Why is aperture crashing on my brand new 27" iMac ?

I'm sorry to tell you that repairing the library did not help. What usually helps is working on some images, then quitting and restarting aperture.

I am seeing the exact same crash on a brand new Retina Macbook Pro (10.9.1, Aperture 3.5.1)

Problem occurs if I try to use the loupe:

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: EXC_I386_GPFLT

Application Specific Information:

objc_msgSend() selector name: isKindOfClass:

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff83ad9097 objc_msgSend + 23

1 com.apple.CoreImage 0x00007fff8382e6e1 -[CIFilter setValue:forKey:] + 76

2 com.apple.Aperture 0x000000010c894400 0x10c69b000 + 2069504

3 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8ba69399 -[NSView _drawRect:clip:] + 3748

4 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8ba67c0e -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 1799

5 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8ba67fea -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787

Sorry to hear that, although I am glad that apparently not only iMacs seem to be affected. This should keep the pressure on Apple to get this fixed.

I'm hoping 10.9.2 will be the cure...

Chris

It seems that 10.9.2 fixed this bug. I haven't seen a crash in AP after installing the update yesterday and mem usage in Activity Monitor suggests that Aperture (or the graphics driver) no longer exhibit a memory leak.

Chris

I have read this thread.

The program Aperture is where the problem lies. It has a bug. There may be some issues with 10.0.2 also but Aperture 3.5.1 is still not fixed. I think the Aperture logs are recording everything you do when processing a picture. This is causing a memory overload. What is happening for me is that the free memory is slowly being depleted until the lack of free memory causes a crash or the "wheel of death".

My system

Mac Pro - 6-core Intel Processor 3.33 GHz

OS - 10.9.2

Memory - 20 GB

Hard Drive - 500 GB SSD

Graphics Card - ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB

Ever since I upgraded Aperture shortly after installing Mavericks - I have had a memory problem with Aperture. I use Aperture professionally and process raw images. I CAN'T go through a learning curve on a new program.

Here is how I have adjusted to the problem of memory overload or memory pressure to avoid crashes. Hopefully, Apple will fix the problem for all of us.

1. Utilize 3 different apps to stay on top of the system eating memory. Keep Activity Monitor open in background

2. Free App in Mac App store - called Free Memory - You set it up in activity bar and monitor your memory usage. Set up an alarm to free the memory. I use 1 Gig left as an alarm

3. I upgraded the free app for $1.99. It is called Memory Diag.app - It also frees the memory. As the memory gets critical I click on the app and it works to free memory.

4. As I work on a particular picture and apply different brushes such as Burn Effect - I sometimes just close down Aperture and re-open it. Apparently this eliminates the log and the memory pressure goes back to normal. According to the IT person I use, this indicates that the problem is with Aperture and not the operating system.

5. One more area that I checked out from previous threads. For some reason, if you start Quicktime and start a full screen recording, the memory does not deplete as quickly. It worked for me - until it didn't! By that I mean, I left it running too long and the computer crashed. It only works for short periods of time. I would only do a screen recording for less that 5 minutes.

If it is the OS then the memory pressure woiuld not change if you quit Aperture until you shut down the computer and restart it.

Hope this helps keep you from going down the wrong rabbit hole on this problem.

Nothing seems to fix it. Reinstalling the Mavericks and Aperture will not help. The problem will come back. Aperture needs the correct update to fix this problem. Generally, new computers with factory installed OS will work fine with all programs that have not gone through updates and were designed for that operating system. This seems to be a redesign problem with the updated Aperture.

I'm having the same problem as well on a fully loaded iMac 27". Mine is even worse however as all my user files are on a a drobo. So each time, I have to do a time machine restore to get the computer to remember where all my user files are. I called apple and they just did a repair permissions and that hasn't made any difference. Looking forward to a permanent fix.