Aperture Hanging in Books

I upgraded to Leopard a few weeks ago and was using Time Machine and included Aperture backups while Aperture was running. I've since read that there's a problem with this, so I stopped Time Machine backups of my Aperture Library.
But now, every time I try to edit text on a page of a book, Aperture hangs. If I type 25 characters, for example, it will lag behind... showing one character every 5 MINUTES or so until it catches up with my typing... which would take about two hours for the 25 characters. I have to force quit. I've tried restarting and repairing permissions. No help.
Do I have a corrupt library? If so, what do I do? I have 3 vaults, all created in the last day or two.

Delete Aperture, open App Store > Purchases and download Aperture. This should fix your issue

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Both iPhoto and Aperture hanging up immediately on launch..
Please help in resolving the issues

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Solution to using Aperture for ordering books from other companies?

I am a professional photographer who has been using Photoshop CS3 to design and output books for Shared Ink, WHCC and others. While SharedInk does accept PDF files, they're complicated to construct in just the right format. WHCC will only accept properly-formatted JPEGs.
Of course, Aperture has its own notion of how to generate PDFs.
While Photoshop will open the pages of the PDF as individual JPEGs, it's less than optimal because the JPEGs will end up being re-compressed when they're saved, potentially impacting quality. So my objective was to somehow turn the Aperture PDF directly into JPEGs.
Well, it turns out that the JPEG files are embedded neatly into the PDFs that Aperture creates. And if you're careful, you can cleanly separate the JPEGs themselves into separate files. I found a utility that has a simple Drag & Drop interface which does just that. I haven't tested it extensively, but it worked in my very unscientific test.
So I end up with a folder of JPEG files in the highest possible quality which I can then upload directly to my lab.
Check it out at http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/xpdf-tools-3.dmg
Caveat Emptor! "

StefanGson wrote:
What?
Of course a JPG can include text. Like you can insert text in a picture in photoshop. ANd then save the picture with text as a JPG.
I didn't make myself clear. JPEG files are just pixels. Of course they can contain anything. But the "text" in a JPEG file is not editable as text after it's been saved as a JPEG.
But PDF files are loose containers that can contain pixels (as JPEG, TIFF, or otherwise), text (as actual text with fonts, etc), Postscript objects (like Illustrator files), and even hyperlinks and whatnot.
The reason all this is relevant to Aperture is when Aperture outputs a book, it puts every page into a PDF. If you don't use captions or text, then the page is strictly in JPEG format within the PDF. the Xpdf program can then properly extract it.

Aperture hangs on import from iPhone or camera

Since a few weeks I can't import from my iPhone or digital camera anymore.
If I try to import Photos from my iPhone or camera Aperture hangs forever. The Photos should be imported as referenced ones to a folder on a network share on a Mac OS X Server. This works fine, if the Picture source is i.e. a memory card or a HDD. And it has been working with the iPohne and camera before.
What happens is, that Aperture creates a file like "..importing.IMG0815.JPG" with 0 Bytes in the target folder. And than it hangs.
From this point on there is a permanent network traffic, and reasonable CPU load on both Macs (the kernel_task on the client and the AppleFileServer task on the Server). If I delete the "..importing.IMG0815.JPG" file it is instantly recreated. This continues even if I kill the Aperture application. The only way to stop this is to unmount the Network Volume.
Does anyone has an idea what this may cause?

sizzling badger wrote:
Aperture, Lightroom etc. are all designed to make use of direct import. They are safer than copying your files via the OS tools for the simple reason they access the cards read-only. If you use OS tools to copy then you are accessing the cards read-write which is far more dangerous if something goes wrong.
Culling your images during import saves time and disk space also. Copying your images directly and then importing is a WASTE OF YOUR TIME.
We disagree. Although such apps are indeed "designed" for direct import, my empirical observations since the earliest days of digital imagery have been that interacting indirectly using an app like Aperture is much, much less stable than directly interacting via Finder when properly done. One can peruse literally hundreds of digital image threads including this one to see overwhelming real-world evidence of what I am talking about.

Aperture hangs creating previews

Since installing Leopard (a clean install then Migration Assistant to get my user across) I haven't been able to view slideshows, because Aperture hangs when it tries to create previews. The "Rendering previews for slideshow..." popup appears and it never moves. Clicking "Cancel" has no effect - I have to quit Aperture from the Dock.
As soon as I try to render the previews (and before I quit Aperture) the following message appears in the System log (/var/log/system.log):
Nov 26 09:34:34 mbp17 Aperture[552]: * -[NSLock unlock]: lock (<NSLock: 0x22f174e0> '(null)') unlocked from thread which did not lock it
Nov 26 09:34:34 mbp17 Aperture[552]: * Break on _NSLockError() to debug.
And on at least one occasion the following as well:
Nov 26 09:35:36 mbp17 Aperture[552]: * -[NSLock dealloc]: lock (<NSLock: 0x22f174e0> '(null)') deallocated while still in use
Nov 26 09:35:36 mbp17 Aperture[552]: * Break on _NSLockError() to debug.
I've tried all the obvious things, including removing preferences (plus removing all preferences, not just Aperture preferences), starting with a new Aperture library, reinstalling Aperture, and the only thing that worked was creating a new user that did nothing except Aperture. So it's some combination of Aperture, Leopard, and my user account.
Apple support was no help at all. They suggested it was probably a user preference somewhere and told me to recreate my user from scratch. That's a huge job, so I resisted it for a long time. But eventually I decided to bite the bullet and did so. It took many hours to complete the task. I tried it again immediately after recreating the user and it worked, but when I got everything else back working again such as Mail, calendar etc, I found it was failing again. This was not migrating the user, either, it was reinstalling everything and recreating preferences (with few exceptions - I copied over ~/Library/Mail, for example).
This is extremely annoying! Anyone else seen anything similar?
Allan

anpacker wrote:
...I haven't been able to view slideshows, because Aperture hangs when it tries to create previews. The "Rendering previews for slideshow..." popup appears and it never moves. Clicking "Cancel" has no effect - I have to quit Aperture from the Dock...
hi, allen
have you repaired permissions in safe mode and then restart osx and aperture?
http://www.victorfoto.com/etutorialsvf/eosx_vf/e_osx_t_rdp_vf/e_osx_trdpvf.html
victor

Aperture hangs on imports and other stability issues

My aperture will hang on imports, does not like me to do anything else at all when importing, lest it hang and if it hangs once and I force quit I have to restart the system to make it work again. I have had 5 crashes today and really PO'd. This is 1.5.6 and I am running 10.5.5.

Have you done anything to the files before importing them? In particular I'm thinking about giving them keywords through Bridge or LightRoom?
I have experienced Aperture hanging until force quit if I had done keywording to the (in my case) DNG's via Bridge / LightRoom prior to importing them into Aperture.
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Paul K

IPhoto vs Aperture for new Book

I recently purchased Aperture and in the past I have made 3 books in iPhoto.
I am creating a new book and I looked at both Aperture and iPhoto and, to me, it seems that iPhoto is much easier and presented in a cleaner way.
Aperture does seem to offer more layout possibilities.
The new book is not a "for sale" item just a family and friends fun book.
Any thoughts on the ease and quality of the two applications for my needs.
And the benefits and pitfalls of each of the Apps.
Thanks
Greg

The benefits and pitfalls are just the inverse of each other.
iPhoto is easier, Aperture is more complex, iPhoto is less flexible, Aperture is more so. That's pretty much it in a nutshell.
Only you can know how much time and effort you want to put into the project, how much learning you want to do.
Regards
TD

FOUND A FIX for Aperture/iLife '08 printing (aperture w/ new books, etc)

Albeit a temporary fix... here it is.
You'll need iLife '08 and a PDF viewer from which you can save jpgs or tiffs at or greater than 200dpi, 300dpi preferred.
I created a book in Aperture, exported it as a PDF through the print function, then opened it in Acrobat Professional (not your only choice for PDF software though), re-saved the PDF as JPEGs, and then imported them into iPhoto '08. Once in, I created a completely blank book and used the JPEGs as background images. Now you have an exact duplicate of the page layout from Aperture, that you were able to custom design and manipulate, in a fancy new iLife '08 book.
Lord knows I'll probably get burned in a few weeks when 1.5.5 comes out and fixes the issue, since I had to go out and buy iLife, but for now I can produce quality books for my clients and still use Aperture.
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Hello All,
I can no longer get Aperture to run on my MBP. I upgraded to Leopard a couple of weeks ago and had Aperture 1.56 running sucessfully for 2 weeks or so. Then it started hanging up at the startup screen. I am not sure what to do next, possibly reinstall Aperture. Not sure. Does any one have any thoughts where to go next.
The Console showed the following message:
12/28/07 1:12:16 PM Aperture[368] * Assertion failure in -[NSMenuItem initWithTitle:action:keyEquivalent:], /SourceCache/AppKit/AppKit-949/Menus.subproj/NSMenuItem.m:182
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DickB

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SQLITE_ERROR message; Aperture hangs

Getting the following error message (visible in Console) regularly now. I recently imported a large batch of photos (over 1,500) and edited many of them. Aperture would periodically crash and hang while editing. Now I've finally finished the editing and am backing up to a vault; Aperture appears to have hung part way through the backup and for the last three hours has been regularly reporting the following (every ten seconds):
6/14/10 10:11:09 AM Aperture[172] NSExceptionHandler has recorded the following exception:
SQLITE_ERROR -- sqlite3_step
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Can I reprint either iphoto or aperture books I made several years ago without recreating the book?

Can I reprint either iphoto or aperture books I made several years ago without recreating the book?
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See the Apple Photo Services: Product line details for books, cards, and calendars
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Aperture 3.5.1 hangs on MacOS 10.9.2 after importing pictures from the iPhone.
All pictures are in fact imported, but the process is never finished and the dialog, if I want to delete the imported originals never pops up.
When I unplug the iPhone, I won't get an error alert. I also can't quit the application. It looks like hanging in an endless loop.
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matthias

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Have you installed the most recent iTunes update? It is supposed to fix problems with syncing to devices.
If none of the applications can import from your iPhone, I would try to troubleshoot the phone:
Try the three R's - Restart, Reset, Restore
:http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3281

Aperture hangs at Import (resolution)

At some point, every time I tried to import from any location, Aperture would hang, and I would have to Force Quit. The log files generated showed that a jpeg was corrupt, but even with an empty library I could get no further than showing the import pane on the left.
Nothing worked - trashing Aperture, rebuilding the catalog, nada. I finally was able to get things going again by deleting the prefs file: user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Aperture.plist
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