Aperture 3 Trial Crashing & Other Wonkiness

[Karl W]

I have been testing the trial version today (with Aperture 2 safely secured). I have already experienced two crashes. In addition, the HUD adjustments pane does a gradual disappearing act when I scroll - seems to go to white or fade out. Is restored if I click on the metadata tab and then back again. Does NOT in full screen mode.

Otherwise, this version is a nice improvement.

Anyone else experience issues with the Trial???
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DigitalKarl

 

[0tim0]

I've not yet had a crash. I am completely impressed with the speed (not to mention the fantastic new tools .

And, FWIW, I think the "fading out HUD" is a feature:

Vanishing HUD

If you hold down the Shift key while moving an adjustment slider in the Adjustments HUD, the HUD vanishes, giving you an unobstructed view of your photo as you make adjustments.

May or may not be related to what you are seeing...

--t

 

[jff123]

I've just crashed it three times in a row trying to print to .pdf a custom photo layout. Sent a crash report to Apple. I've been so tempted to spring for the upgrade now, but know I should probably stick with version 2 since I need to actually do some work with it. Other than that I'm liking the new features, etc. Hope they can get the bugs worked out soon.

 

[Karl W]

So NOT a feature. The upper portion of the HUD info is fine but as you scroll, it seems to fade to white with a faint imprint in black - this is really big problem with my copy. Happens in every launch.
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DigitalKarl

 

[fyngyrz]

I'm running an 8 GB macpro. Aperture 3 completed the import of my library in a few hours. Mixed internal and external libraries. The libraries are a mix of Olympus E20, Canon 40D, Canon 50D, and Canon 5DmkI images. I had no problems with any image I ever looked at or processed in Aperture 2.

Then the program started, and began recognizing faces. While it was doing that, I successfully imported a Canon SRAW1 and SRAW2 image from the 50D. That worked fine.

It got, I think, most of the way through the recognizing faces process -- the "Faces" pane showed quite a few faces, and I was prompted to name quite a few of them -- but Aperture now crashes almost immediately (within a few tens of seconds) after start up.

So I disabled the faces feature (via a check mark in the preferences dialog), but it still crashes the same way.

Left-clicking on the "processing" message in the status bar opens a task dialog that shows Aperture 3 is "processing" "0 of 1380 images." If I...

• do nothing: crash
• open dialog, do nothing: crash
• open dialog, click cancel (it says "canceling"): crash
• open dialog, click cancel (it says "cancelling"), close dialog: crash

In the process, it eats all of my main memory - I go from about 6 GB free to zero free (8 gb in use.)

Upon crashing, the memory is returned.

The Aperture 3 installation is absolutely unusable. Waiting on Apple to see what they'll do. until then, I can take photos, but without Aperture, I'm kind of stuck. DPP doesn't work on this machine either (it's Leopard, 10.5.8)
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[mino]

In three days Apperture 3 crashed 2 times. I also "lost" 672 pictures in one project. They were not really lost as the info of the project was still telling me that I have 672 pictures, I could play the slide show of those pictures, but I could not see any of them in the browser, split view or viewer windows, that means I could not do any adjustments. At the end I had to delete the project and re-import pictures. I also had an interesting experience when I made my first slide show - only the first picture was in the focus, the rest was out of the focus (even after exporting the slide show). After re-installing the Aperture and re-doing the slide show everything was OK.

I have about 8 months old MBP, 2.8 GHz Intel Core Duo with 4 GB of RAM. I am still getting spinning wheel when I make adjustments, but I could live with that if the above problems would not re-occur as I like many things Aperture 3 has. Lightroom 2.6 and 3 Beta are certainly faster and they do not use as much of the computing power as Aperture does. When I run Aperture my cooling fans are running almost constantly at higher speeds and the CPU temperature is also higher when compared to Lightroom.

I am not yet decided if I switch from Lightroom to Aperture, but I am not giving up on it yet.

mino

 

[Karl W]

Crashes when printing. Set up for the print and the program crashes after clicking the print button.

Also, the dialog box for selecting the print style option does a disappearing act when scrolling. Comes back if you click on any option.

While I really like the new additions - this version can't be used for production.

Apple - please fix!
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DigitalKarl

 

[Alpha Doug]

I hope that all of you who are posting about your problems on here are posting comments to an appropriate Aperture support forum on the Apple web site. And also using the direct feedback option in the program. Also, if you copy of Aperture is "crashing", I really would try using Disk Utility to rebuild permissions. True crashing (the program just quits) is one of the actual reasons to do a permission rebuild. And if it keeps doing it, pull the .plist from the library (while the program is closed) trash it and empty the trash, then start the program back up. Might fix your problem.
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[JeanYves Hudon]

As many on the forum, I really love the features; superb piece of software but unusable! I have an iMac Core Duo 2.8 GHz 2gig RAM (only!) and the application is processing forever, crashed a few times.

Could you actually believe that Capture NX2 is actually smooth and fast on my machine. It never crash and output is superb.

I was really tempted to buy A3 but I will hold off for a while. I reported to Apple, hopefully it is going to be fix.

Cheers

 

[Karl W]

Re-doing permissions does nothing. Which plist do you mean? There are several.
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DigitalKarl

 

[linnnnn]

Hey Karl, you have a crash/problem report by chance? Did you report it to Apple with steps? Next time you crash, feel free to contact me offline and perhaps I can help you out troubleshoot (and any extra info is great, for ex provide more specific steps, what were you printing, what settings did you choose, your configuration, was this an upgrade or fresh Trial install etc.)