nik plugins suddenly causing aperture to crash

I have been having much the same problem, only with HDR Pro 2. In that case, even when it does not cause Aperture to crash, the completed image will not reimport back into Aperture.

MacBook Pro 17", Yosemite 10.10.4, Aperture 3.6

And no, I haven't found a fix.

No joy here. Although the ap has updated to 2.2.24, this did not fix the problem. The ap indicates it is saving, as usual but the image does not show up in Aperture, nor anywhere else that I can find.

Hey Ron! I'm having the exact same problem with HDR Efex! We run all of the Nik plug ins on 2 diff iMacs and one system stopped saving back to Aperture 5 days ago and now our 2nd iMac is doing the same as of yesterday. All other plug ins are working fine! I have a support request in with Nik and will be sure to let you all know if they come up with a solution! Very frustrating as I have jobs to get out that I can't complete.

I'm having this exact problem on my iMac running on a version of 10.9, only started happening recently. The completed image will not reimport back into Aperture, and I can't find a saved HDR file anywhere.

Same issues here. NIK suite and Aperture 3.6 were flawless for me until roughly a month ago. Running OS 10.10.4. Was very happy with this setup and was hoping to avoid jumping the Aperture ship for awhile longer. Anyone have any fixes?

Here's a workaround! Open your images in HDR Efex as you normally would. Click on the settings button and then under the stacking preferences deselect the reimport into aperture setting. This will save the HDR file to another location you select. You can then reimport your image back into Aperture. It's a pain in the butt but it works. Nik support give me this solution and they are currently working to solve the problem!

Thanks for the heads up on the workaround, gmoney1313. Anyone have any updates from NIK on a fix for this yet?

Yes I too have problems with just HDR Efex Pro 2. I have the latest version on Aperture 3.6. Seems like this has been an ongoing dog's breakfast for some time with all manner of cobbled work-arounds and so called fixes from disabling the GPU to saving the files manually and re-importing. All very reminiscent of the Windows environment Apple is supposed to let you leave behind. Google / Nik blame Apple, Apple blames Google / Nik. Whatever it is the problems still haven't been fixed in 2-3 years and we are essentially cobbling together fixes for what was, at the time, premium price software from Google / Nik that simply isn't working. If it drags on much longer I'll be asking for a refund.

For those looking, at least on my MBP I've tracked where HDR Pro is saving the files. It's MBP HDD>private>var>folders>0g>ljmn60545 blah blah blah (really long name!!!)>T>com.apple.Aperture

What I've yet to do is try to get to that folder to delete the tiffs that are there but that I can't see in Aperture.

Complete mess really. Other suggestions Google have made to others include re-installing OS X (like THAT'S gonna happen!!), creating a new user account, deleting duplicate fonts! and reinstalling Nik software (as allegedly problems can arise when insulation over old versions. But mine is a fresh install on a new machine.

Truth is with the demise of Aperture (and who knows how much longer is will work with OS X updates) and the dead in the water state of affairs with Nik Software since Google took it over (saw that one coming!) I'm tempted to give up wasting further time on it, move to Capture One Pro then delete and bin Aperture and Nik and write off the loss. One thing for sure I'll NEVER by any Apple software again, even if they should decide to venture once again into the pro market. Even their own Pages and Numbers, second rate alternatives to Word and Excel at their best, have now been dumbed down so much to be IOS friendly that they're basically not worth the disc space even for free.