Hi There
Having got the update, I loaded aperture - chose NOT to reprocess the masters and set it to convert my library.
4 hours later, it had done 6% and a message came up saying:
Your Mac OSX startup disk has no more space available for application memory.
(it had said 6% for 3 hours, but had not hung (you could see the numbers going down).
there was 194Gb free disk space on the startup drive.
I actually tried this twice, and the same thing happened both times.
During the 4 hours the computer was unusable - not even mail would work.
I am now trying by creating a new library, and importing my old library - this is looking more promising as it’s imported 15,000 photos in an hour (and I can still type this message).
My Aperture library has abou 30,000 images in it - all images are held on an external drive, the library on my 500Gb internal drive.
I’m running a 17”MBP with 500gb HD and 4Gb ram 2.66 processor (unibody)
all the best
Jonathan Slack
Very interesting. Please do keep us posted… as with any major release it won’t be without it’s hiccups, but hopefully all will workout well in the end!
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Gloom and Doom
I tried to import the library - this looked good - it took around 6 hours to import 47,000 images (didn’t realise I had so many). When it had finised, I clicked on one project . . spinning beachball of death, for an hour. The only option was to force quite. I restarted the machine and opened Aperture - the projects and folders are all imported, but the Activity window shows
Updating Library
Processing 82,644 items - it is going at the rate of about 10 items per minute. That sounds like 6 days to me, and the computer is basically unusable for all except email and web browsing, it’s using all resources.
I’m at my wits end - this has now been going on for 24 hours - I have other things to do.
all the best
Jonathan Slack
All the best
Jonathan Slack (www.slack.co.uk)
I’ve installed Aperture 3 on my Mac Book Pro and my iMac. Not a very good experience so far.
I installed it on the MBP first. It converted the library OK, but I ran in to some bugs after that. The first bug I saw was with the Flickr publishing. It would not accept a click on the Publish or Cancel buttons. The button would change color as though I pressed it, but nothing happened. I could click and interact with the other fields in the box. Finally I clicked on the change account button and canceled that. Then the cancel button worked. I was then able to publish the photo.
The other but I saw was when zooming to 100%. The right half showed the photo I was working on, but the left half showed random rectangles of a different photo. Zooming out and back in again resolved that problem. On Aperture 2 I saw similar behavior, except that the left half was totally black.
Faces was processing during that time and it was taking a very long time. No problem. I just left it alone and let it continue process. It was about 10% done when I left it. When I checked on it in the morning Aperture had crashed.
After I left the MBP last night, I installed it on the iMac. It was about 5% done converting the library when I went to bed. When I check on it this morning, the computer was totally non responsive. The screen would not come back on and it no longer showed up on the network. I did not have time to investigate. I do not know if it is just locked up or if it had shut down.
So typical of Apple to release a new product with so many problems. I used to not be this way. So disappointing. I played with Lightroom 3 beta for a while. Was considering a switch, but I just like Aperture more. But Lightroom 3 beta never crashed. It didn’t crash once on 4 different computers in several months that I can remember. Did I mention it was beta? Why is Adobe’s beta more stable than Apples final release?
Talk about a buzz kill. I was so looking forward to this release. I’m glad I don’t have to make my living with it. Hopefully an update will be out soon.
With Snow Leopard I waited for a few updates before I took the plunge, but the excitement got the best of me this time. I’ve been burned for being an early adopter so many times by Apple and I keep doing it. Shame on me.
Okay - a more positive update.
First thing is that the Activity Window is your friend.
If you have a big library
Then:
Don’t just load Aperture 3 and upgrade your library - it’ll bog down your computer completely, and will almost certainly not finish (I’ve tried on 3 different libraries, and in each case I’ve had the :
Your Mac OSX startup disk has no more space available for application memory
message
Rename your old Aperture 2 library, and then create a new library in Aperture 3. Set preferences so that:
1. Face recognition is turned off
2. Automatically generate previews are turned off.
Then Import from your old library - you can see the progress as it adds the projects, but don’t expect to do much else with your computer until it’s finished - my 47,000 photo library on a 17 MBP 2.66 with 4GB took about 8 hours.
3. when this has finished don’t be tempted to look (it will probably freeze)- close Aperture and reboot your computer
4. Load Aperture, choose Window / Activity and see what it’s doing - after a few minutes it’s likely to say:
Updating Library, with a very large number of items to process - mine has done around 40,000 out of about 85,000 today.
5. if you want to do anything - pause this process and restart it when you’ve finished.
6. Restart the computer every hour or so (it seems to go much faster after a restart).
I’ve imported a couple of hundred photos having paused the process and done some processing - I’m seriously impressed with the brushes and general useability - it seems quite snappy as well.
Back to my first point though - keep the Activity monitor open - when you can see what it’s doing you can see when / why it’s going slowly.
I’m feeling much more optimistic about this - and the fact that it’s taking so long to process my files isn’t so surprising - it represents several years of my work, and if it takes a day or so to catch up, then sobeit!
I hope this is helpful to someone - all the best
Jonathan Slack
All the best
Jonathan Slack (www.slack.co.uk)