Strange repair library msg popping up after freq. crashes

The error messages you are seeing are very puzzling, chris5s. How come one message is in German and the next in English? It looks like you are having two versions of Aperture installed. This would also explain, the confusion about the Aperture versions.

Looking at the panels - the first panel completely in English, the second a mixture of German and English - that is a clear indication that the repeated crashes have left the Preferences files in a corrupted condition and probably your Aperture library as well.

First search with Spotlight, if there is an older Aperture version lurking somewhere.

Then check, if your Aperture library is showing correctly the version number 3.5.1 by looking at the library with "File > Get Info" in the Finder or look at the preview in column view.

If it is the correct version, make sure, that your backup of the Aperture library is current before you try to repair it.

Then try to run the repair by selecting the library directly, holding down the key combination ⌥⌘ (option-command) and double clicking the library. This should launch Aperture in First Aid mode. Select "Repair Database". Repairing can take a long time for a large database.

If the pidgin language problem persists, quit Aperture and remove the preferences as described here:

Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics

After removing the preferences log off and on again before relaunching Aperture.

-- Léonie

because AFAIK it wouldn't run on Mavericks anyway.

Aperture 3.4.5 is running well in Mavericks; I kept that version in addition to Aperture 3.5.1, because the maps are better in Places View, and just in case I need to revert to the earlier version. The Snowleopard versions 3.1. and 3.2 will not run with Mavericks.

But it is great, that repairing could fix the library.

The language mixup is probably because the "opened with newer library" dialog was never translated, whereas the "reparieren" Button exists in the german version anyway.

I checked that on my system, and indeed, when I tried to repair an Aperture 3.5.1 library using Aperture 3.4.5, I get exactly the pidgin message you have seen: All other error panels were completely in German.

But it was definitely Aperture 3.4.5 giving that message. If you saw Aperture 3.5.1 giving that message when trying to repair an Aperture 3.5.1 library, then there must have been a corruption of the datamodel.plist or another file storing the version number inside your Aperture library, that now has been repaired.

BTW, as soon as I switched to German as primary language and rebooted, Mavericks became rather unresponsive and the fan become very noisy. Do you notice any difference between German and English as System Language?

Hi chris5s,

I've got the same type of problem too. I'm running Aperture 3.5.1 under Maveriks 10.9.2.

This was not the first time that this happened and I think that I found a possible cause for the corruption of the Aperture library.

I found that the Aperture library got damaged while I synced my iPhone 4 with iTunes while Aperture was running.

Repairing the database didn't work each time and I had to replace the damaged Aperture library by a backup copy. I tried to use a Time Machine backup but I got all sorts of errors. I was lucky enough to have a not too old backup on another hard disk.

Thus: try not to forget to close Aperture or iPhoto while you sync your iPhone or iPad !