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Q: Aperture 3.5 on OS X 10.9

Updated iMac to Mavericks & the new Aperture 3.5. Unable to update my vaults. They run about half way thru & then Aperture crashes. I have to close. Reboot iMac & relaunch Aperture.

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Posted on Nov 3, 2013 4:57 PM

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  • by sheldonc,

    sheldonc sheldonc Nov 30, 2013 11:44 AM in response to dsloan
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    Nov 30, 2013 11:44 AM in response to dsloan

    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.

  • by VancrMarko,

    VancrMarko VancrMarko Dec 10, 2013 12:59 PM in response to dsloan
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    Dec 10, 2013 12:59 PM in response to dsloan

    Sigh, me too.  Formatted an external FW800 drive GUID and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and I cannot get Aperture to use it as a vault.  Aperture freezes part way through updating and shows as "Not Responding" in Activity Monitor.  I have to force quit Aperture.  On one occasion it froze my whole computer and I had to do a hard shut down by holding the power button on my Mac Pro.  Crap.

  • by dsloan,

    dsloan dsloan Dec 10, 2013 3:12 PM in response to VancrMarko
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    Dec 10, 2013 3:12 PM in response to VancrMarko

    That happened to me so many times, that I quit trying to do Vaults....which is BAD!

    Need a solution soon!

     

    Need for Aperture to run much more stable. Downloaded both Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5 and they run amazingly smooth and stable. And, the 'vault' backup on Lightroom 5 runs like a champ.

     

    I have a mix of mostly (80%) referenced photo files on Aperture / 20% managed. I am in the process of relocating the originals on the managed files to convert to referenced files.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Dec 10, 2013 3:31 PM in response to dsloan
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    Dec 10, 2013 3:31 PM in response to dsloan

    That happened to me so many times, that I quit trying to do Vaults....which is BAD!

    Need a solution soon!

    My backups are a regular Time Machine backup plus clones of the disks with the Aperture libraries instead of vaults. Updating the clones does not take much longer than updating a vault.

  • by VancrMarko,

    VancrMarko VancrMarko Dec 10, 2013 5:57 PM in response to léonie
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    Dec 10, 2013 5:57 PM in response to léonie

    So many problems with Aperture.  When my main "work" programme freezes my Mac Pro I feel like I have a 40 lb. iPad to surf the web and send email.  Before it would "hide" any second or third revisions of a picture I edited in Photoshop.  I had downloaded a trial of Lightroom when they finally fixed that with the latest revision.  Now this.  Erratic imports, crashed computers when setting up Vaults etc. etc.

     

    I want to spend my time taking photographs, not learning new software, so I am not anxious to change to Adobe. 

     

    I have loved Macs since I sent back a Windows XP machine in late 2001 and I have used Aperture since its very first iteration but this is really trying my patience.

  • by dsloan,

    dsloan dsloan Dec 15, 2013 11:00 AM in response to dsloan
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    Dec 15, 2013 11:00 AM in response to dsloan

    Apperture 3.5 continues to crash. SO UNSTABLE.

    Adobe Lightroom 5 runs smooth and fast on the same iMac and using the same image files from the same external HD.

    What's up Apple?!

  • by nigelch,

    nigelch nigelch Jan 8, 2014 11:53 PM in response to VancrMarko
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    Jan 8, 2014 11:53 PM in response to VancrMarko

    I'm in the same position as you. MBP 8Gb RAM, Mavericks, freezes halfway through creating Vault. External FW HDs, OSX Extended Journaled etc.
    I have looked at Acticity Monitor, and although I have no other programs running, and over 94% of my CPU is idle, the Memory Panel tells me that I'm using 7.84Gb of my RAM. Where the **** can it be going?

     

    Maybe related... I've also had horrendous troubles in Mavericks trying to ditch large numbers of image files in the Trash. Once again, it chunders to a halt and eventually freezes the machine. Seems to be a root problem with Mavericks with memory management, exacerbated by hefty programs like Aperture.

     

    Like others, I'm loathe to turn to Adobe, but as a working photographer, I can't work with this.

  • by dsloan,

    dsloan dsloan Jan 9, 2014 8:53 AM in response to dsloan
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    Jan 9, 2014 8:53 AM in response to dsloan

    Nearyly NINE weeks and still no solution from Apple. Cleaned up my Aperture Library...converted lots of images from managed over to referenced. Aperture crashed at least five times in the middle of all that work. Tried to create a new Vault from scratch. Stalled out and crashed again.

    Everything works great on my MacBook Pro. Total mess on my iMac.

    All running the exact same software and using similar external drives.

  • by dsloan,

    dsloan dsloan Jan 9, 2014 8:53 AM in response to nigelch
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    Jan 9, 2014 8:53 AM in response to nigelch

    See my post below.

    No solutions.

  • by yurx,

    yurx yurx Mar 31, 2014 12:22 PM in response to dsloan
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    Mar 31, 2014 12:22 PM in response to dsloan

         Same with mine just installed Aperture 3.5.1. Can't vault on my freenas.org filer via afp with same symptoms.

    Apple has to understand that NAS filers is the common option today to store/vault data. I can't format it in MacOS HSF Journal except I do iscsi - not good, causing extra headache. After payng 2000 rub I feel lie the one sent to stoneage.

  • by William Lloyd,

    William Lloyd William Lloyd Mar 31, 2014 3:13 PM in response to yurx
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    Mar 31, 2014 3:13 PM in response to yurx

    It's highly like the file system on the NAS doesn't support the file names used by Aperture in its library.

     

    You can create a sparse image on the NAS, mount that on your computer, and back up to it if you want.

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