Page content loaded. Mar 26, PM in response to johnfromnorth andover In response to johnfromnorth andover. Select Library. Then go to Preferences. Look for a. Move the. Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop. If the application is the same, return the. Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
Mar 26, PM. Please walk me through this assuming more ignorance on my part. I am not getting to first base here. Mar 27, AM in response to johnfromnorth andover In response to johnfromnorth andover.
Ok lets try again, click on your Desktop, to make Finder active, now open a New Finder Window in the sidebar click on your Home folder, the little house. Now proceed with the instructions Eric gave you for finding the plist and removing it, restarting etc. Mar 27, AM. To make matters worse, Aperture was in the middle of importing photos from a memory card at that time.
Upon rebooting and opening Aperture, it would begin processing and then crash consistently. To fix it, I opened the library that I was working on in repair mode. Follow this guide: aperture. Hope it helps. And with 4 GB, yes, you're touching some of your limits ; To do what you want, you have two options.
The first is to manually move your photos onto your hard drive, organize them as you will, and then import them into Aperture as referenced files. Aperture will load the photos from their own location. The other option is to use Aperture in its default managed mode , where photos are imported directly into the Aperture library.
For backups within Aperture, use the Vault feature. As I navigate through the images, adding keywords and deleting unwanted shots, Aperture keeps crashing. It offers the choice to "reopen" and about half these occasions also requires me to "repair" the library, which takes several minutes.
Each time I reopen Aperture after these events, it seems to have remembered my previous changes, and I continue working at a new place each time. I take this to mean the problem is not a corrupted file. Can anyone tell me what might be causing this aggravating phenomena?
Could it be a hardware issue, like a bad cable to the portable drive? Thank you. A bad cable is the most likely reason for this. Firewire has been the best most reliable connection I've used for external drives.
Sign up to join this community. If new photos, perhaps your memory card is corrupting the files. Do you reformat your card after every use in the camera I mean , or just delete? PhotoJoseph — Have you signed up for the mailing list? You said you opened while holding option and command, which would give you the repair library functions.
Have you done any or all of those? First thing to find out is if the problem is your library or your installation. The easy way to test this is to create a brand new library, import a few pictures and play around, and see if it crashes. Launch Aperture 3 with the option key held down; this will give you the Library chooser. In the lower right corner, choose Create New… and save the new library anywhere you like.
Import some photos, and start playing. I just tried your suggestion. I created a new test library.
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