Aperture 1.5 loves beachballs? Post speed up tips please.

Aperture is now pretty much down to a snail pace.

It keeps wanting to make previews and I unchecked the box in the
library and deleted the thousands in my computer HD and user folder.

Old Aperture was taking a couple of seconds to open an image and now
its almost 20 seconds or more for each one.

Dispite the new features, it is almost unusable now.

Post anything to turn off or tips for getting it to get back to the normal
refresh rate for opening files. I'm not sure I want to uninstall and go back
to 1.2 yet.

There should have been some warning about what previews would do to
your HD space and/or slow down processing on current projects. I'm now
several day behind on a project because of the upgrade and the slowness
of 1.5.

Ouch...... Maybe there are ways to shut off features to speed things along?

Turning off automatic generation for new projects will not disable that "feature" for the ones that have been flagged before. You have to manually select each project and deselect "Maintain Previews for Project" from the action menu (the wheel button in the top right corner of the tree view).

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For new projects, go to Aperture -> Preferences. At the bottom of the dialogue, uncheck the two boxes related to previews. This works for new projects - I've verified that. I don't know how you stop it from generating previews for new versions within an existing project that already has previews, but there's gotta be a way.

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RAM, RAM, and more RAM. I have a rev. A PowerMac G5/2.0 with 2.5GB of RAM and an X800XT. 1.1.2 ran tolerably on it, 1.5 beachballed like crazy, even after it finished the generating the previews. I started yelling at the machine at times. I added two more gigs and now it's pretty decent, better than 1.1.2 ever ran. Mind you when I first got this machine, running 10.2, I think, OS X and all the apps I have running were much lighter, I guess I never really noticed that the software was slowly getting more and more bloated, erm, I mean feature filled.

I'm running it on a powerbook g4 and its been faster for me. But of course since I'm running a lower end machine, so it will seem faster.

I did rebuilt the library which I wouldn't recomend, but I have not comitted to Aperture, so I only have a few thousand images. But rebuilding really seemed to help as I've added and removed many different projects.

I did set previews to the lowest setting in the preferences which greatly sped up everything.

And as someone pointed out, each projects setting for maintaining previews might override the main library settings.

i forgot to mention that reduceing the preview size down form unlimited in the prefences seemed to make a different also.

also, reinstall 10.4.8 by downloading the combo updater from the apple website (opposed to using software update) and make sure you run disk permissions before and after the update.

My aperture doesn't like beachballs and is absolutely much much faster than 1.1.2. I have previews disabled

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I've got the same initial machine as you and I also get tons of delays. Since I've decided not to get a Mac Pro for a while I think I'll have to look into getting some more RAM. Hopefully it'll help out like you say.

I don't run aperture yet but occasionally notice an increase in frequency in the appearance of the beach ball (or as I call it "the spinny umbrella of death") in other processor/graphic intensive apps. When that happens I run a little utility called Onyx that flushes a whole bunch of things as well as repairs permissions and it works wonders. This might be helpful to you. Just a thought.....
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Paxman said:

I don't run aperture yet but occasionally notice an increase in
frequency in the appearance of the beach ball (or as I call it "the
spinny umbrella of death") in other processor/graphic intensive
apps. When that happens I run a little utility called Onyx that
flushes a whole bunch of things as well as repairs permissions and
it works wonders. This might be helpful to you. Just a thought.....

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I noticed that PhotoShopCS 2 on my 24" Intel iMac may have a Memory Leak. After editing a couple images and closing the application, I notice that my "free RAM" has shrunk to just a few hundred MB out of 2 GB. The only way I have found to get it (RAM) to release is to REBOOT the machine. This version of CS2 I am using is only the 30 day free trial, so maybe the regular version doesn't have the same problems.

CS2 is doing the same thing that Safari does, only much faster. After the RAM gets used and not released back for use, I get a slow beachball tossing, umbrella twisting, vacationer... instead of a work horse.

Victor E said:

I noticed that PhotoShopCS 2 on my 24" Intel iMac may have a Memory
Leak. After editing a couple images and closing the application, I
notice that my "free RAM" has shrunk to just a few hundred MB out
of 2 GB. The only way I have found to get it (RAM) to release is to
REBOOT the machine.

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How did you notice that ?

Are you sure that the free RAM wasn't simply marked as "inactive" instead of "free" ? For most practical purposes, inactive and free mean the same thing and you should not reboot the machine.

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AperturePro said:

Aperture is now pretty much down to a snail pace.

It keeps wanting to make previews and I unchecked the box in the
library and deleted the thousands in my computer HD and user folder.

Old Aperture was taking a couple of seconds to open an image and now
its almost 20 seconds or more for each one.

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The two things you mention are not unrelated.

Aperture has always had preview images, it just allows you to control them now which it did not before.

Preview images do help in bringing up images for review, as if it can use a preview first you will see it much faster.

How about this - instead of selecting no previews, turn on previews but set them to the smallest size with a somewhat minimal quality setting. Then they should not take long to generate but should help the program display images faster in some cases.

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