Aperture 3.01 Some Observations

Upgrade to 3.01 a few observations
1) Faces is much faster now. I have tagged 10,000 faces and it is not as painful. Still needs some work.
2) Memory issues a lot better, I have 10 gigs and sometimes that was not enough
3) I still crash once in a while
4) Need to fix orphan flow when you are in faces and double click to view full photo. No way to go back.
5) Sometimes have problems quitting program. (Have to force quit)
6) Need to be able to have hot key to enlarge and decrease brush size so I can map it to my pen.
Please list your observations and fixes.
Message was edited by: mitch paull

Working much better than 3.0.0 (memory issues are gone and it's actually usable now) but sadly, there are still a few glitches:
- Export watermarks are still broken (scaled way too big)
- Faces still buggy and crashy (see http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2349481 )
- When double-clicking a person in the "Faces" view, then double-clicking one of the images of that person and then browsing through the images using the arrow keys, Aperture sometimes shows images not belonging to that person
- Magic Mouse scrolling isn't very nice in general, often way too fast and "jumpy" compared to e.g. scrolling a webpage in Safari
- In "Places" especially, scrolling on the Magic Mouse is much too sensitive. Move your finger a bit and it will suddenly zoom all the way in or all the way out. And also: How about limiting zoom to a "up/down" motion, it's also zooming on "left/right" at the moment. Very confusing.
- Sometimes the right side of the viewer is cut off by a few pixels, including the UI elements that surround it, like the "Quick Preview" button on the lower right corner
- Lots of graphical glitches on my Radeon X1600 graphics card when doing adjustments: Flickering, oddly-coloured shapes showing up etc., appears to be a graphics driver problem
- Aperture sometimes decides to update a few thousand thumbnails for no apparent reason (although that might have been caused by the crashes I encountered while using Faces)
- After my update to 3.0.1 Aperture found none of my referenced master images. The images are located on a samba share which was, of course, mounted at the time. However, in the "Referenced files" dialog, the volume was shown as being offline. A "Reconnect all" fixed it but still shouldn't have happened in the first place. See also: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2334989
- [edit] One thing I forgot in my initial posting: The loupe in AP3 still changes magnification by itself from time to time and/or has a strange default magnification after starting Aperture (sometimes 1600%, sometimes 500something% etc.; should be 100% by default IMHO). This behaviour was also present in AP2. See also: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11045005

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