upgrading Aperture to 3.6 for Yosemite.

Open the Mac App Store and check the Updates tab. If you don't find it, you can't get it; if desired, click here and contact Apple.

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That does not appear to work any longer due post the 10.10.3 update. Apple's removal of Aperture appears complete in that while it shows up in the "Purchased" tab, "Update" does not work.

Did you ever buy or update Aperture from the App Store? If you never did (if you only ever installed from CDs), then you may have trouble finding it in the App Store. I think there are a few threads in this site which work around that issue.

I was able to download Aperture from the App Store with my 10.10.2 system, but it wouldn't run until I upgraded to 10.10.3. I may suggest cloning your hard drive, then upgrading to Yosemite 10.10.3 and trying Aperture 3.6. If for some reason it doesn't work out for you or you can't get it from the App Store, wipe the drive and restore your Mavericks system from the clone.

But don't rush into it, because downloads from the App Store are still verrrrrry slow. It took me several days on a 50mbps connection to download 10.10.3

It appears that you need to delete Aperture and then re-install it from the App Store, as just selecting "Upgrade" from your "Purchased" tab fails when you upgrade from 10.9.x to 10.10.3.

Thank you!!!

After trying to fix my mum's Mac after upgrading to 10.10.3 from Mavericks, we had a similar problem (upgrade not available from Australian Store). I spent quite a while trawling through complicated and unnecessary suggestions (e.g. running VMWare and temporarily down-grading to 10.10.2 - What the ... ?!?!)

Your suggestion is a tried and tested one that us older Mac users often forget about - keep it simple!

Although I personally feel Apple has (once again) shirted it's long-standing user base (e.g. dumping iPhoto AND Aperture for a glorified iPad app), thankfully they haven't undone their back-end simplicity to get out of a spot of bother.

I just dragged the 3.5.2 version of Aperture to the recycling bin, and Aperture changed from "Update" to "Download" in the App Store.

Again - Thank you!!!

Thanks to F. David Sinn!

App Store refuses to update existing 3.5.x for Yosemite, but once it's gone from Applications folder the App Store certifies authority to "Install" Aperture 3.6. Launching it recovers full use with all iCloud and local disk albums intact.

I believe that discontinuing Aperture wholesale is theft. I bought the entire suite for my photography practice in 2009 and many Nikon add-ons and that was a stretch for me. In December 2014, both my iMac and my Mac Book Pro gave up this life and were running Aperture 3. I install new operating systems and find that my Aperture library might as well be dead and buried for all the help that I get from Apple Pro - They wanted a scanned copy of my receipt for the software before they would send me an upgrade DVD. Can you believe? And then they sent me a version that could never work on either machine. So my current photo 'collection' resides in my iMac 'Trash'.

The Aussie put it well when he said "Apple once again) shirted it's long-standing user base. (dumping iPhoto and Aperture for a glorified iPad app.) He goes on to say that thankfully "they have not done away with their back-end simplicity." However I find as I continue to try and rescue the contents of my hard drive (Seagate Backup failed by the way) from thumb drives and DVDs and camera drives, that the newer versions of Apple seem to be badly tinkered photocopies of the original and all I keep thinking is that the additional software development has been designed to force customers to subscribe to iCloud and new iPhoto. (According to forums, I understand that if you miss payment....)

When I was a little girl two men came into my father's gunshop shop, High Petergate, York, UK and my father pulled a gun on them. They wore long dark overcoats and trilby hats. Afterwards I asked my father why he had done so because he was the most peaceful of men and only sold guns to farmers and the gentry. He said that these two men were Russian KGB and they had come for their protection money.

I believe we owe Apple a bond of trust when we purchase their items, just as they owe us their loyalty and protection from profiteering. I would very much like to get my 15 years worth of photos out of my iMac 'Trash' where they are held for safekeeping and back into an Aperture program (Yosemite) that will accept an old library. I don't have long personally. I have sent the early version of Aperture on this machine to the 'Trash' but it won't be that long before the system becomes overloaded. Can I subsume my grief and anger at the loss and bring myself to find and buy the newer version? Can anyone help? sherburn at g.

That’s the way life was in MacOS 8 --> OS9, “Rhapsody" Days.

Applications you relied on were often strangled, discontinued. Mostly 3rd party.

A scanned copy of a receipt isn’t so terrible to ask. Stores ask for receipts all the time.

You seem to have gotten past that since you said they got you a copy of Aperture.

If its a version you can’t use, please explain why.

What version is it you needed & what version did you get sent?

Huh? You safekeep your files in the TRASH???? That seems ill-advised.

How easy would it be to accidentally flush them?

Hey TheStich,

That’s good detail to know: dragging app to the trash changes the button to DOWNLOAD.

If Apple can’t build & maintain a top notch photo app, then maybe that app needs an end of life.

Better that, than something they can’t keep up to speed.

The last few revs have been very good especially if you had plenty of RAM.

I like it, but used Photoshop for most edits. My test drive of LightRoom was unfulfilling.

We ought to be able to work in Aperture for the foreseeable future.

It doesn’t really make sense though, to have the best looking computers around, if all they run in the future is mediocre software.

Hi CroMagnum

My iMac is running 10.10 and i don' know how to get a copy of Aperture that will sweetly open the old Aperture libraries.

Some people say that you should start at 3.6 keep upgrading, your way to whatever is next. Are they asking to buy me one, again, yet?

The version they sent me of Aperture has just worked on my lap top machine, running 10.6.8. Yeah! (2.1.1)

Gee Apple I

Hi, I've just bought a new macbook pro running yosemite and have been trying to copy across my copy of aperture from old macbook with no joy. I installed many moons ago before it was an app (running 3.6 at present) and there is no longer an option to download aperture from app store - feel stuck at a dead end, any suggestions????

Thanks!

Look at the Purchases tab of the App Store - not the main "Featured" tab. When you sign in with the same appleID you used when you updated to version 3.6, you should be seeing aperture in your Purchases history ready for download, see: Updating to Aperture 3.6 After the Release of Photos

Hi, I've just bought a new macbook pro running yosemite and have been trying to copy across my copy of aperture from old macbook with no joy.

How did you setup the new Mac? If you used Migration assistant to copy all your applications from the previous Mac to the new Mac, aperture 3.6 should work on the new Mac. Have you tried to copy the application directly between the two Macs?

Thanks Léonie, you're right it is there under purchases, however it says OPEN not download and when I click on it nothing happens.....

and does Aperture run, when you click "Open"?

If it says "Open" you have somewhere a copy of Aperture on your Mac - perhaps on a connected backup drive. Dismount any external disks, then search with Spotlight for Aperture and move all older copies you can find to the Trash. Then restart the App Store and the button should change to Install".

You absolute legend, I was being a numptee - still had the hard drive plugged in that I had tried to install old version from, as soon as I removed it and refreshed the option changed to Install and it is now happily downloading so fingers crossed and thank you thank you thank you!!!