Q: Can't sync or share photos due to corrupted ApertureData.xml
I have a large Aperture library, of which I sync a few albums to my iOS devices and do Home Photo Sharing to AppleTV using iTunes 11.4.
Recently this stopped working, because the list of Aperture albums in iTunes has become corrupted:
It seems like the data shared to iTunes with ApertureData.xml has become corrupted some how. The nesting of the list of albums is messed up. Rather than being a long list of albums, the list is now nesting them inside the previous, causing the list to scroll off the end of the scroll box, so I cannot select the albums I want.
Any ideas how to fix this? Is it Aperture's fault or iTunes?
Thanks!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Aperture 3.5.1
Posted on Oct 2, 2014 2:32 PM
You could try to disable the preference setting "Share XML with other applications" in the Aperture Preferences >Preview panel. You do not need this for sharing with Apple apps like iWork or iTunes. That should remove the corrupted xml from the library.
See this link:
If that does not help, back up your Aperture library and rebuild it to recreate the database files inside. That may take a long time for a large library, however.
Posted on Oct 3, 2014 5:00 AM
