Gary,

1. Is everything else in the export preset being honored; i.e. size, watermark, format, and only the color profile is being set wrong? Or is everything else wrong, too?

2. When you say you “can not use”, what precisely do you mean? I assume you’re talking about the drop-down menu in the Browser [screenshot] — so is the menu missing? If not, when you select it does it pop back to a specific setting? Does the setting stick but the images don’t re-order? What happens if you move a thumbnail manually; does the menu switch to Manual?

3. This has been a long-standing bug. The loupe can open at some random zoom setting. I thought this one was actually addressed in the 3.2 update but I could be wrong; I don’t use the loupe much. But when I do and it opens wrong, I just scroll down on the mouse to zoom back out.

4. I’m not sure what sort button you’re talking about, or what “lost images problem” others are having. The only lost images issues reported here are extremely isolated and always due to moving files around incorrectly and/or old libraries that need to be repaired or rebuilt.

-Joseph @ApertureExpert

Gary,

Sounds like you have big-time database issues. When tracking down a problem like this, the easiest things to do are a) trash the preferences and b) create a brand new Library, import a handful of photos, and see if you can reproduce the problem. Reinstalling likely won’t help since it will just install the application, and not overwrite any preferences files. If you look in the home/library folder, you’ll find a few things you can remove if you really want to do a full uninstall. Go to ~/Library/Application Support/Aperture and also (root) /Library/Application Support/Aperture and also ~/Library/Preferences and look for anything Aperture related.

-Joseph @ApertureExpert

That’s what we’re here for… saving hair, one follicle at a time ;-)

Please do let us know how things go and if/how you end up isolating the problem.

-Joseph @ApertureExpert