbs

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Nov 11, 2013 1:35 PM in response to rxstuve

Brand new iMac loaded with Mavericks and Aperture 3.5 system has crashed about 5 times this evening!!! All I'm doing at the moment is deleting unwanted images from a project, have not even started editing them yet.