I’m at the end of my tether.
Aperture has been very glitchy for more than a month. I’ve tried all of the usual rebuild / repair permissions.
I’ve deleted every preview and then rebuilt them. This took five days non stop. When it finished I tried to work on some images and hey presto up pops the spinning wheel. The Activity Monitor reports that Aperture “isn’t responding”.
I forced a quit …… after three hours of spinning wheel I shut the computer down. When I restarted and reopened I’m told that the “library needs repairing”. So here we go again.
The only things I haven’t tried is reinstalling aperture and or creating a new library.
How do I do this? I bought Aperture as download in 2008 and can’t find the file anywhere only the license key.
Library is 4.4tb. Mac pro (2008) 14gb Ram
I’m having similar problems on a brand-new maxed-out iMac running Mavericks and 3.5.1.
What version of OS X and Aperture are you running?
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Mavericks 9.1 and Aperture 3.5.1
Memory 14 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Processor 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB
Go to the Mac App Store app and click the purchases tab. If Aperture shows up there, then you are safe to delete and reinstall the app via Mac App Store. I think in some Aperture update after Mavericks was released, all installations of Aperture were configured to be Mac App Store instances so you won’t need any of your original install media. I assume you will see Aperture in your Purchases tab in the Mac App Store since you are running 3.5.1 so I think it is safe to delete and reinstall the app. That might be the first thing to try. If you aren’t confident about that process, go to your local Apple store via Genius Bar appointment and they can help. Apple has the best support I’ve ever received anywhere.
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That’s an advantage of the Mac Pro I hadn’t thought of - you can take it to the shop!
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