aperture 3.5.1 - unsupported image format - suddenly

Nothing puzzling here. It is a temporary problem caused by an interaction between certain plugins and Aperture 3.5.1. A restart and (only sometimes necessary) reprocessing "fixes" the images - because they themselves were never the cause of the issue.

Many seem to have the same problem. So do I, mostly in Viveza and Define.

But now the interesting part:

Since I am from Germany, Aperture and my OS run in German language. This is where the above mentioned problems keep occurring. But when I switch the OS to English and restart Aperture then, everything works just fine. As soon as I switch back to German (and restart Aperture), the problems return.

Weird, isn't it?

Now, ideas anyone?

I can confirm this: switch system language from German to English and restart system, edit some RAW file with Viveza, no "unsupported image format".

This is valuable information for the developers, it still needs to be fixed.

Currently restaring Aperture has become common routine for me: edit some image in Viveza => quit and restart Aperture => go on.

So far, I have had the same problem with one image. I use Photomatix, and only one image has disappeared so far. It was gone from its project, a photobook, and a slideshow. Not knowing about this thread, I replaced it with an exported file of the same image. When I get home today, I'll try to "reprocess" the image.

Thanks, all.

I am having the same problem since upgradiong to Mavericks 10.9.1 and Aperture 3.5.1 However it is happening to a number of photos provided by my daughter who edited them in iPhoto, not one of the third party editing package. The jpeg photos (not RAW) were shot with a Nikon D90 and a Canon Powershot SD855. They show up in the browser and in a photobook I created in Aperture, but when I went to look at it in Preview, about 20 of her images had not printed. To try to remedy the situation, I went to the first photo and try to generate a new Prview and that is when the black rectangle with the "Unsupported file format" message appeared. Restarting aperture did not fix the issue. Nor did reprocess original.

It would be important to know the version of iPhoto she used. Aperture and iPhoto for some things need to kept in sync as to versions.

Ernie

Hello everybody, I think this might help:

http://www.apertureexpert.com/tips/2013/12/18/reprocessing-previously-unsupporte d-images

best

M

HI micmol

The images in question in my Aperture Library are jpeg's not RAW, so the issue was not caused by Aperture's inability to support new camera's raw files. They are jpegs that were working perfectly before I upgraded to 10.9.1 and 3.51, but now will not reprocess when I make an adjustment or try to create a new thumbnail or preview. Is anyone else having this issue?

Nic,

If you are not using an English system, try what Johannes mentions about switching languages. If it's English already, then try and reprocess all the images using the Photos>Reprocess Originals. Other then that, it's possible that it could be a permissions issue. You might need to repair permissions. You can try and sign into a different user to see if that changes.

I can corfirm this. Was running OS X 10.9.1 in Belgian Dutch and had exactly the same problems as described multiple times in this forum. After a manipuation with NIK software an unpredictable number of photo's would become "unsupported". However I could not recover them with the "reprocessing" function and had to restore from my Timemachine. When I changed my OS to English thinks seem to work fine. I did at least a dozen manipulations with NIK since on different photo's and all seems stable. I have the impression that the problem started since the last RAW 5.03 update.

I import from a Nikon D7000 in RAW.

There is a new version from Nik (1.110). I've tried it, but it does not solve the problem.

https://support.google.com/nikcollection/answer/4400822

I took the problematic jpegs, imported them in a new updated 9.5.1 iPhoto library, exported them and reimported them all into Aperture 3.5.1. All are fine now. As i mentioned before, I had not edited them with Nik, nor were the images shot in RAW, so I don't know why they corrupted. Anyway, my problem is now solved.

Same here, suddenly see black blocks for the images's versions. The good thing is that the raw files are still virgin. The bad thing is that I loose all the edit work. Is there finally any way to avoid this? Also the "Aperture" works in slow motion and I cannot quit the application, but only force quit it. I have tried reprocessing and rebuilding many times..