my 1 year old imac has been acting strange, losing connection with my external hd, not completing time machines backups because my external hd disappears, and sometimes aperture gets stuck with the beach ball icon. i have to force quit shutdown my cpu with power button in the back and lately i have been getting the repair aperture library due to inconsistencies, i do it, and works fine before all these things happen again.
should i Rebuild my aperture library?
is there a problem with my aperture library, or is this an operating system problem?
please advise. thank you.
Agreed with Grant and David, I think that your issues are beyond the Aperture library, but they are affecting the Library. You need to get your Mac in order. Consider a clean OS install as well… there are loads of tips on things you can do to clean up your Mac, which are beyond the scope of this site but are rampant around the interwebs. A little googling for “OS X maintenance” should put you in the right direction.
IMHO avoid MacKeeper. Maybe others will disagree, but I don’t think it’s well made software and frankly I can’t stand their marketing practices. I don’t like companies that work very hard to make their ads look like they are part of the host website or use scare tactics to get you to install. And once installed, it’s like a virus — it’s extremely hard to get rid of it.
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Never hurts, AFAIK, to rebuild and repair the library. Also general maintenance to the mac won’t hurt, may not do anything either but worth a try….. boot in safe mode and restart, reset pram and smc, restart in single user mode and do the fsck thing. See Josephs notes in FAQ. cheers
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so there is no harm in Rebuilding library?
just want to make sure before i opt to rebuild.
thanks a lot.
I don’t think it’s a problem with Aperture or your system. It sounds like the HD has issues.
Restart your Mac holding down the Option (Alt) key and choose to run from the Recovery disk. Choose Disk Utility and run repair on your ext HD.
Make sure you have backups that are not damaged.