Aperture 3.5 on OS X 10.9

The same issue on my Aperture. I have 3.5 running on OS 10.9 and any attempt on updating the vaults on NAS are unsucesfull. Aperture just stops responding.

I tried to create a new vault on USB connected external drive but with the same results.

I did repair permission and database but no progress at all.

Any help or ideas?

How are your drives formatted? A vault is essentially an Aperture library and needs to be on a drive formatted MacOS X Extended journaled. Previous versions of Aperture tried to work with incorrectly formatted drives, but Aperture 3.5 is checking the formatting and will not open a lbrary on a drive with the wrong formatting. Your NAS has probably a different filesystem, since a NAS requires special software, and what is the formatting of your USB drive?

For many years I had never a single issue with the vault on NAS ( Synology) starting with Aperture 2 till now.

Yes, it is most probably Synology proprietary format and it's a pity that Apple didn't mentioned vault limitation on 3.5 release notes.

Yeah, I don't need the iCloud Photo Sharing but I DO NEED the vaults

My USB disc is Mac OS Extended Journaled. Aperture is not responding as I see it at the Dock and in the system. However the disc is working and the file size is continuously growing, currently 170 GB with expected size approx. 220 GB.

I will post final results in a few hours.

Just to continue the topic...

Updating the vault continued for another 4 hours with Aperture still in "not responding" mode.

But after that time the was no disc activity so I decided to force quit of Aperture.

Then I restarted it againg and started to update the vault once again.

Aperture went into "not responding" again but this time for approx 20 min and then...

.. the green colour confirmed that vault is up to date and working !!!

With the NAS vault there is no progress at all.

So I presume that it needs to be a Mac OS Extended Journaled volume, but there should be a fix for Aperture to communicate with Maverics properly and not showing "not responding" message.

dsloan - is your vault also on an external drive, specifically a NAS setup drive? If so, how is it configured?

In general NAS drives, though convenient, are not recommended for your libraries (or vaults) themselves, per this support article, due to the proprietary formating/mounting configurations: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3252

Having completed a photo shoot at the weekend I've just discovered I have this problem too.

I also feel very vulnerable not being able to back up the clients work - Aperture is classed as a "Professional Application" and the way its is working at the moment feels very amateurish !!

Back to my iMac now. All three external HDs are:

Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

How are your drives connected? If you are having them daisy-chained or are using a HUB, try to connect the drive with the vault directly. There have been reports that Mavericks sometimes has problems with daisy-chained drives or certain USB HUBs.

Re: Copying aperture library from one external disk to another fails with error -36

I recall older posts noted that vaults will sometimes take a really long time to complete and might appear they might be hanging. I suggest letting it run overnight and see if it finishes...maybe longer.

Yes, I am getting frustrated and disappointed with Aperture, as well. I used to love this program, it would fly though pictures and I'd be able to get phenomenal results. Now it's drag, drag, drag.

All of my photos and vaults are on an external Hitachi 3TB hd formatted as Mac extended journalled. It connects to the iMac via FW 800. Nearly 100% of my files are referenced to this drive. Most of the originals are raw files from a Canon 5d MkII.

Recently I have noticed severe lag between applying and the apperance of effects. Things are very slow to load. After using Aperture for a while it bogs horribly, so badly it become unusable. I have to quit and restart Aperture, but it doesn't clear the memory completely and quickly bogs again. Memory leak?

At this point I thought updating the library would be a good idea. Now it gets stuck at about 1/8th of the way (right at the end of the word "Updating" where it says "Updating vault ...") then hangs, with spinning pinwheel and the dock says "Application not responding."

Really, if this is the way Aperture behaves while doing something complex, they need to make the user very aware of that fact, because in my experience these are the signs of a dead program.

I am also going to uninstall all of my plugins to see what happens, speciffically Nik/google, much as it pains me. That might speed it up as well.