Organic Green Apples
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Q: open apperture/see my pictures

This is the first time I ever used this support.  It took me a long time to write this.  I use Aperture and cannot open it or see my pictures. I called Apple International and the machine said to call back. I called back a few times and they said it each time. Please help.

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), do not know what to write

Posted on Mar 25, 2016 11:22 AM

by léonie,Solvedanswer
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A:
  I cancel not knowing why I have to import the Aperture library.

On no account import an Aperture library.  You need to open your library in Aperture, not merge it into your current library, only as the last, desperate measure.

 

Does the menu command "File > Switch to Library" in Aperture not let you switch to a different library?

 

Is your Aperture Library on an external drive or on your System drive?

 

I do not use Lightroom, so I have no idea what the migration to lightroom  may have done to your Aperture Library.

If lightroom change permissions or ownerships you may need to repair your Aperture Library.

 

See this Manual page:  Aperture 3 User Manual: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library

Posted on Mar 26, 2016 2:48 PM

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Q: open apperture/see my pictures

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  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Mar 25, 2016 6:02 PM in response to Organic Green Apples
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    Mar 25, 2016 6:02 PM in response to Organic Green Apples

    Tell us more, please. 

     

    Which version of Aperture do you have? With OS X El Capitan (10.11.3) you need Aperture 3.6.  Is that the version you are running?

    What exactly happens, when you try to open Aperture?  Does it crash? Do you get an error message?  does it not find your Aperture Library?

  • by Organic Green Apples,

    Organic Green Apples Organic Green Apples Mar 25, 2016 7:00 PM in response to léonie
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    Mar 25, 2016 7:00 PM in response to léonie

    This is about the 4th time I am trying to write a reply! I write and lose it. I do NOT know how to find or know if I am using Aperture 3.6.

    What happens is I see no pictures at all where they usually are, just a black area and no pictures. I do see a side gray bar on the left with the words projects and others.  I do not DARE try to copy those words again in fear of losing this reply once again and starting over.  What I DO NOT see is the many many folders I have made over the 4 years since I bought my Mac, gone to One to One and Open Lessons, for hours, days, gone through many fine teachers and learned what I needed to know. I love the personal help. I get no error messages when I try to open Aperture.  All my pictures are stored in a Lacie External Hard Drive due to advice from a creative years ago.  I have many pictures.  I love my system and have panicked because Apple does not support Aperture anymore.  I clicked on "correct answer" and it is more like This helped me.  Thank you.  But I still have no clue how to see my pictures. I did try to include a screen shot in here of what appears and the screen shot kept disappearing.

  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Mar 26, 2016 7:14 AM in response to Organic Green Apples
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    Mar 26, 2016 7:14 AM in response to Organic Green Apples

    To find out the version of Aperture you are using, click the Aperture menu in the main menu bar. Then use the menu entry "About Aperture".

    Screen Shot 2016-03-25 at 23.47.39GMT.png

     

    If your screenshot keeps disappearing the file size may be to large or the filename may contain a "+" sign. reduce the file size or edit the filename and remove any "+" before posting.

    I do see a side gray bar on the left with the words projects and others.

    Are you seeing projects, when you click the word "Projects" in the sidebar?

    If not, Aperture may have opened a different library.

     

    Select your Aperture library on the Lacy drive and double click it to open in Aperture.

     

    If you are again seen an empty library, check the search fields, if they are cleared.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-03-25 at 23.57.00GMT.png

  • by Organic Green Apples,

    Organic Green Apples Organic Green Apples Mar 26, 2016 7:40 AM in response to léonie
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    Mar 26, 2016 7:40 AM in response to léonie

    I AM using 3.6 version of Aperture.

     

    No projects are seen when projects is clicked.

     

    I get a message that asks me "do I want to import the Aperture Library,  or I can cancel.  I cancel not knowing why I have to import the Aperture library.  It may be because I am paying $10 a month for 4 or 5 months now to Lightroom and not knowing what will happen when I try to switch to Lightroom. About two weeks ago I called Lightroom to cancel until I have time to do it.  They ended up helping me import. all pictures in Aperture, to Lightroom.  It took entire night. I think my thousands of pictures went into Lightroom and I have not had time to do any more than that.  He told me pictures are still IN Aperture and copies are in Lightroom.

     

    At one to one at Apple I was advised to use Lightroom and joined and then did nothing with it and am paying.  I love the system I have made in Aperture and do not know what will happen in Lightroom.  Thus two picture programs and not basic knowledge to operate either one. and I only want to use Aperture.

     

    Did not go further on your directions but did try last suggestion, clicked on adjustments and got add adjustments or effects for only choice.  Stuck again.  Thank you,,

  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Mar 26, 2016 2:48 PM in response to Organic Green Apples
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    Mar 26, 2016 2:48 PM in response to Organic Green Apples
      I cancel not knowing why I have to import the Aperture library.

    On no account import an Aperture library.  You need to open your library in Aperture, not merge it into your current library, only as the last, desperate measure.

     

    Does the menu command "File > Switch to Library" in Aperture not let you switch to a different library?

     

    Is your Aperture Library on an external drive or on your System drive?

     

    I do not use Lightroom, so I have no idea what the migration to lightroom  may have done to your Aperture Library.

    If lightroom change permissions or ownerships you may need to repair your Aperture Library.

     

    See this Manual page:  Aperture 3 User Manual: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library

  • by Organic Green Apples,

    Organic Green Apples Organic Green Apples Mar 28, 2016 4:47 AM in response to léonie
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    Mar 28, 2016 4:47 AM in response to léonie

    leonie said:  On no account import an Aperture library.  You need to open your library in Aperture, not merge it into your current library, only as the last, desperate  measure.

     

    Mary did NOT merge  or take any desperate measures.  I do not touch to Lightroom library.  I do not use it.  I do not know how or have time to learn it now.

    I only want to open Aperture but see NO pictures in Aperture, just these words on a left sidebar

           "LIBRARY: Projects,Photos, Places.

    Under Places I see the word     

           'RECENT'   with words

            Last 12 Months

            and four other word categories and also an ending word of

             Trash, a total of 5 categories under RECENT


    leonie asked:

    Does the menu command "File > Switch to Library" in Aperture not let you switch to a different library?

    mary' answer: NO

     

     

    leonie asked

    Is your Aperture Library on an external drive or on your System drive?

    mary's answer: External Lacy Drive.

     

     

    leonie stated:

    I do not use Lightroom, so I have no idea what the migration to lightroom  may have done to your Aperture Library.

    If lightroom change permissions or ownerships you may need to repair your Aperture Library.

    mary's response:

    I have never used lightroom either but the Apple Creative suggested it because Apple no longer supports Aperture but does something new with I think it is iPhoto and stores all the pictures on it.  I take pictures with my iPhone and add those pictures to Aperture Folders and Projects and make my OWN categories.  It is all I have ever done.  I have over forty thousand pictures and do not understand the organization of iPhoto. I do not know what to do.  And all I want to do is use Aperture.

    I spoke to a Lightroom person who helped me (I think he said import or maybe I am not saying the right word) my Aperture library into Lightroom and he said the Aperture Library would stay as it is and the SAME pictures in Lightroom, are simply Copies of exactly what is in Aperture Library everything STAYS the SAME.  I have all the picture copies in Lightroom and the original pics IN Aperture.

    Aperture HAS repaired my Aperture Library several times in the past.  It somehow comes up and each time I panic, don't know what is happening, but somehow it does it with me doing some steps and all goes back to using it smoothly.  But this time I cannot even find or open the Aperture Library.  I am totally lost! I do not know is lightroom changed permissions or ownerships and have no clue how I get to repair my Aperture Library .

     

    Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library

    In the rare event that your Aperture database becomes corrupted or the files within it have permissions issues, Aperture provides a few methods for reconstituting your Aperture library and the file relationships within it.

     


    Leonie wrote

































































    ;
    To repair or rebuild your Aperture library 
    Close Aperture, if it’s open.

  • by Organic Green Apples,

    Organic Green Apples Organic Green Apples Mar 28, 2016 5:17 AM in response to léonie
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    Mar 28, 2016 5:17 AM in response to léonie

    desperate  measure.

     

    Mary did NOT merge  or take any desperate measures.  I do not touch to Lightroom library.  I do not use it.  I do not know how or have time to learn it now.

    I only want to open Aperture but see NO pictures in Aperture, just these words on a left sidebar

           "LIBRARY: Projects,Photos, Places.

    Under Places I see the word     

           'RECENT'   with words

            Last 12 Months

            and four other word categories and also an ending word of

             Trash, a total of 5 categories under RECENT


    leonie asked:

    Does the menu command "File > Switch to Library" in Aperture not let you switch to a different library?

    mary' answer: NO

     

     

    leonie asked

    Is your Aperture Library on an external drive or on your System drive?

    mary's answer: External Lacy Drive.

     

     

    leonie stated:

    I do not use Lightroom, so I have no idea what the migration to lightroom  may have done to your Aperture Library.

    If lightroom change permissions or ownerships you may need to repair your Aperture Library.

    mary's response:

    I have never used lightroom either but the Apple Creative suggested it because Apple no longer supports Aperture but does something new with I think it is iPhoto and stores all the pictures on it.  I take pictures with my iPhone and add those pictures to Aperture Folders and Projects and make my OWN categories.  It is all I have ever done.  I have over forty thousand pictures and do not understand the organization of iPhoto. I do not know what to do.  And all I want to do is use Aperture.

    I spoke to a Lightroom person who helped me (I think he said import or maybe I am not saying the right word) my Aperture library into Lightroom and he said the Aperture Library would stay as it is and the SAME pictures in Lightroom, are simply Copies of exactly what is in Aperture Library everything STAYS the SAME.  I have all the picture copies in Lightroom and the original pics IN Aperture.

    Aperture HAS repaired my Aperture Library several times in the past.  It somehow comes up and each time I panic, don't know what is happening, but somehow it does it with me doing some steps and all goes back to using it smoothly.  But this time I cannot even find or open the Aperture Library.  I am totally lost! I do not know is lightroom changed permissions or ownerships and have no clue how I get to repair my Aperture Library .

     

    Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library

    In the rare event that your Aperture database becomes corrupted or the files within it have permissions issues, Aperture provides a few methods for reconstituting your Aperture library and the file relationships within it.

     


    Leonie copied and pasted the above blue part.  I did everything on this reply except the blue and this part yesterday.  It takes me a long time to write, make myself clear and fix the many errors I make.  I goofed up on this and do not know how to send it back to you.  I think you will get this now and know what I wrote so far. I do no think the files are corrupted and opened Repairing and Rebuilding Aperture Library and could not follow any of the directions because I  cannot find the Aperture Library to open.

    It took me two days to write this. I struggle knowing how to write this and hope you can understand it.  Thank you for sticking to this with me. I cannot open Aperture and hope  you had a Good Easter.  Signed, Grateful Mary

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Mar 28, 2016 5:57 AM in response to Organic Green Apples
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    Mar 28, 2016 5:57 AM in response to Organic Green Apples

    Mary, I am on vacation and traveling, and rarely have a good internet connection.  So it may take a long time before I see your replies and can answer or even read it, because I have to read them on my iPhone.

     

    I only want to open Aperture but see NO pictures in Aperture, just these words on a left sidebar

           "LIBRARY: Projects,Photos, Places.

    Then you are seeing an empty Aperture library.

     

    How did you search for your Aperture Library? There are several ways:

    • You can launch Aperture while holding down the options key ⌥ - on some keyboards it might be labeled "alt". This will show the library chooser panel.  Does it show more libraries?
    • You can type ".aplibrary" into the Spotlight search field to find any Aperture library, that your Mac recognizes.
    • You can type "jpg" or the file name extension of your photo formats into the search field to search for any photos.

  • by Organic Green Apples,

    Organic Green Apples Organic Green Apples Mar 28, 2016 6:19 AM in response to léonie
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    Mar 28, 2016 6:19 AM in response to léonie

    Thank for for the quick response on your vacation using your iPhone. 

    I tried all three suggestions you made with no luck.

    .aplibrary ....comes up with a mis-spelling and goes nowhere

    jpg and I also on my own wrote in .jpg...I put both of those in , press send and the computer highlights what I typed in grey and then does nothing

    I made an OPEN appointment and may go in to Apple Store to see if a creative can help me this morning.  Not sure I can make it.

    Am keeping me fingers crossed.  Creatives either can help you quickly or they often look up this thing I am using with you.  It is a mystery to me so far but you have been very helpful with your suggestions and I am learning new things.  Thank you, leonie

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Mar 28, 2016 7:04 AM in response to Organic Green Apples
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    Mar 28, 2016 7:04 AM in response to Organic Green Apples

    If searching with Spotlight did not find your Aperture Library, search for the bits and pieces   inside the Aperture library. Use FindAnyFile to track them down:   FindAnyFile let's you find files inside library packages where Spotlight will not search.

    Download Find Any File here: The trial is free:

    http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.html

     

    One file that should be found in any Aperture Library or iPhoto library is a file named "DataModelVersion.plist"

    Enter this name into the Find Any File Search panel like this:

    Screen Shot 2016-03-28 a.png

    If you can find such a files, the enclosing folder might be your missing Aperture library.

    Select the file in the list of found files to see the path to the file:

     

    Screen Shot 2016-03-28 at 08.00.39GMT.jpg

    Good luck with the Apple Store genius.  It is so much easier to help, if you can see the computer you are trouble shooting. Make them search the computer for all traces of an Aperture Library.

  • by Organic Green Apples,

    Organic Green Apples Organic Green Apples Mar 28, 2016 10:18 AM in response to léonie
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    Mar 28, 2016 10:18 AM in response to léonie

    Leonie...   I just finished at one to one with a great creative. She easily helped me fix the problem and I know what to do if this happens again... hopefully, will know what to do. I am so happy that I used this support option and now I at least started to know what it is.  Have a wonderful time on your vacation and thank you much for another quick reply and all the replies you made. You pointed out many things and the time you put into this is much appreciated.  It is wonderful to learn there are people who will willingly help.  Bless you.  Mary

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Mar 28, 2016 10:23 AM in response to Organic Green Apples
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    Mar 28, 2016 10:23 AM in response to Organic Green Apples

    You're welcome, Mary!

    I'm glad you got your photos back!