It seems that with the purchase of a new iMac I have to upgrade to Aperture 3.6.
I am using Aperture since the early days and so it was not purchased in the App Store but on a REAL CD.
Any ideas where I can find that update ?
Suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks.
Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.7.5), imac 24 - mid 2007
Which version of Aperture 3 are you currently using? If you ever updated beyond Aperture 3.4.5, Aperture 3 should be showing in your Purchases history and be associated with your AppleID. Sign into the App Store and check your Purchases History in the fourth tab.
Does Aperture show on the Purchases tab? Then you should be able to update by reinstalling from your Purchases history.See: Updating to Aperture 3.6 After the Release of Photos
If Aperture is not in your Purchases History, you need the help of Apple Support. If you just bought a new iMac, they should help you to update the software for this new Mac.
Apple Support is not always helping - they want us to migrate to Photos or another professional application, but here is a happy user who got help from Apple Support to update to version 3.6:
Thanks a lot, Léonie. I was counting on your help with this issue. 😀
My version is 3.4.5 and it does not appear in the purchase history, as it was bought HARDWARE, as mentioned.
The whole Aperture issue is making me mad.
So it is either drop dead with my recent iMac or buy a new one an rely on some uncertain help. Or lose sorting and edit of 35000 photos.
Oh dear.
Thanks a lot anyway.
As you did not yet buy the iMac, make it a condition for the purchase, that the Store will install the Aperture 3.6 update for you, before you buy the mac.
It has been ordered already :-( It probably has to go to ebay now.
I have been working with Macintosh computers for more than 25 years.
This Aperture issue is the most embarrassing thing that they ever did to me.
How can they imagine that anyone is prepared to reorganize his photo library from like the past 10 years. Or giving up on his favorite tools and filters.
Not your fault, of course. Just being very desperate.
Ulrich
All from Aperture :-( http://eintoern.deviantart.com/gallery/
Even though my experience with Aperture doesn't come close to Leonie's, I do want to point out that you can do more and more things with Photos as the months pass. Perhaps there already exist Extension that fullfill your needs: Edit your photos using third-party extensions in Photos for OS X - Apple Support
Thanks ! And who can compare to Leonie when it comes to this ;-)
There is workflow which has been established over a couple of years. And it is ridiculous and embarrassing - imho - that I should give up on that just because they do not allow me to update - 😠And I am really scared that I shall lose my work from the recent years.
You don't have to give up on Aperture just yet, it still works in El Capitan. Though there will be a time in the future where you undoubtedly will have to say goodbye, that time is not yet here.
There used to be a trick in Mavericks where, if your computer was using the English language and you put an Aperture.app in your Applications folder (no matter what version, so you could just drag & drop an ancient Aperture.app from a Time Machine back-up or copy it over from another computer using a USB-stick), restart your Mac, wait appr. 24hours and check for updates, it would update you to the latest Aperture for free. Maybe that still works or maybe Leonie can tell you otherwise.
This is very kind of you.
But to be honest I just want to work with my photographs and edit them as I used to do in the past couple of years. And not doing any tricks and copying and such and such. Just want a site were I can download the 3.6 update.
This attitude from the company is most embarrassing (sorry if I repeat myself here).
My computer is using the German language, by the way. Aperture is using the English language for convenience.
And it is ridiculous and embarrassing - imho - that I should give up on that just because they do not allow me to update - And I am really scared that I shall lose my work from the recent years.
You purchased a professional application and are entitled to the compatibility update Aperture 3.6 for the current system on your new Mac.
And with your new Mac you will have have free Apple Support a a limited time. I#d use that to get all the help you can get.
I just tested and installed Aperture 3.4.5 on my El Capitan system.
if all fails you can get it to run on El Capitan, but it has many issues.
Ctrl-click the Aperture application icon, select Show Package Contents, and then launch the executable inside directly.
It will open and you can edit, but it would be much preferable to get the compatibility update installed.
There is no Apple supplied download for Aperture 3.6 other than the AppStore.
Many thanks, Leonie - wizard of Aperture and great supporter.
So there are several workarounds, it seems. 10.9 has a few issues, so I have heard, too.
It is just disrespectful by the company to destroy peoples hard work here and make them research for those workarounds.
I am REALLY ****** here. 😊
To be honest, right now I think that I shall stick to my old computer as long as the two of us shall live. And cancel my order for the new one.
I want to work and not spend my time to do weird things. If so, I could have used DOS and WINDOWS.
You're welcome 🙂
Bist su Segler? Dein Forumname klingt so. Ich wünsche Dir Mast-und Schotbruch und immer eine Handbreit Wasser unter dem Kiel!
restart your Mac, wait appr. 24hours and check for updates, it would update you to the latest Aperture for free.
Updating Aperture (or iPhoto9 does not work any longer at all, since Apple pulled Aperture from the App Store, CellarDwellr. We can only update by reinstalling App Store versions of Aperture we own. That is horrible for all users, who need a stable and reliable system because of they need it for a business and cannot jump on the bandwagon for each and every new update as soon as has been released. There has been only a small window of opportunity, where the Aperture 36 update has been offered as an update. Anybody who has not been running MacOS X 10.10 Yosemite has been left out and missed this. And anybody running Aperture 3.4.5 should have updated to Aperture 3.5.1 with the release of MacOS X 10.19 Mavericks. Tat was the window of opportunity to change an Aperture license with a serial number to an AppStore license. But that also was available for users running the latest system. This is really difficult, if it is not possible to risk updating to newest system immediately.
I've been lucky, because I can afford to have one of my Macs always running he newest system and the newest versions of the applications I use, sine I have one Mac for pleasure and one for work.
Das hatten wir schon einmal vor ein paar Jahren :-)
Sehr gerne bin ich viel auf dem Wasser gewesen, jetzt fühle ich mich zu alt dafür ...
Doch nun werde ich erst einmal die Bestellung für den neuen Rechner stornieren, mal sehen wer es länger macht. Mein treuer Mac, oder ich.
Die Fotos sind mein Leben, den Verlust würde ich nicht ertragen.
Und noch einmal herzlichen Dank für Dein Engagement in dieser Angelegenheit.
Mast und Schotbruch !
Tolle Sache ! Ob hier vielleicht eine Schadenersatzforderung angemessen ist ? Es geht ja um meine Zeit und mein Geld.
Sehr geehrter Herr Bednarz,
mein Name ist Sascha Heyder vom Apple Online Store.
Vielen Dank dass Sie sich mit Ihrer E-Mail an den Apple Online Store Kundendienst gewendet haben.
Leider kann ich Ihnen bei der Anfrage nicht helfen, da wir hier keine keine Möglichkeit haben Anfragen zu bearbeiten, noch einzusehen, die den Mac App Store betreffen, ich fürchte allerdings, dass die Chancen eher schlecht stehen Aperture noch zu erhalten.
Using Aperture with 10.10
