Aperture and computer unresponsive with photostream

Hello every one, this will be my last ditch attempt with aperture before binning it.
Its been very unstable for me for sometime now many months on both an imac and macbook, updates from apple seem to be making matters worse.
To cap it all photostream seems to kill it entirely. Most of the time it seems to either be processing images or doing something with photostream. Whilst this is happening aperture is either dog slow or totally unresponsive and infact half the time my entire mac seems like its about to melt down.
Aperture as a programme seems to be falling over pretty rapidly for me, I don't know if anyone else feels that way. In an attempt to mitigate the issues I expereince all the time I have given up using raw, because these knock it over, on an imac quad core i7 with 8 gig of ram. Lion certainly has not helped and with photostream compounding it, I am finding productivity with aperture sliding.
IS anyone else having issues with this 'professional' software now?
Yes I have rebuilt the database and library many many times, fixed permissions, done all those things that make no difference what so ever. I repprossed all masters and thumbs before going to be one night and this helped for a while.
Aperture on my macbook is game over really, its just too slow and unresponsive to be considered viable.

Would referenceing be a mistake or might this eleviate some of the issues.
That depends; referencing will help, if you do not have enough free space on your system drive and you can free your disk this way. But you should connect your external drive to a fast port - fire wire, thunderbolt ...
If you on the other hand allready have all the disk space you need, this might may things worse, if your external disk is slow.
You really need to find out, what Aperture is doing; that is why I suggested to show the Activity window and watch the Console Window (Utilities -> Console). The performance you see is very untypical for a moderate sized Library.
I suspect your Aperture LIbrary may be corrupted in some way or your Preferences are faulty.
How to solve such problems is described in this support article.
Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics
Try to repair the permissions in your Library, and if that dos not help, repair the library as described in the article.
Post back, if that does not solve the problem.
Regards
Léonie
P.S. I would not change the type of the library to referenced, while there may be a problem with the library that need repairing.

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