Aperture 3 won't open in two user accounts

My new girlfriend and I are both photographers, and share one iMac with Aperture3.
Both of use are Aperture3 power users and the bulk of our time on the iMac is using Aperture.
Recently I decided to make her her own account on my iMac but she couldn't open Aperture if it were open on my account.
I don't recall having this problem with Aperture 2...
is there a way to override this? Most of our fast user switching will be from me working with Aperture in my account to her using Aperture on her account.

The only good way to share an Aperture library between two accounts is to store the library file on a 2nd (non-boot) drive with "Ignore Ownership" turned on. Unless you have a Mac Pro with multiple internal drives, you'll need an external drive (preferably a Firewire drive but USB will also work). To turn on "Ignore Ownership", do a Get Info on the drive and check the box at the bottom of the Get Info window. It needs to be a non-boot drive because you cannot turn on Ignore Ownership on the boot drive.
Even if you do as I suggest, only one account can have the library open at a time.
I've been sharing a library with my wife (separate account) using a 2nd internal drive in my Mac Pro for about a year and it works well. Except when she deletes photos that I would have kept (of her) - but that's a different problem.

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