Q: Aperture is Slow - What do I do?
Almost everything I do in Aperture is slow and it's gotten worse over time. This doesn't happen with other applications it's specific to Aperture.
Clicking the import tab takes several seconds.
Clicking to a project causes a beach ball
My library is huge. 35,000 pictures
The Vault requires 178GB.
I'm running Aperature 3.5.1 on an imac 2011 with 8GB of RAM. Everything is updated.
What should I do to improve performance?
Will breaking down the library in to parts help? How do I do that?
Thank you for your help!
Bob D. in Huntington Beach.
Posted on Feb 23, 2014 9:12 AM
My library is huge. 35,000 pictures
The Vault requires 178GB.
Is your library on an external or the internal drive? How full is the internal drive? Do you have at least 20GB free on your System drive?
Do you use plug-ins? If yes, have you checked, if they are compatible?
When did the slowness start? After updating software or installing new software? After importing new images?
Will breaking down the library in to parts help? How do I do that?
The library size alone cannot cause the slowness, so spliting it will probably not help.
Try to narrow down the problem;
- You may have imported media, that cannot be processed;
- Your library may need fixing,
- your user account may have wrong settings,
- or you may have a system wide problem.
- To check for corrupted media in your Aperture library, launch Aperture, while holding down the Shift key. Is Aperture still slow?
- To check if the library is causing the problem create a small test library - just use the command "File > Switch to Library > Other/new" and create a new library; import a few images and test. Do you see the same slowness?
- If even a new library does not help, repeat the experiment, but while working in a different user account. Is Aperture more responsive, if you are using a different account?
Then post back, with the results of your experiment.
Léonie
Posted on Feb 23, 2014 1:43 PM