Aperture cannot access this library" followed by "To use this library, make sure its file permissions are set correctly."
Hi,
I am completely confused. I use aperture everyday and today when I tried to open it I got the following message " aperture cannot access this library" then it said to use this library , make sure its file permissions are set correctly"
So i read a bunch of posts and opened aperture while holding down option and command and repaired the file permissions. it did nothing, when I tried to open aperture I received the same message. So then i tried opening it while holding down just the option key. This brought up all of my libraries but when I chose the library i use daily the same message came up.
Does anyone know how to fix this and/ or why it is happening?
Thank you
No idea how to check the format, not familiar with Drobo products. Does the drive show up in Disk Utility? If so you should be able to see how it is formatted there.
How long has this setup been in use?
Aperture libraries have to be on locally connected drives formatted as OS Extended as per Apple (see Format external drives to Mac OS Extended before using with Aperture for example). While Aperture may work with other setups there is always the possibility that the library will become unusable at any point in time with no warning.
Try to find out the format of the drive and post back. Maybe something can be done but from the error messages you are getting I'm thinking the best course of action will be to restore from backups onto a correctly formatted drive.
regards
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So I cannot even access the application. It was working fine yesterday and today I get this error message:
To use this library, make sure its file permissions are set correctly.
I have changed nothing. All the pictures are there on the computer. Help?!Reboot. Close any programs which open at start-up. Run Disk Utility (you can type this in the Spotlight search field at the right end of your Menubar).
In Disk Utility, select your drive from the list on the left, and click "Repair Disk Permissions". This will take a few minutes, but should be less than ten.
Reboot.
Try to open your Library in Aperture. What happens? -
Have been using fine up until Wednesday this week and suddenly cannot open file at all.
I have around 10K images on drive but file size for library says 0bytes. When I use Alt to open it shows file and shows correct number of versions and originals but then gives the error re permissions when trying to open.
Have tried the repaire permissions, repair database and rebuild database all give same error about permissions and fail to start.
HELP!
Regards
James.I think I set it to keep the images in the library not referenced but the drive did contain many pictures before I started using Aperture so i need to bring them into the library.
How large is your library now, and how much space can you afford for your Aperture library on your internal drive?
Or do you have a second exernal drive, that you could format MacOS Extended (journaled) to be able to temporarily host your Aperture library?
Do you need the "Tuxera NTFS" formatting on your external drive to share image files with other systems, or would it be an option to reformat that drive?
If you are more comfortable with a managed ibrary, by all means keep the library managed. Only it needs to be on a drive formtated MacOS X Extended (Journaled). It could be your inernal drive, if you have enough space or a locally connected external drive. Connect it to the fastest port you have; Firewire, or Thnderbolt, a fast USB port.
Move the library there, then import the images, that you now have in separate folders on your externa drive. To prevent Aperture from importing duplicates, enable the option "Do not import Duplicates" in the import panel. If you are lucky, Aperture will recognize many of the duplicates. if you have not changed the filenames.
I have to sign off for the next couple of hours, but will look in later.
Regards
Léonie -
I repaired the permissions in aperture first aid. I notice my short user name has changed from the one before the mavericks upgrade.
I notice my short user name has changed from the one before the mavericks upgrade.
Then you created a new user account when upgrading. How did you upgrade? Did erase the system and set up your mac completely new? If your short user name has changed, you are no longer the owner of your Aperture library, if it ha been created with your old user name.
I repaired the permissions in aperture first aid.
And after repairing the permissions you can still not access it?
Where is the library located? On an external drive or in your Home folder? -
I have inadvertently changed a file permission setting. When opening Aperture I get the following; "Aperture cannot access this library. To use this library make sure it's file permissions are set correctly". I am an old dude new to Mac OS. Looked in settings but have no idea how to allow file sharing to myself. I have been using Aperture actively for 6 weeks. I'm the only one using this Mac. What up?
Back up all data now.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. You can demote it back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:20 ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ 2> /dev/null
Be sure to select the whole line by triple-clicking anywhere in it. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. You don't need to post the warning. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2
Boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select Utilities ▹ Terminal from the menu bar. A text window opens.
In the Terminal window, type this:
resetpassword
That's one word with no spaces. Then press return. A Reset Password window opens. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select ▹ Restart from the menu bar. -
Error Message - "Aperture cannot access this library"
I'm using OS 10.5.7 and Aperture 2.1.3. I recently had an error message pop-up when I try to start Aperture that says, "Aperture cannot access this library. To use this library, make sure its file permissions are set correctly." Unfortunately, I can't seem to open up my library. Any ideas how to fix this or what is wrong? Thanks
Hello,
attached I would like to report how the problem solved.
1. I had 63 Minute Call to Apple Support and we are tring some things. Finally I Spend spend 1 day for testing.
2. Testing procedure:
A) I exported each project step by step
B) Than I deleted all appr. 50 projects in Aperture Library.
C) After that I Imported each project to Aperture back.
Result: 2 Project was corrupted, one of it was going well after export/import procedure how ever but the second ones error was constant appearing if I try to import it. The project consisting of 512 jpg files in total appr. 500MB.
The solution for this project:
I moved this jpg´s to waste bin und imported it from waste bin to Aperture again into a new project. Than I tested it again(Export/import) and it was fine.
For final check I delete my Aperture backup und start a new one.
Than start a compleate restoring from that last backup.
Every thing was fine, all project include albums or books are ok.
The pictures in the corrupted project was not imported by Aperture, they was created on a PC system(XP). Maybe that was the reason for the problem.
A friend sad, that windows use not the agreed standard for jpg´s.
I don´t know. So I´m happy all my books are back that is imported for a wedding photographer.
Have fun
bernhard66 -
The hard drive on my MacBookPro recently crashed. The Apple store replaced it. Since then I can't open iphoto. It asks to rebuild library; when I click yes, I get: "Aperture cannot access this library; reset permissions." I don't own Aperture! Any thoughts on how I can rebuild the iphoto library? Currently I can't even get into it.
Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Triple-click the following line to select it. Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1 or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
▹ Restart
from the menu bar. -
when i ask for Authorizeed computer i got the message " make sure your computer' date is set correctly and that it accepts cookies from the itunes stores " how can i solve this problem please .
Ok, so I just worked out that itunes communicates through your browser so it's a cookie in the browser not PC direct that fixes this. Bit of a convoluted route but for me it was IE>Internet setting>privacy>sites, then allow all activity from apple.com/itunes.
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Users cannot access Document Library althouth they have Edit permissions
Hello,
I have a strange SharePoint 2013 case, or at least it's strange to me.
Users from the company cannot access a Document Library although I've granted them Edit permissions. The Inheritance from the parent have been broken, all inherited groups have been removed and all users have unique permissions to this library. Here is the
setup:
Web App -> Sub Site A -> Sub Site B -> Sub Site C -> Sub Site D -> Library
So these users have Read access from the Web App down to Sub Site B. They cannot see Sub Site C and D because these sites are also with broken inheritance and unique permissions. But I've granted Edit permissions for these users to the Library.
If I assign View permissions for these users to the Sub Site D then they can upload and edit documents in the library, but still cannot see Sub Site C which was my intention anyway. Again i don't want them to see Sub Site D either, but if i remove the View
permissions they can't access the library.
On SP 2010 this was not an issue. I'm not sure if here the permissions are different or not, but I've never seen such issue before.
Any ideas will be much appreciated. I hope the explanation is good enough to describe the issue.
Many Thanks in advance.
IvoHi Ivaylo,
According to your description, my understanding is that the user with only Edit permission on the library cannot access the library.
I recommend to check if the Limited-access user permission lockdown mode feature is deactivated in root site.
If it is not, deactivate it and then test to see if the issue still occurs.
To deactivate the feature, please go to the root site > Site Settings > Site collection features > deactivate Limited-access user permission lockdown mode.
Best regards.
Thanks
Victoria Xia
TechNet Community Support -
Aperture cannot access this library, aperture cannot access this library
I received this message today when I tried to open the aperture 3. The library is on an external LaCie hard disk plugged into the imac
Andrew,
are you the owner of the files on your LaCie drive? If not, I'd try to reset the owner:
First check your current user id: Open a Terminal window:
Enter:
echo $UID
On my system this will print : 502
Then check the UID associated with your La Cie files:
Enter into the Terminal window:
ls -an
then add a "space", then drag the icon of your La Cie drive from the Finder to the Terminal, to enter the path to the drive, hit "return".
This should print listing similar to this: and the second column should correspond to your UID.
bash-3.2$ ls -an /Volumes/HermioneMedia
total 41240
drwxrwxr-x@ 45 502 20 1598 5 Aug 09:43 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 5 0 80 170 11 Aug 16:09 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 502 20 6148 11 Aug 14:04 .DS_Store
d--x--x--x 8 502 20 272 29 Jul 10:55 .DocumentRevisions-V100
drwx------ 5 502 20 170 5 Mai 16:53 .Spotlight-V100
drwxrwxrwt@ 5 502 20 170 28 Jul 15:31 .TemporaryItems
d-wx-wx-wt 3 502 20 102 11 Aug 16:09 .Trashes
If you see a different number, try to change the ownership:
Type:
sudo chown -R $UID
then again add a "space", then drag the icon of your La Cie drive from the Finder to the Terminal, to enter the path to the drive, hit "return". You will have to authorize as administrator, so double check what you typed. This will set the user id of all files on your drive to your own user id.
Regards
Léonie
PS: you may want to look in the Mountain Lion Forum as well, for example:
Permissions problem - unable to write to external drive
there seems to be a similar problem discussed, and I hope we will see answers there soon. -
"Aperture Cannot Access This Library"
Hi folks,
I have 8 or so libraries on a USB-connected drive and 1 library on my internal iMac drive.
When I run Aperture, it opens the latter fine, but when I attempt to switch libraries, I get the Subject error along with a message to check permissions.
Permissions on the former are identical to the latter.
I have tried OPT-COMMAND opening Aperture to attempt a file-permission repair, but that only works against the latter library - the one that's ok. I.e., there's no option to ask it to repair other libraries that are not the current one it knows about.
Any suggestions welcome.
ThanksWhen I run Aperture, it opens the latter fine, but when I attempt to switch libraries, I get the Subject error along with a message to check permissions.
Please post the exact error message.
How is the USB drive formatted? You can see the formatting in the "File > Get Info" panel, if you select the drive in the Finder. The format should be "Mac OS X (Journaled)" extended.
Also set the "Ignore Ownership on this volume" flag.
Can you open the Aperture libraries in question, if you drag them from your external drive to your internal disk?
Regards
Léonie -
Help! Upgraded to 3.2. I receive this message, "Aperture cannot access this library."
How can I possibly make changes if Aperture doesn't launch?
Have you tried to see if you can run the Troubleshooting Basics?
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Aperture won't start up (cannot access this library)
When I try to open Aperture I am getting a message straight away saying:
*Aperture cannot access this library*
+To use this library, make sure its file permissions are set correctly.+
I cannot find a way to do this. I have restored the disk permissions but that hasn't helped.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
ChrisThanks for the help guys.
I had already done the Get Info idea with no luck.
I ran the Consistency Check for a good 24 hours, in which time it never got above 75% and didn't seem to be doing much. Following other forum posts I quit that and ran the 'Rebuild Library' function from the same menu. After an hour or so this seemed to have done the trick and the program had launched. I then did Consistency Check as well to be on the safe side, which it did a lot faster. Everything now seems good.
Thanks again.
Chris -
Tried to update my itunes and it says "iTunes installed incorrectly" now i cannot access my library
tried to update itunes and it says after download "iTunes installed incorrectly" now I cannot access my library.....HELP!!
Go to Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs (Win XP) or Programs and Features (later)
Remove all of these items in the following order:
iTunes
Apple Software Update
Apple Mobile Device Support (if this won't uninstall move on to the next item)
Bonjour
Apple Application Support
Reboot, download iTunes, then reinstall, either using an account with administrative rights, or right-clicking the downloaded installer and selecting Run as Administrator.
The uninstall and reinstall process will preserve your iTunes library and settings, but ideally you would back up the library and your other important personal documents and data on a regular basis. See this user tip for a suggested technique.
Please note:
Some users may need to follow all the steps in whichever of the following support documents applies to their system. These include some additional manual file and folder deletions not mentioned above.
HT1925: Removing and Reinstalling iTunes for Windows XP
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tt2 -
The version of GroupWise you are using cannot access this post office
I built a new Server and added it to my PCSD Tree. The new server name is
GroupWise and has an IP Address of 10.10.0.13.
I followed the GroupWise 7 Installation Guide and installed GroupWise to
this server. At no point did I find any place to enter the GroupWise
License.
During the install I discovered that 4 of my long time employees were not
able to be assigned to this new GroupWise server. It appears that a one
time (Long time ago) these 4 employees were part of an old GroupWise Mail
server that must have been removed. I can not find any reference to this
old GroupWise server. My thought is to delete the accounts for there 4
users and recreate the accounts.
However the larger problem is this: I can not login to the GroupWise
Server. Below are two screen shots of what I’m getting when I
launch the GroupWise 7 Client. When I look at the .NLM loaded on the
Server for GroupWise MTA 7.0 it shows Domain Total=1 Closed=0, Post
Offices Total=1 Closed=1, Gateways Total=0 Closed=0.
On the Client, when I launch GroupWise, The Novell GroupWise Startup has a
message in the message window “The version of GroupWise you are
using cannot access this post office”. Then after clicking OK three
times, the following message appears on the screen “GroupWise did
not initialize successfully, Please run GroupWise Setup, or contact your
system administrator. Unspecified error OLE Error 80004005*During the install I discovered that 4 of my long time employees were not
able to be assigned to this new GroupWise server. It appears that a one
time (Long time ago) these 4 employees were part of an old GroupWise Mail
server that must have been removed. I can not find any reference to this
old GroupWise server. My thought is to delete the accounts for there 4
users and recreate the accounts.
**You need to disassociate these four NDS users from any GW attributes.
Right-click each user in C1, GroupWise Utilities->GW / eDirectory
Association->Disassociate GroupWise Attributes.
*** When I do as instructed I get the following error:
[username] is missing the following attribute: NGW: Post Office
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*GroupWise MTA 7.0 it shows Domain Total=1 Closed=0, Post
Offices Total=1 Closed=1, Gateways Total=0 Closed=0.
**If the post office is closed, you need to determine why this is. On the
MTA, hit F10, Configuration Status, highlight your PO and hit enter,
select details, then look at the last closure reason.
*** Last Closure Reason= Missing or incomplete address information
[ When I installed GroupWise, I wanted all the e-mail to be stored on the
EMAIL Volume. During the install, I Changed the Install Directory to
\Groupwiseemail. After the install I have two directories in this volume.
One called DOMAIN and the other called PCAM (PCAM is name of my domain).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*On the Client, when I launch GroupWise, The Novell GroupWise Startup has
a message in the message window 'The version of GroupWise you are
using cannot access this post office'.
**What version of GroupWise is on the server and what version client are
you
using? Also, if you pull up the properties of both the domain and post
office in C1 what is the database version listed as?
*** I installed GroupWise 7 both Server and Client. I'm thinking this is
due to the Post Office being closed. I only have 1 Post Office.
Thank You;
Lewis
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