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 02/14/2010 02:55:49 AM · #26
Originally posted by scarbrd:
Installed on my Mac Pro and MacBook without issue.

Playing around with the new features. Imported all my Lumix LX3 RAW files!!!!!

Looks like a worthy upgrade so far.


Excellent news, that feature alone would be enough for me to upgrade.

I've noticed there are quite a few new features in there that will prevent me having to edit in Photoshop, in particular the brush tools where you don't need to move into a separate editor.
 02/14/2010 03:07:44 AM · #27
It does look good and I have installed it on my Mac Pro and my MacBook Pro - however, I do need to report that it crashes all the time. It might be my computer, Aperture 2 has been crashing often since I put Snow Leopard on (more often when Time Machine is running), but this issue (for me) under Aperture3 is a lot more frequent.

A trawl of some forums will reveal that I'm not the only one.

Also,running plugins like 'Nik' requires 32 bit mode - that option doesn't seem to show up on some machines unless you install it twice.

I remain optimistic though - the feature set is definitely worth the upgrade money.
 02/14/2010 10:22:46 AM · #28
Originally posted by DelRioPhoto:
Originally posted by Covert_Oddity:
I've just installed the trial but I'm unable to import my current Aperture 2 library. Anyone tried that yet?


You won't be able to import your A2 library into A3 in "trial" mode. If you purchase A3, you can open your A2 library. To import your A2 library, it will take a while. Mine took a couple of hours. It will depend on how many photos you have in your library. Good luck. :)


I'm not sure why importing another library takes so long, but when I imported a A2 library into the A3 Trial Library my macbook was very busy for several hours. Simply importing a stack of RAW images actually goes fairly quickly. I purchased the upgrade last night so now I can try opening a library and letting in convert in that fashion, I'll post a response after I try it.

On a more positive note, the presets and non-destructive brushes are fantastic. Using the brushes on a full resolution 5D mkII file definitely pushes my laptop's performance to it's limits, but it's usable and saves a time consuming trip to photoshop. Friday afternoon did a quick retouch, including some burning and dodging, on 200 selects from a wedding session that I was showing on Friday night. The results where a hit with the client and I'm sure I almost doubled my print sales. I haven't had time to learn all the new things 3 can do, but I'm impressed already.
 02/18/2010 04:15:32 PM · #29
Try as I might, my Aperture 3 upgrade has been a nightmare. in Aperture 2.1.4, I had a ~31,000 picture library of referenced files consituting 36GB on my Macbook Pro. I bought the full version and installed it. It overwrote Aperture 2. When I launched the app for the first time it told me that it had to convert the library so it would work in Aperture 3. Alright to should take some time but no big deal.

I click ok and it tells me I have insuffient disk space. OK, my laptop only has 21 GB free so I copy the library to external (which has >100 GB free after the move) and do the conversion there. I set the process up right before I went to bed. When I woke up I noticed the conversion had stopped at 7% and I had a notice that my start up disk (the HD on my laptop was full and that I had to force quit Aperture 3). I check and sure enough Aperture had used all 22 GB of my HD as virtual memory for the conversion.

I am angered by this set back but decide to press on. I delete the copy of my library on my laptop, so now >50GB are free, and I set the conversion to run again. I go to work. I go the gym. I get back to my apartment 11 hours later... Progess is now stopped at 10% and I get the same message - "No space left on start up disk" I am defeated. There is clearly some kind of hienous memory leak going on ->50GB :-O.

I have started checking around online and it seems that many different aspects of Aperture 3 are plauged with memory leaks and other bugs.

FYI I have a late 2007 Macbook pro Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz + 2GB RAM, I am running snow leopard 10.6.2

I cannot access my photos in aperture at all. Thankfully I have a few things going for me...
-I made a back up my entire library before I even installed aperture 3.
-All of the photos in my library are referenced, and not really affected by all this shenanigainery.

I am angry now because I can no longer open my library because aperture 2 is gone. I would reinstall it, but I have to admit, I obtained it though less than legal measures. I know, I know. But I've turned over a new leaf: my copy of aperture 3 is totally legit.

I guess I have to wait for out boys in Cuppertino to release an update. I can only hope/guess that they are busting their ass to fix this.

Message edited by author 2010-02-18 16:17:11.
 02/18/2010 04:57:55 PM · #30
Originally posted by Five_Seat:
Try as I might, my Aperture 3 upgrade has been a nightmare. in Aperture 2.1.4, I had a ~31,000 picture library of referenced files consituting 36GB on my Macbook Pro. I bought the full version and installed it. It overwrote Aperture 2. When I launched the app for the first time it told me that it had to convert the library so it would work in Aperture 3. Alright to should take some time but no big deal.

I click ok and it tells me I have insuffient disk space. OK, my laptop only has 21 GB free so I copy the library to external (which has >100 GB free after the move) and do the conversion there. I set the process up right before I went to bed. When I woke up I noticed the conversion had stopped at 7% and I had a notice that my start up disk (the HD on my laptop was full and that I had to force quit Aperture 3). I check and sure enough Aperture had used all 22 GB of my HD as virtual memory for the conversion.

I am angered by this set back but decide to press on. I delete the copy of my library on my laptop, so now >50GB are free, and I set the conversion to run again. I go to work. I go the gym. I get back to my apartment 11 hours later... Progess is now stopped at 10% and I get the same message - "No space left on start up disk" I am defeated. There is clearly some kind of hienous memory leak going on ->50GB :-O.

I have started checking around online and it seems that many different aspects of Aperture 3 are plauged with memory leaks and other bugs.

FYI I have a late 2007 Macbook pro Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz + 2GB RAM, I am running snow leopard 10.6.2

I cannot access my photos in aperture at all. Thankfully I have a few things going for me...
-I made a back up my entire library before I even installed aperture 3.
-All of the photos in my library are referenced, and not really affected by all this shenanigainery.

I am angry now because I can no longer open my library because aperture 2 is gone. I would reinstall it, but I have to admit, I obtained it though less than legal measures. I know, I know. But I've turned over a new leaf: my copy of aperture 3 is totally legit.

I guess I have to wait for out boys in Cuppertino to release an update. I can only hope/guess that they are busting their ass to fix this.


I don't think any update is going to fix your issue. Your hard drive is too full to convert a 32 GB library. It needs room for the library and the temp file.

How big is your hard drive?

I upgraded my MacBook to a 500GB hard drive for less than $100.
 02/18/2010 05:09:29 PM · #31
The current situation is as follows: The HD in my laptop is 120 GB and has 50-55 GB free. My aperture library is now siting on my 500 GB external HD which has 105 GB free. When I open aperture and try to convert the library (I even uncheck the "process images box") it fills my macbook HD with temporary files till it makes me force-quit aperture (usually around 7-10%)
 02/19/2010 09:03:20 AM · #32
Did you try turning off faces support before converting? Faces just about did my mac book pro in, but I'm running fine with that feature turned off.
 02/19/2010 09:37:40 AM · #33
For the 10,000 actually 1-2 people that care... I have found a solution. Here is the longe version. I started by also moving my iTunes music and video over to my external as well leaving 91 GB of of 120 GB free on my laptop. I figured that I might have to have my library on my start-up disk (my laptop HD) for the conversion.

With 55 GB free, Aperture told me I had insufficient disk space before I even started the conversion. Frustrated, I pressed on. After doing a bit more research, people suggested that booting Aperture in 32-bit mode fixed a lot of issues. To do this, you have to check the appropiate box in the get info box accessed by right clicking on the app icon. Simple enough. I followed the instructions but when I right-clicked on Aperture there was no "launch in 32 bit button". WTF?

After a bit more additional research on the Apple discussion boards. I saw that people had tried booting their entire computer in safe mode (by restarting and holding down the shift key) and then rebooting it again normally. I tried the same and it worked Thankfully.

So now Aperture boots in 32 bit. Cool. On my external (which now has on 75 GB free because of the music/movies) I click on my Aperture library to convert it, as I have done in the past. At this point, I want only to updated the database, I can go project by project and convert the images I need to convert. I wanted to do the bare minimum conversion. Nusbaum, Turning faces on/off wasn't an option, but I wasn't processing the images in my library, just the library itself.

As I have done before the conversion starts and I begin checking the free HD space on my laptop HD it hovered around 91 GB free - things are good so far. I go to bed, and in the morning I see that database conversion is successful. Cruelly enough, having experienced victory, I had to leave immediately for work, Haha. Before I left, I set the computer to copy the updated library from my external back to my laptop. Tonight I will move my music and movies back too.

I am knocking on wood, but at least I can see my photos in aperture 3 and the database conversion appears to be successful - all projects and albums appear to have made it. I'll start playing around with the new features tonight. Hope this helps others

Scarbrd and Nusbaum, Thanks for your suggestions.

Message edited by author 2010-02-19 09:38:41.
 02/19/2010 02:06:29 PM · #34
//www.pcworld.com/article/189808/bugs_and_fixes_troubleshooting_aperture_3.html?tk=rss_news
 02/19/2010 02:24:50 PM · #35
Originally posted by chromeydome:
//www.pcworld.com/article/189808/bugs_and_fixes_troubleshooting_aperture_3.html?tk=rss_news


Yeah, some of those links are where I got my info. I think I will be running 32 bit for a while - at least until they release a bigger update than the one that patched the slide show.

Right now 95% of my time in aperture is keywording the ~31,000 odd photos in my library and reorganizing them by date. I can wait a bit for all the brushes to get sorted out. It seems incredible, but about 25,000 of them have been keyworded. What a monumental task.
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