Aperture frozen on "loading assets"

I had the same problem after upgrading to Yosemite and Aperture 3.6. Restarted Aperture multiple times, rebooted, repaired permissions, nothing worked.

Someone on another thread posted: Empty Trash. So I quit Aperture, emptied the trash, restarted Aperture... and my import worked 🙂

I hope it will work for you too!

How much free disk space do you have on the drive with your Aperture library? Where is the library stored?

Test, if you can import into a new, empty Aperture library. If a new Aperture library will work, troubleshoot your current library using the library first aid tools and repair the database, and if that does not help, back up the library and rebuild it.

To repair or rebuild the Aperture library:

• Select your Aperture library in the Finder.
• Hold down the option-command-keys ⌥⌘ simultaneously, double-click the library to open in Aperture,
• Hold down the keys, until the First-Aid panel opens.
• Select "Repair database". This may take a while for a large library.
• If it does not help, backup the library and try "Rebuild Library"

I found I need to copy the photos to a folder on my Desktop - drag and drop the DCIM folder - and then import successfully.

Total pain in the butt.

After working perfectly for so many years, I believe Apple is deliberately sabotaging Aperture and making it slow and buggy since they announced they are going to discontinue Aperture and iPhone.

I have the same or at least a related problem. Using OS X Yosemite 10.10 and Aperture 3.6 I am unable to import any pictures from the compact flash card of my Canon EOS 300D (also known as Digital Rebel). Aperture says it is Loading assets for Import View, endlessly without any progress (Status remains 0).

I've gone through all of the Aperture 3: Troubleshooting basics - Apple Support except for reinstalling Aperture. Image Capture cannot import the pictures (or even make an overview of the pictures) either.

Others appear to have the same problem:

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Re: importing problem

tried everything. when the **** is Apple going to fix this lousy bug. Need a working solution now not whenever Photo appears next year. Nothing working and even image capture will not load properly now! Apple is fast losing loyalty through this and similar issues...

H*e*l*l is starred out by this program. ***!!!....makes me look like i was saying f*u*c*k !!

This worked for me too but REALLY!

Me too.

My conspiracy theory mind thinks that have they introduced a silly bug with a work around (copying it onto the hard drive) to put us off Aperture so we transition to the new Photos app willingly!

Common Apple. If you want to drop support for Aperture then it is your right to do it but please don't make it worse before you go! Can we have a patch please.

I've got the same problem and I've done a fair bit of testing, without any real solution.

I've repaired the database, and that made no difference. I've started with a blank photo.library and that made no difference.

One of the tests is this:

Insert an SD card or camera (via USB), then Aperture 3.6 (A3.6) starts up itself, and the import routine starts. It says "Loading Assets". If you click on the swirling circular icon, a window pops up with the Activity. You can compare the progress of file importing in this Activity window with the number of Imported files notified at the bottom right of A3.6, which also says number of files imported.

It should go through the SD card and complete the task and the activity ends.

However, instead, randomly, it often gets stuck, part way.

When I eject the SD card in Finder and reassert it, the routine starts up again.

I've done this repeatedly, with my Photo.Library and a blank database/library. I've used two SD cards, on 1Gb the other 2Gb.

I've tried it with A3.6 running and I've tried it by closing A3.6 each time and starting the program fresh.

Each time I get random results. It starts the import and freezes after a random number of photos. Sometimes, it stops after just 6 photos, sometime its stops after 156. Occasionally, it completes the task and does all photos (on these SD cards that's about 220 or 415 photos).

There seems to be no rhyme or reason.

In 10 recorded tests (out of many unrecorded), it completed as follows:

1) 155 photos imported

2) 176

3) 136

4) 156

5) All 415 photos, task completed

6) 256

7) All photos, task completed

8) All photos, task completed

9) 6 photos

10) All photos, task completed

APPLE - PLEASE RESPOND. YOUR REPUTATION IS AT RISK AND USERS ARE LOOKING TO DUMP APERTURE. Some on this forum think you are ignoring this problem, or even creating the problem, deliberately.

PLEASE RESPOND....

I have also seen this 'loading assets' delay with the current version of Aperture and the current Yosemite OSX. But I only see this problem randomly when importing photos from iOS 8.1.2 devices. I have never seen this problem when importing directly into Aperture 3.6 from any of my Nikon DSLR bodies.
My workaround for the iOS photo imports 'loading assets' interminable delay is instead to import photos into the current companion version of iPhoto instead of Aperture. For some reason this works, and since I have Aperture and iPhoto sharing the same library, it is no problem. Good luck.

Over 700 views to date! This isn't freeware!

I worked around this by deleting already imported images from the camera before inserting the memory card into the card reader.

For me it seems like the problem is related to not importing duplicated images. As long as there are none on the memory card everything is fine.