Aperture tabs horizontal/vertical

I noticed that the two tabs (browsers) where displayed on-top of each other (horizontal) whereas they used to show up side-to-side (vertical). Any idea how I can change this behaviour?

Experiment with the "View" menu:

View > Browser > Rotate Position

Use the "List" View and change the Metadata preset for List View to show the EXIF you want.

It should work in Split-View or list view. Have you tried "Rotate Position" (shortcut ⇧W) several times in sequence? For me, this will toggle between different modes. And you can move the Viewer around with ⌥W.

I am using Aperture 3.5.1 with MacOS X 10.9.4. on a MacBook Pro. And your versions? Do you have a second monitor connected?

Opening exactly the same library by a different user, and the panels are oriented vertical as I want them to be. I tried moving ~/Library/Preferences/com.Apple.Aperture.plist to the trash to no avail.

Just to be sure - have you restarted the Mac directly after removing the "Aperture.plist" file? Otherwise, the deletion may not take in Mavericks because of the process model.

If you are about to start deleting preferences and caches, try to remove the sandbox as well.

Delete the complete folder ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Aperture/

Ir. Bob wrote:

I have a feeling this is hardcoded.

Jumping in — but don't let the commotion indicate that I have anything useful to add. I had the same problem this last week. I was not able to resolve it, and instead made a note to examine it later and didn't use multiple Browsers. Then yesterday I noticed that the problem is gone. I cannot recreate the vertically-stacked Browsers, and so can't offer any solutions.

I do use multiple monitors. Your suggestion, elsewhere in this thread, that that might have left something in the system is the first thing I would try to fix. Close all programs, disconnect all peripherals, and shut down your computer. Uncheck "Reopen Windows when logging on". After your computer has been dead to the world for a minute, restart it. Open Aperture, and see if this has set the multiple Browsers to be arranged horizontally.

The next step is dark Voodoo. Just let Aperture run unmolested for a few hours. Afaict, Aperture keeps a list of maintenance tasks that it gets to when you're not asking it to do anything else.

And lastly — an old trick : reset your NVRAM.

Let us know if anything helps.

—Kirby.

Glad, you got it working again.

It seems inedded that sandboxing makes deleting pref files a bit hard so in the end i resorted to the terminal:

"defaults delete com.apple.Aperture.plist" followed by a reboot did the trick.

it is not only the sandboxing, that is making deleting preference files tricky, but the new process model with "automatic termination" introduced with MacOS X 10.7. (http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/8/) Applications may not really quit, when you quit them, but remain in the cache, ready to run again. Mavericks is hiding the difference between running applications and quit applications. The only way to ensure, that the preferences files will not be simply rewritten with the cached values, is restarting the Mac.

You're welcome 🙂