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spinning ball of death on cloning tool, even though my HD is 40% empty and I have 2 gigs of RAM. It doesn't matter if the only program I have open is aperture. 1.) The lag on cloning tool is maddening. 2.) I get freguent lock-ups, unexpected quits all the time. 3) I get a reddish maroon blank screen with an unsupported format message even though I have been working with an image without issue. ( I never have trouble downloading RAW files from Nikon D200) But every once in a while an image will be replaced by a reddish maroon blank. (it comes back after a restart) 4.) I built a vault on a Lacie 1TB external drive. I also export entire projects to the external drive, then delete projects on the internal drive to make room for more images. When I restart, the projects and their albums reappear with no images - even with the external drive disconnected or turned off. Why do these deleted projects reappear with no images? 5) Apple is unresponsive to these problems, if someone could solve these issues I might buy aperture3.

I started with A2 on OSX 10.4.6?? on an iMac with a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo. I've gradually upgraded SW and then HW and now I'm running A3 on OS 10.6.3 on an iMAC with a quad core i5. I'm running a couple of Lacie external drives for the vault and really big image files.
I've experienced your problems #1,#2,#3 (but not very often). I don't think your user experience is fundamentally going to change simply by upgrading to A3 on your existing machine.
A3 will not run faster than A2 on your machine. A2 is probably more bug free than A3 at this time.
If I was in your shoes, I would stay with your current Machine and A2. Upgrade your OS to 10.5 or 10.6 (perhaps even reinstall the OS). Make sure you are using Firewire not USB to connect the external drives. One thing that causes Aperture to lock up is resource shortages.
Check the free memory while running A2, see if its running out of RAM when it locking up. If so, add more RAM. (I had 3GB). Are by any chance running Photoshop and A2 simultaneously, or some other resource hungry application? If so I would add RAM for sure.
Check the console logs to see if any process is causing a lot of crashes or other trouble (I discovered I had a Canon twain driver that was launching a new process every 10 seconds)
Your problem #4 may be a bit of a mirage. Aperture keeps thumbnails and editing settings for each version of an image, these are different files and much smaller than the master image file. This additional info is kept in the Aperture library, it doesn't disappear when you delete master image files. That way you won't loose your organisation and your image edits if you ever bring the images back.
The extra info doesn't take up much room, and you are better off keeping it. You can control the size of this info by choosing a smaller thumbnail size, and then forcing the thumbnails to regenerate (BEFORE you delete the masters).
HTH
Eric

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