aperture performance sluggish in list view under OSX 10.11.1

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aperture performance sluggish in list view under OSX 10.11.1

I spend a lot of time in Aperture in list view sorting my thousands of photos based on metadata. I recently upgraded from Mavericks to El Capitan and installed the required updates to Aperture.

I could swear that since installing the OS X and Aperture upgrades the performance of Aperture has slowed down significantly when I am looking at my library contents in list view using the browser even though it is quite snappy when showing the photo previews in the browser.

It seems to me that something fundamental has changed in the way Aperture interrogates its database and then generates the list view of the metadata under El Capitan. I have repaired and then rebuilt the database (only 1380 photos in the library I'm currently working on) and this helped a little. Using Quick Preview mode seemed to help a little more. But I suspect there is something fundamentally different (and probably easy to fix) about how a list view from a database is generated under OS X 10.11.1.

For example, in an album with 200 photos, the list view comes up quickly with version names but then redraws itself nearly line by line when populating the other metadata columns.

Any suggestions to improve this performance issue would be greatly appreciated.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), 2.5GHz i7, 16GB

Posted on Nov 18, 2015 4:28 PM

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Answer 1

léonie

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Nov 19, 2015 2:11 AM in response to Bradford Sherman

I am using primarily smart albums, and they are needing a few seconds to fill the columns in list view.

The library I am currently testing with has 40000 photos.

The most irritating problem with list view is that the thumbnails are all upside down.

The thumbnails and the version name will appear immediately, and the other columns will need some time to fill with data.

When in list view I am seeing diagnostic messages in the Console window like this:

19/11/15 11:03:17,000 kernel[0]: process Aperture[6361] thread 189950 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 70%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 90.355811 seconds, (67.926142 user, 22.429669 system) ledger info: balance: 90243344019 credit: 90248002805 debit: 4658786 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 128452275974

or

19/11/15 11:03:18,223 spindump[788]: Saved cpu_resource.diag report for Aperture version 3.6 (3.6) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Aperture_2015-11-19-110318_Luna-kogsmac19.cpu_r esource.diag

So Aperture is using an uncommon amount of CPU while in list view.

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Answer 2

Eric To

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Nov 21, 2015 12:04 AM in response to léonie

I have the similar view problem. When I double clicked my preview, which looked alright, the viewer of the image was terrrible, getting fainted coloured photos!

I have 27" 5K iMac running El Capitan.

Eric

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Answer 3

léonie

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194,755 points

Nov 21, 2015 12:12 AM in response to Eric To

If you are seeing faint colors, in the viewer, check if "Onscreen proofing" is enabled in the View menu. With "Onscreen proofing" on the colors may appear wrong. Have a look at the proofing profile, that has been selected.

Another reason for changed colors could be a changed RAW processing. Did the most recent update you installed include new RAW support for your camera? Then try to reprocess the RAW.

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Answer 4

Eric To

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Nov 21, 2015 12:16 AM in response to Eric To

Here is the sample of the image. On the upper left corner is opened using Preview software of the raw image; the upper right corner is opened inside Aperture; the middle lower one is opened using Preview software of the jpeg image.