Hi,
I'm using Aperture 3.5.1 on the latest version of OS X Mavericks. I have installed the latest versions and updates of both software products. The software is running on my MacBook Pro 17", i7 2.66 MHz, 8GB RAM and 2 x 240GB Intel 520 SSD's. The main SSD (hosting OS X, applications and my complete user profile) is located in the HDD bay. The second SSD is located in the DVD bay and is dedicated to my Aperture libraries only.
Aperture is hangs on a regular basis but since I moved the iCloud connection to the iPhoto (also the latest version) library, this problem has not occured anymore. I have noticed that the iCloudHelper process was using a lot of CPU time a.k.a. hanging of that process.
The crashing of Aperture and also OS X remains. OS X crashes occur rarely but always when I'm using Aperture.
Aperture crashes very often and at different actions. Still, I'm not able to reproduce this behaviour. I did notice that a lot of the crashes occur during or after applying a large number of repair/clone spots, about 200 till 300. At the moment, after applying that much repair/clone spots, I close and restart Aperture. I also noticed out-of-memory errors during this process. I always close all other applications so that Aperture can use all available memory.
When Aperture crashed and the option is showed to send the crash report to Apple, I always send it. Never got any response from Apple, though...
When Aperture has been crashed, I always repair my library before continue working on my images.
My main concern is the stability and consistency of my library.
My backup schemas are:
1 - Time Machine on a Time Capsule 2TB
2 - Aperture Vaults on my Synology NAS, 2 x 2TB WD RED's in miror configuration
3 - Time Machine backup on a secondary G-Technology G-Drive HDD 500GB
I still have all my crash reports in my Console application. I do hope that Apple will solve this problem with Aperture. I really love this application but if it remains unstable, which does not garuantee the stability and consistancy of my library, I will reconsider other applications.
With kind regards, Dennis