Hello all.. New to this site and Aperture as well.
I have recently purchased Aperture and love the features so far. I have imported all my iPhoto libraries and that went well I think (around 20k of images).
But it seems like Aperture wants to update all my images to Photo Stream and it takes forever. Right now it is down to about 7k images and the program has been running for days. Is it normal for Aperture to do this? I thought it was only around 1k of new images that should be updated or is this a totally different thing it's doing here?
Some of these images are very old no need to update those - right?
I have tried to quit the program a few times without luck due to a stalling update I reckon the process running now is the culprit?
Thanks for all the info I can get and thanks for a nice site.
Check the Photo Stream preferences in Aperture. The last setting “Automatic Upload - Send all new photos to Photo Stream” will upload all photos you add to your Aperture to Photo Stream. Typically this is intended to upload photos from your non-iPhone camera. You upload the non-iPhone photos to Aperture and Aperture pushes them to your Photo Stream.
In your case, it appears, it would be trying to upload your entire library to Photo Stream because they are all ‘new photos’.
Since Photo Stream is supposed to have a 1000 photo limit - not sure they are all actually getting to your Photo Stream - or maybe just the newest uploaded photo is pushing off the 1000th photo??
Jim
Thanks for your input..
That last option has been disabled some days ago, still no luck :(
Thomas,
I think Jim is right — since you had well over 1,000 images imported, Aperture started pushing them up as they came in, and is constantly replacing the images that are in iCloud. If you looked at your iPhone or iPad, in Photo Stream, I’d guess that you would see those 1,000 photos changing as the list is gone through. Sounds like a bad implementation of a massive import while Photo Stream is already enabled, to be honest.
And even though you have disabled the auto-upload, it sounds like that was done after the massive import, and so these images are still in the queue. So the thing to do is to kill the queue.
To do that, select the menu Window > Show Activity and you will see all background processes that Aperture is currently running. Look for one related to Photo Stream, select it and tap Cancel. That should stop the upload onslaught!
You may then want to disable and re-enable Photo Stream at that point, just to clear things out and ensure that it’s working as desired. To do that, just open the Aperture preferences, turn off Photo Stream, then I’d suggest waiting until the Photo Stream view is cleared out, and finally re-enabling it.
Let us know how that goes!
@PhotoJoseph
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