Aperture 3.5 Update Showing Up For More Users
If you were having trouble seeing Aperture 3.5 update, try again
The traffic on the @ApertureExpert twitter account was out of control yesterday with reports of people seeing Aperture 3.5, and not seeing it, or seeing it and not being able to update, or seeing it but being asked to pay for it… however as expected, things are calming down this morning. Obviously Apple’s servers were in major overload mode yesterday. Frankly I’m surprised that Mavericks and all the software updates came out on the same day, given how many petabytes that must have meant Apple would have to move in the first 24 hours, so hiccups were expected.
This morning however I came to the studio to find the Aperture 3.5 update waiting for me (along with many others), which are all downloading now. So if you’ve had troubles… try, try again.
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Comments
on October 24, 2013 - 3:02am
I kept having the following error when trying to update any program.
“Failed to verify the preflight file. It is not signed by Apple”.
Still had this issue this morning even after Aperture finally showed up.
What I ended up doing was to setup a new Administration with a new user and password. Signed in with this new account and was able to download and install all updates. Went back to the original user name I had setup and signed back in. All updates where installed including Aperture 3.5.
Now the question is why it worked this way. Someone else on the Apple Forum did this, so I figured I give it a try. Oh well at least I am up to date with all programs now.
I was contacted by the Apple Team last night and the engineers are looking into this issue. So maybe I will hear back from them.
Stu
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on October 24, 2013 - 4:49am
Beware!
Aperture 3.5 is for Mavericks only, and, once installed, requires that you update your Library, so that Library is no longer usable with an earlier form of Aperture.
If you have Aperture on an older machine that cannot be upgraded to Mavericks, and you have a machine that now has Mavericks, you will have incompatible Aperture libraries if you upgrade Aperture to 3.5 on the Mavericks machine.
I checked out the community discussion and found that many photographers are in my position—the primary computer is an older MacPro, which can’t go past Lion and Aperture 3.4.5. The laptop has Mavericks.
I updated to Aperture 3.5 on the laptop and upgraded the Library and BOOM I had the great incompatibility. So I deleted Aperture 3.5 and copied back 3.4.5 from a backup drive, and I’m resynching my laptop’s Aperture Library with my mail Aperture Library using ChronoSync.
It would have been nice if Apple warned us about this.
jsamu50901
on October 24, 2013 - 8:27am
Joseph,
to be fair, the upgrade dialog does (and always has) warned you that there’s no going back [screenshot]
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on October 24, 2013 - 4:45pm
Aperture updateIt took a while to appear, then a while to download, but it seems to have been worth it. And I made sure that I backed up both iMac and MacBook Air before the Mavericks upgrade, so I felt reasonably secure in continuing with the library updates.
I am so pleased that SmugMug is integrated with Aperture now. I use it a great deal and it will be so easy now to upload shots to my galleries.
Chris
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on October 28, 2013 - 7:46am
Just wanted to point something out! Not sure if its because of Mavericks specifically, or just the 3.5 update… but something that has always bugged me is now working… and that’s you can now relink managed files.
I had about 5000 photos that got screwed up inside the library, and I was stuck with always manually going to the CR2s anytime i needed them (i’d reference the previewed thumbnails in aperture, then search the back)… now I’m able to relink them with the backup!
the only thing I’m finding is that i have to do this one by one and “reconnect all” isn’t working.
on October 28, 2013 - 8:03am
Relinking files has never worked perfectly for me. And it’s still not working as it should with Mavericks and the new update. As much as I like Aperture the relinking of Referenced files has always been an issue. Never does it get all of them without 3-4 attempts. It does a bunch on the he first try, then a bunch more on the second and more on the third. Depending on how were unlinked makes a difference on how many attempts it takes. Still the same situation with the newest update for me.
Daniel J. Cox