Aperture and Lion vault problem. Have Lion ruined my Vault?

Hi!
I have my iMac since the release of mid-2010 models but it's my first post here.
I have installed Lion from a clean install of Snow Leopard and 10.6.8. I am restoring my programs, and I have a very big problem with Aperture.
I have restored my Vault and all my photos are show as "disconnected" because the volume "Mackintosh HD" is offline...
I can't understand this. I have use this Vault before without problems...
What can I do? Is my library ruined?

Figured it out. I started Aperture using CMD-OPT and repaired permissions. All the images came back. Not well thought out by Apple - Aperture was right where it always was, but after the upgrade, for some reason I no longer had permission to view my own images.

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I am using Aperture and File Vault on the same Lion OS X system. I cannot open Aperture and get an Aperture window and see if my precious and valuable photos did, actually, get captured by Aperture before I deleted the photos from my SD Card.
The spinning beach ball has run for days upon days. I have restarted. I have nothing else running in the background. I just let Aperture run overnight. I get the spinning beach ball forever. I do not ever see the Aperture window or view the recently uploaded precious and valuable photos.
What can I do? It will not be easy to withdraw File Vault because my hard drive is well-over half full.
I am re-rating this app as "hate it" on 3/12/2012. A year earlier I had rated it "don't like it." So, I have dropped the rating from two stars--seriously bad--to one star--cannot be worse.
I have encrypted the hard drive File Vault in system preferences. Apparently, this creates an over-whelming problem with Aperture because File Vault must encrypt and unencrypt the Aperture library which is presumably huge. The Aperture library is presumably well over 1 GB because the collection of all the photos and videos in your whole life add up. Apple combines them all-together into one ginormous file. In my case, the Aperture library is over 30 GB.
So, the problem is, at least, recently: I took a lot of photos in a recent travel adventure. I uploaded them to Aperture. Then I deleted the photos off the SD card. Now, Aperture will not load. It's been several days of trying, and I still don't know if I have lost my precious photos of the adventure with my son.
I am beyond angry.
I have stuck by Apple with Aperture since 1.1. I didn't like 1.1. I didn't like 2.0. I have absolutely hated 3.0. Even if you did come out with an amazing product, I would likely not purchase it again. I am so thoroughly disappointed and now enraged.

Your anger is understandable (and not something anyone here can help you with).
Your problem seems much more likely to come from File Vault than from Aperture. Lots of users use Aperture all the time (with large Libraries) with few problems (most of which are pretty easily resolved). For File Vault problems, you might get a more useful response in the Lion forum.
Once you do get things resolved, I strongly suggest finding a program other than Aperture. V. 1.1 came out in 2006. Six years is a _long_ time to use software that you don't like.

Since Snow Leopard Aperture 3 upgrades - multiple problems have all but disabled my computer

I recently posted an Aperture and Apple TV question and it was suggested to me that because I'm having the plethora of serious problems that I needed to bring up the other issues here to seek advice.
The following problems have been going on for many months and I've been using my computer less and less. I have posted about and followed most of these problems before but I'm going to revive my efforts to figure out how to get my computer working again because the situtaion is simply heartbreaking to me and unbearable to ignore. Now Aperture is crashing within seconds of opening it so I have no access to all my photographs and no ability to pursue my photograhy hobby any further.
First, a description of my set up. I have an early Mac Pro (Nov '06) with only 2 GB of RAM. It's a Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 3 GHz, with a ATI Radeon X1900 XT graphics card. I have a 500 GB primary drive where all my applications live and about 300 GB of free space there. My photo library is about 70,000 photos taking up 286 GB. I have all my photos residing on my second 1 TB internal HD with about 300 GB still free.
No matter what I'm working in, I have flashing artifacts all over my monitor. They flash several times a minute and are very distracting. Usually it's just random flickering about my desktop but it can also grab some part of my desktop or app I'm working in and make an odd, distorted area that hangs for a while. Sometimes the artifacts become quite bizarre. For instance, when my cursor is about to quit functioning (no click) sometimes it will form a track line of mulitiple colors as I drag it across the screen. I'd love to take a screenshot but when this happens I'm not able to click on anything and end up having to do a hard shut down with my power button.
I have horizontal lines that are sometimes confined to the browser screen but also go clear across my monitor. They are confined to my Apple Display and do not show up on the TV I have hooked up as a mirror monitor.
Crashes and instability have become the norm. I hold my breath on restarts hoping my cursor will click and my keyboard will work. I cannot estimate the times I've not been able to fill out a crash report or that I've typed a few short sentences and it's frozen before I can hit send.
The cursor is completely frozen in place only periodically. What is more common is that I can move it all around but can't select a thing. When that happens the keyboard is dead too. An action that tends to freeze the screen is when I scroll down within the first minute of my desktop appearing after restart and I get to the dock to pop up. At that second I'm often dead in the water. I can't click a thing.
The fans do tend to rev up when it's going to have the freeze up or dead cursor issues. I followed some advice to upload smcFanControl but I think I did something wrong. I can't select anything with it and it's done no good at all.
A recent annoying development is a half inch black band goes across the top and bottom of my monitor, robbing me of desktop real estate.
ALL of these annoyances with flashing, black bands and crashing disappear in Safe Boot, but that mode does not let me work in Aperture.
There have been a few more issues that I can't think of right now but these are the everyday problems. If anyone has the solution to these horrible disruptions, I will be eternally grateful.

I won't be able to try the Apple Hardware test right away because I don't have time to disconnect everything to run the test. I might also get into my computer to check for dust on the graphics card if I can find good instructions on removing it. While prowling the other topics from people having similar problems I came across this link:
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Having a unit that looks that bad is a definite possibility for me as I have cats and dogs.
I'm confused about your logic board comment. Why did you say that's a good lifespan for a portable when I'm discussing my Mac Pro? Is my logic board listed in "About this Mac"? If so, where? My hard drive accidently got fried by a tech just before my APP ran out and I know quite a few things got replaced but I can't remember exactly what. I'm wondering if that is newer that the stock logic board that came with the computer.

Aperture and Snow Leopard problems

I have multiple issues with Aperture after upgrading to SL (currently on 10.6.2). The major issues are:
(1) Whenever I import new images or make modification to existing images Aperture does not quit anymore. Command quit doesn't do anything and I have to force quit in order to exit program.
(2) After importing new files, often not all images are shown in the project or album (although all images have been imported and the tooltip shows the correct number of images in the project/album). Furthermore, keywords searches do not work. A force quit and reopening solves this problem.
(2) When saving or opening images the dialog box does not work properly and some folders are overlayed with black/grey boxes and things look corrupted.
Obviously, I have installed 2.1.4 and I do not have Aperture in any subfolder (it is directly in the app folder). Furthermore, I have deleted the preferences file (com.apple.Aperture.plist) but this did not help.
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Took about 2 hours.
Everything works perfectly and is quite snappy including Aperture. No problems with any of the Aperture functions.
It's a lot of work but its easy to do if you have other things to do while the software is installing.
If you are up to all that and dont mind the time, you'll be happy plus you now have a clean, fresh disk.

Aperture and Lion using ALL my ram

Using Aperture on a Macbook Pro (2008) Intel Duo Core machine.
Worked great with Snow Leaport, but now with Lion, eats ALL of my ram in minutes.
Forget about using any plugin's or external editors, but Aperture itself takes it all.
I have 4GB total in the machine.
If I upgrade the ram to 8gb, will that solve the problem, or does the ram just continue to be sucked
up by Aperture unil it's all gone no matter how much I have in there?
Thanks for any advice.

There is an entire thread on bugs in the Aperture/Lion combo here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15996854#15996854
In a nutshell, Aperture is buggy under Lion. Net result is that it is not usable with 4 GB or less and maybe even 8 GB is not enough.

Aperture and Lion

I was looking to buy Aperture as part of a birthday gift for my wife, since she love pictures. However, after reading about 10 reviews all have warned aginst this. Have these kinks been worked out with regards to the software and the OS?
Looking for some honest feedback here... I just purchased a new Mac book pro with 4gb and i7 proccessor and dont want this to chew up the performance on my machine.
Thanks in advance for any answers
WPA

WPallstar wrote:...10 reviews all have warned aginst this. Have these kinks been worked out with regards to the software and the OS?
I think you will find that anyone warning against Lion & Aperture did so based on less than 8 GB RAM or less than i7 cpu or on a marginal GPU or on an OS version before10.7.2 or on an Aperture version before 3.1.3 or some combination thereof. Upgrade to 8 GB RAM and your wife's MBP will fit none of those criteria.
• Heavy images-handling applications tend to be hardware and RAM hogs, and Aperture is one of the worst in that regard. One should optimize hardware for performance at every possible opportunity for optimum Aperture performance. Upgrading to 8 GB RAM is cheap via third party (OWC http://eshop.macsales.com/ or Crucial) and easy to install. Just do it - if for no other reason than to know that if you have performance anomalies it will be unlikely to be RAM.
• Most important is to back up originals before import into Aperture or any other images management app. Reading the "Aperture ate my images" threads here is very distressing to a photographer. It is not that Aperture routinely eats images (it does not) but it is a complex pro images application and users make mistakes setting up their workflows. One inexcusable mistake is failing to back up originals prior to working.
• Install the Aperture Library on an internal drive and never let the drive get more than 70% full as a rough guideline. Even less full is better, because hard drives slow as they fill. As the Aperture Library size grows the workflow regarding drives will need to evolve; plan on discussing that here then (not now, because evolution in SSD and Thunderbolt choices suggest we will potentially have new scenarios/costs later this year).
HTH
-Allen

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Hi - relatively new to Macs and Aperture (Windows/Lightroom user).
I have been trying to get decent (meaning not so dark) prints. I have calibrated the iMac 21.5" using a ColorMunki Display and print to an Epson Artison 835 using the Epson ICC profiles.
And no matter what I print from (Aperture, iPhoto and Photoshop Elements 10) all the prints are dark - like they are underexposed by 1-2 stops.
First I thought it was an Aperture problem but then saw almost the same results from the othe two programs.
I then did the monitor calibration using ColorMunki Display - and to be honest there was not a big difference in the brightness, a slight difference in the color cast.
But the prints are still coming out dark.
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Steve

This comes up frequently, regardless of equipment or software. Since you have the same result outside of Aperture as inside Aperture, the problem is not being caused by Aperture.
There are many things to check for. This post will give some ideas. After confirming that all software (including drivers) is up-to-date, the first things I'd look at are your luminance setting for the calibration (I use 85, but this -- like almost everything -- dependent on your work environment), and the display preferences for your monitor. See also this post.

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I'm relatively new at using Aperture. I have been downloading photos from my Nikon D200 into iPhoto and then modifying those photos in Aperture. This has worked fine for several months. However, after installing v 2.1.4, I can no longer access the images I've altered in Aperture, although the thumbnail images are still present at the bottom of the screen. How do I access the images previously modified in Aperture? Are they stored somewhere in iPhoto?
I've been hesitant to download images from the camera straight into Aperture because I'm still not as proficient as I'd like with the program. For whatever reason, there are few training opportunities for Aperture here in the US....another issue.

Thank you for trying to help me with the problem. Let me back up a bit further so that you can better understand my problem. Here are some of the problems:
(1) I had been downloading all my pictures (Nikon D200) into iPhoto. After selecting a few that I would like to make adjustment using Aperture, then only I import versions of it into Aperture. The way I had been importing images is by going into Aperture, go to File show iPhoto, select photos by dragging them into album that I had created in Aperture. Is this the correct way of importing photos from iPhoto into Aperture?
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This is a great area so hope you can help.
I have been an aperture user since day 1.
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I've been using Aperture for many years, starting with Aperture1 and now on lastest Aperture3. On a failed back up i lost some picture from April 2009 to June 2010. I have old vaults and so am hoping that those pictures are in the vaults. The problem is that Aperture3 does not read the old vaults. I've tried to uninstall Aperture3 and them install Aperture2. Installation was supposedly successful but Aperture2 is not showing up in the Applications folder. I'm currently running Mac OS 10.6.8. Any suggestions?

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2) Unlock the coped vault in the Finder. "Get info" then unlock, enter your password
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I installed Aperture and chose to leave all my images in the iPhoto library until I became more comfortable/familiar with Aperture.
I was looking at my hard drive space and see that the available space went way down. In Finder, the Aperture library.ap library is 17.97 gb and the iPhoto library is 122.75 gb.
When I open iPhoto, it says that it contains 19349 images/87 gb.
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I wish I had more info for this but I'm stumped. As I said there is no reason Aperture would increase the iPhoto library size by importing iPhoto's library.
BTW how did you do the import, that might shed some light on the problem.
The image count between the backup and the live iPhoto libraries seems fairly consistent so why the jump in size I can't say. And as for the increase in the number of images in Aperture, you started with an empty Aperture library, correct? And did you import anything directly into Aperture since you did the iPhoto import?
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As for the RAW & JPG thing, if you shoot both RAW + JPG's in your camera when you import them you have the choice of which to make the master or to make each one a master. Not sure if that is what you are referring to.
I'm wondering whether I would have been better off just moving the whole iPhoto library into Aperture at the beginning, and deleting the iPhoto library.
That is definitly one option and the option most users who switch eventually make. You're not going to want to have both programs handeling your photos. But you should probably hold off until you;re more omfortable with Aperture and make sure you have a good backup of the iPhoto library before you do anything.
Remember when you import the iPhoto library into Aperture you're only choice is to copy the images not move them. This is done so that you can make sure all went OK before doing anything with iPhoto.
If you have the room you could try bringing in the iPhoto library backup, and trying the import again into a new empty Aperture library.
regards

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I have been following some of the discussion on Aperture and iPhoto. I have not yet purchased Aperture but am seriously considering it. I am attracted to the extensive edits that can be done in Aperture yet I still like the slide show function in iPhoto. It seems that only iPhoto has the one function I would like to use on occasion, the Ken Burns Effect. My questions:
1. If I shoot RAW images (Nikon NEF) can I place edited images from Aperture into the iPhoto slideshow (which I like because of the Ken Burns Effect)? Will I have to convert them to jpeg?
2. If I shoot jpeg images will I have any limits in editing in Aperture, such as highlight and shadow adjustments, dodge and burn adjustments, and white balance adjustments?
3. Is my understanding correct that "camera settings" can only be modified in RAW files and that RAW files can not be used in slide shows?
I would appreciate any assistance to aid my understanding of the interaction iPhoto and Aperture, mainly the slide show features.
WM

1. If I shoot RAW images (Nikon NEF) can I place edited images from Aperture into the iPhoto slideshow (which I like because of the Ken Burns Effect)? Will I have to convert them to jpeg
In the Aperture Preferences there's an option to Share the Previews with iLife and iWork applications. In iPhoto you can go File -> Show Aperture Library and a media browser will open. You can drag the images from the Media Browser to the iPhoto Window and they will be imported. Then you can make your Slideshow.
2. If I shoot jpeg images will I have any limits in editing in Aperture, such as highlight and shadow adjustments, dodge and burn adjustments, and white balance adjustments?
Yes, but not because of Aperture. A jpeg is a compressed file, data has been thrown away to make it. Therefore there's less data to manipulate so the range of effect possible is less. Think of it this way: Draft a paper of 50 pages. Rewrite it down to 10 pages. Now try and have the same range of editing on the 10 page doc as you had on the 50 page doc. Nothing to do with your word processor, just less words to process...
3. Is my understanding correct that "camera settings" can only be modified in RAW files and that RAW files can not be used in slide shows?
I don't know about Camera Settings but the Aperture manual says (pg510) that to make a high quality slideshow be sure to use high resolution previews - which rather suggests that it's the Previews and not the RAWs that are used in the show.
Regards
TD
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