Aperture 3 continues to freeze

I continue to have problems with Aperture "not responding". My first problem was that my external HD was not formatted correctly. After formatting the HD to Mac OS extended, everything worked fine...for a very short time.
Now after doing very much at all I will have to repair permissions, then repair the DB and finally rebuild the DB and then things will work fine again...for a very short time.
But no matter what I do, after working in Aperture for any amount of time at all, it will start to "not respond" and I have to begin this exercise all over again.
I hope someone can please offer a simple solution to this problem. I can't imagine I am the only with this happening.
I also can't imagine that Apple continues to ignore this problem.
Thanks in advance for any input.

As long as only one user is accessing the library, it should work fine on an external drive. Many Aperture users have their libraries on external drives. I actually have multiple users accessing my library on an external drive by disabling permissions on the 2nd drive. (Get Info on external drive and check the "ignore ownership" box at the bottom). You shouldn't need to do this if only one user is accessing it.
A few weeks back that permissions setting on my external drive somehow got changed and I was experiencing symptoms similar to yours which is why I thought it might be your issue.

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