Repair brush spinning-loading for very long time

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Repair brush spinning-loading for very long time

I have a 2009 MacPro with Snow Leopard and Aperture 3.2.4. I use the repair brush a lot to clean up dust and spots on old scanned negatives and slides.

When I click a lot of repairs on a picture, I eventually start to get the spinning - loading indicator. Usually I can make it through repairing the picture with a little patience.

I'm halfway done on one picture that has had a lot of repair clicks. The spinning-loading indicator stays on so long that it will be almost impossible to finish the picture.

I tried working on another photo and then back to the problem one. I tried using curves on the problem one hoping that the cache or whatever it is would clear and I could start with the repair brush again.

I imagine one solution would be to export the version full size and then re-import it as a new master.

Any other suggestions?

MacPro Quad Core Xeon, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 32 gb memory 4 1TB internal drives

Posted on Sep 3, 2016 11:48 AM

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Answer 1

léonie

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Sep 4, 2016 11:26 AM in response to bbolander

Your Mac with 32 GB memory should be able to handle any amount of retouching. Or are you running out of storage on your system drive?

It is hard to guess, what the problem might be.

Check, if it depends on your current Aperture Library by testing the retouche brush in a new Aperture Library created for testing.

Have you tried any of the trouble shooting in this support document?

Get help with Aperture 3 - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201289

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bbolander Author

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Sep 4, 2016 1:48 PM in response to léonie

My main HD is 60% full, so plenty of space. The problem only occurred in a deadly way on this specific photo, I move on to the next photo and the brush works fine. I tried the option-command click on the Aperture application in finder to get the first aid tools. Tried all 3 repairs and none of them helped. Even deleted the Dropbox folder and Application that I've seen pop up when I load iMovie so it's running in the background. That didn't help.

The solution was to export just the problem photo at full size, delete the version and master in Aperture, and re-import the exported version. Now the brush works fine on the problem picture.

It would be nice to eliminate the spinning-loading repair brush completely, but it's workable. Maybe the later versions that I can't get with Snow Leopard have improved that. Thought about going through the OS X upgrades and the Aperture upgrades but that's so messy since my version of Aperture is on a purchased disc, not from the AppStore. As long as my setup works I'll probably stay with it.

I'm guessing that since Aperture doesn't permanently apply adjustments to a photo until it's exported, too many adjustments can cause this problem on an individual photo. Maybe it's some kind of cache limit in Aperture.

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léonie

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Sep 5, 2016 5:23 AM in response to bbolander

Maybe the later versions that I can't get with Snow Leopard have improved that. Thought about going through the OS X upgrades and the Aperture upgrades but that's so messy since my version of Aperture is on a purchased disc, not from the AppStore.

It is too late to update Aperture now. You can get only to Aperture 3.4.3 on Mt. Lion. But to update to Aperture to the current version 3.6, the only version that will work with El Capitan you will need the help of Apple Support, because the update is only available by reinstalling Aperture from the AppStore.

Because Aperture is no longer developed, Aperture on El Capitan has new bugs, that properly never will be fixed.

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bbolander Author

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Sep 5, 2016 5:25 AM in response to léonie

Do you think that going to 3.4.3 on Mountain Lion would be a significant improvement over my 3.2.4 on Snow Leopard? Or that Mountain Lion would be an improvement over Snow Leopard?

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léonie

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Sep 5, 2016 1:15 PM in response to bbolander

Do you think that going to 3.4.3 on Mountain Lion would be a significant improvement over my 3.2.4 on Snow Leopard? Or that Mountain Lion would be an improvement over Snow Leopard?

It depends. Snow Leopard (version 10.6.8) is a very robust system and Aperture 3.2.4 as well. You should not have performance issues with Aperture 3.2.4. There must be something else wrong.

Mt. Lion and Aperture 3.4.3 do not add any new editing tools or better performance to Aperture. What Mt. Lion added is iCloud, the AppStore, and new security features. And it made many older applications incompatible, because Mt. Lion does no longer support Rosetta, the emulator for PowerPC code. If you decide to upgrade the system, check all your applications you need, if there are still Power PC applications, that would need upgrading to Intel versions.

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bbolander Author

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Sep 5, 2016 1:16 PM in response to léonie

Thanks Leonie, makes me feel pretty secure in what I have now.

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