Every time I open Aperture I get the “Processing…” spinner indefinitely. When I open the Activity console I see that it is stuck generating a preview. I deleted the offending photo and restarted (I have to Force Quit every time) and I find that it is stuck on a new photo. I've deleted about 15 photos now and I feel like I'm just playing whack a mole. Some of these photos have been in my library for 3+ years, so I don't think there's anything actually wrong with them.
I have done the double-click+cmd+option trick to repair permissions, repair library and rebuild library, none of which seem to help. I've removed my Facebook account in case it was pulling a bad photo from there. I also attempted to open the library in iPhoto, but that app just starts beach-balling.
I'm using Aperture 3.4.3 on OS X 10.8.2. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I’m curious how long you have let it run generating the preview? I’m wondering if allowed to run long enough that it might actually finish. I can’t explain the lengthy duration, but I do wonder if it would eventually finish if allowed.
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I get spinning beachballs a lot & its typically when Aperture has hogged over 11Gb of my 12Gb of RAM & arbitrarily decides to stop paging any of the 600Gb of free space on my hard drive that it can use for virtual memory.
Rather than a Force Quit, I’ve started doing this now - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3881
I still get beachballs of course - it’s Aperture after all - but this Terminal method minimises/minimizes the need for database repairs & rebuilds. In your case, it may even force Aperture to finish building the preview before quitting by stopping Aperture doing other resource hungry things & devoting itself to the preview generation.
Worth a try?
Russell
Thanks for the suggestion, I will try killall in the future.
I solved my problem by resurrecting an older copy of my Aperture Library from Time Machine. I only lost an hour or so of work.