Aperture and .Mac Gallery

Hi there! I downloaded the trial version of Aperture 2 on my G5 Dual 2.0Ghz. With my X800 XT it sounds to work faster the the first version, but I have got some troubles with .Mac gallery. I have installed Little Snitch on my G5, and when I run Aperture, it asks me the authorization for logging to .Mac gallery. Well, I allow the connection, but Aperture becomes unusable, absolutely slow. From the monitor network of little snitch I see that there is always an exchange of data from Aperture to .Mac gallery. This strange connection is always active even if I don't have any .Mac gallery in my library, or when the .Mac gallery is already published. I already checked that if I don't allow the connection, no data are sent ore received and the speed of Aperture is good. Can anyone tell me how it's possible that?
Thanks for all replies
Fabry

I've been researching the same issue. I have a .mac account and have been playing with iPhoto '08, creating albums and publishing them on my .dot mac Web Gallery. I love the features of the Web Gallery (syncing, downloading pics, other people uploading pics, subscribing). All of these features at the touch of the Web Gallery button at the bottom corner of iPhoto have made me a Mac Convert!
That said, I like the "expanded" features offered in Aperture (referencing to masters, editing, seemless editing with Photoshop, better templates for albums and web stuff). However, I recently created an "Album", a new "Web Gallery" from that album and then clicked the "Publish to .mac" button. Voila! It sent it to Homepage in .mac instead of "My Gallery" (the one I set up via iPhoto). Both are visible in my .mac account, but there should be a way to publish my Aperture album/web gallery to "My Gallery" instead of Homepage. I'm trying to avoid importing the Aperture photos into iPhoto because it copies them into iPhoto creating a nasty disk space issue for me. In fact, that's one of the major reasons I wanted to use Aperture (so I could simply "reference" the photos on an external drive).
Let me know if you hear of any solutions.

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I have a website which was created in Aperture and uploaded to my MobileMe Gallery some time ago. Since upgrading to version 3 it seems that the gallery has lost its link with the Aperture Album. The MobileMe gallery shows 'Sync with Aperture' in the info window but the Gallery does not show in the MobileMe Gallery Section of Aperture.
Is there anyway I can re-link the Gallery and Aperture manually?
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c.

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Hi all,
I'm wondering if the 7300 GT is ok with Aperture, should I be prepared to upgrade to Radeon X1900 XT ?
I you have any experience using Aperture with 7300 GT or X1900 XT, what's your feeling ?
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Peloche,
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Sorry, maybe I don't understand, but why do you feel compelled to subscribe to CC if you already have a permanent Lightroom 5 licence?
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I am receiving a Mac Pro 2.66 Friday and adding in 4 GB RAM and 2 500GB HDS, Aperture and Final Cut Studio and a lot of music software. Moving up from a G4 450 DP.
I received a very nice fellowship and will officially begin the project on June 1, continuing until August, 2008. I will be filming in all 92 Indiana counties - mainly nature and historic sites for a few DVD programs for schools in my county. I expect to end up with 30,000 + images when it is all said and done.
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That sounds like a great project.
People have already emphasized the importance of backing up. I can't pile on with any more emphasis. Backup, backup, and backup some more. I have five copies of every RAW file I've ever made across four different disks and DVD's. The DVD's are located in a remote location. I had an issue with my hard drives about three months ago that caused all my hard drives to loose their data--complete loss. If not for my DVD's, I would've lost 30,000 RAW files let alone all the processed images.
I'm working an article on my backup strategy that should be published in the next week or so. If you want, send me an e-mail and I'll give you a link to my site when it's done.
This next article is about file naming. I've been using this same convention for 8 years. It works as well as anything. The other recommendations are also excellent especially the ones about adjusting your convention when sending to clients.
http://www.keiko-ni.com/keikosite/equiptech/digital/filenaming/filename1.html
This final article is about my initial workflow. I am not a "copy the CF card prior to import" kind of guy. Call me gutsy. Metadata and keywords will be your most important friend during a project this size. Being able to quickly get to images for various purposes will be extremely important. To be a high end, high capacity photographer also means being a data manager. It's a fact of life. Secondly, start early and don't get behind keywording. That will only slow you down later. The key to this in Aperture is using the keyboard shortcuts. Learn those. It'll help lost later.
http://www.keiko-ni.com/wordpress/?p=13
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I would like to have them on both.
BTW, I will be buying a new iMac when they are available in a few weeks.
In case that is an issue in having an older model.
The current iMac is about 5 years old.

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when I buy aperture from mac store for 54pounds - can I install on both my mac pro and laptop?

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Aperture [448]
Path:
/Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture
Identifier:
com.apple.Aperture
Version:
3.2.2 (3.2.2)
Build Info:
Aperture-201096000000000~2
App Item ID:
408981426
App External ID: 5333832
Code Type:
X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [125]
Date/Time:
2012-02-24 23:05:55.982 +0000
OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50b)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report:
18654 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:
20
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   20
Anonymous UUID:
244A3A5D-F483-4E17-AFD2-B35CB6B4EBD4
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
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dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
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Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager
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Aperture 2, Stacks and Web Gallery

I have had so many issues with this lately. I shot photos today, picked my favorites and created a web gallery. I then ordered my 40 photos in the web gallery in a very specific order to tell a story.
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2nd. My web gallery has hundreds of photos, mostly ones that I did not want displayed. Also my custom order was lost and I once again had to try to reorganize.
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Scott

I have nearly 9,000 Images on my I Mac and I wish to move them over to a 2TB external hard drive and still be able to access them from Aperture and or iPhoto?

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I have just received my MBP and will be using Aperture to edit my RAW files from a Nikon camera.
I was wondering if Aperture works the same as IPhoto in regards to the library function or do you still use IPhoto to arrange, tag your images etc...
If that is the case how do you do that if you are using RAW files? Does IPhoto recognise RAW images?
I would like to hear your workflow on a MAC.
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Sad to say Richard but you are close but not quite correct. Aperture has a much reduced set of RAW support vs. iPhoto. Of this I can personally attest, but they're both covered on the Apple site.
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Aperture and mobileme = washed out picture after downloading?

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Synced a few albums from Aperture to a few mobileme gallery's so a few friends could download the pictures very easy. One of them asked me why i screwed up the pictures because the all appeared to have a washed out look on his pc.
Tried it myself and it's true.
If i download a picture from the gallery and open in in Xee on my mac it appears to be washed out, in preview it looks ok. On a windows pc in the default picture viewer same result.
Opening the file in photoshop it appears to be ok.
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test album: http://gallery.me.com/reinoutsmit#100099&bgcolor=black&view=grid

Don't fully understand what you are observing in Aperture. For me originals show Adobe RGB, as do the images seen in the MM gallery within Aperture, and as do Downloads from that MM gallery. (I primarily use SmugMug these days, and not MobileMe galleries).
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HELP! Sudden weird behavior in Aperture and MobileMe!

So, I am running the latest version of Aperture and have been successfully publishing many albums to mobileme.
I have several external hard drives connected to my computer, and almost all of my image files in aperture are referenced. Lately I have been importing the images from SD cards directly into the aperture library, editing, then relocating the masters so that i would only store the keepers (i went this route because it was unclear to me whether or not originals were also deleted if i deleted referenced files--the pop up wording seems vague to me). I usually back up the new image files on the harddrives manually, and then back up the aperture library to a vault after every major import. I also wait until I have done this to reformat my sd cards.
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I'm here waiting for anyone who thinks they can help!
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Hi Heather
I was wondering if I was the only one with this problem. Unfortunately I don't have an answer. I'm running Aperture 2 on a MacBook, with my library on an external drive. The problem is increasing; it seems that most (but not all) recent projects are affected, but none that I created before the problem first started.

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