I had a problem with Aperture 3.6; opened a new Library from the Vault, now cannot open Aperture Preferences. When I attempt to open preferences I get a very thin vertical line about 1 ½ inches long?? Any fixes for this/ Thanks, Vic
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Try to delete the Aperture preferences as described here at this link:
Get help with Aperture 3 - Apple Support
Steps to reset preference settings
To reset your Aperture user preference settings to their original state, do the following:
- Quit Aperture.
- In the Finder choose "Go to folder" from the Go menu.
- Type ~/Library/Preferences in the "Go to the folder" field. Press the Go button.
- Remove the "com.apple.Aperture.plist" file from the Preferences folder.
- Restart your computer if you're using OS X Mavericks.
The locations of your Aperture libraries are stored in the preference file listed above. If you have stored your library outside the default location of ~/Pictures/Aperture Library, make a note of where the library is before deleting the Aperture preferences file. If you have more than one library, you can bring up a dialog to choose which one to load by pressing Option immediately after you open Aperture.
Try to delete the Aperture preferences as described here at this link:
Get help with Aperture 3 - Apple Support
Steps to reset preference settings
To reset your Aperture user preference settings to their original state, do the following:
- Quit Aperture.
- In the Finder choose "Go to folder" from the Go menu.
- Type ~/Library/Preferences in the "Go to the folder" field. Press the Go button.
- Remove the "com.apple.Aperture.plist" file from the Preferences folder.
- Restart your computer if you're using OS X Mavericks.
The locations of your Aperture libraries are stored in the preference file listed above. If you have stored your library outside the default location of ~/Pictures/Aperture Library, make a note of where the library is before deleting the Aperture preferences file. If you have more than one library, you can bring up a dialog to choose which one to load by pressing Option immediately after you open Aperture.
Léonie, you have done it again! Thank you very much, that was easy.
On a related question, are you very concerned now that Apple has stopped supporting Aperture? Are you looking for or have found a similar application, if so, what is it? For me Aperture is perfect and I am concerned about it not being supported any more (except for the support that I get from people like you in this Aperture Support Forum!) Thanks again, Victor
You're welcome. 🙂
Aperture will no longer be developed, and that make me sad. Aperture is perfect for my workflow, and has exactly the tools I need, with a very versatile user interface. Apple is abandoning the best professional photo software ever.
Apple announced, that Aperture will be supported during the life cycle of Yosemite. I will continue to use Aperture as my main photo library and editor, as long as I can stay with Yosemite. I am creating a smaller Aperture library for sharing with iCloud, that I will migrate to Photos; it will just contain a small subset of my photos, that I want to have on all devices.
If Photos does not develop into something useful for my needs during the next few years, I'll migrate my main libraries to digikam; it is free, compatible with Linux systems, and has many advanced tools. Our students prefer open source software anyway, so I can use it at ork as well.
But if you want a professional substitute for Aperture, look at Capture One or Lightroom. There are quite a few discussions here on the merits of these alternatives.
Problem with Aperture 3.6 Can't open Preferences
