Aperture Library Very Slow Copy to LaCie Thunderbolt Drive

Just installed new LaCie Thunderbolt drive and copying various media files to it. Music and video files copied like a rocket. My Aperture folder is copying as slow as molasses. Right now it says 2 days to copy 211GB. Any help would be appreciated.

Sorry, I misread Mtn Ed's last note. My USB2 was stalling out at 2-3 MB per second. Quite a bit slower than the stated Thunderbolt rate to say the least. There is a portion of the Aperture Library that copies at a very slow speed, but after an hour or so it kicks back up to normal file transfer rates. Finder was originally estimating over 20 hours for the copy to complete. Now the total elapsed time will be about 3 hours for 350GB.

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Help!- aperture library disappeared after copy

I'm screwed...After a long holiday with my macbook and my aperture (3.0) library (90GB) on an external drive I finally get home and decide to copy the library onto my iMac (pictured folder). I always keep a copy in my external drive as a backup and for macbook use (internal drive too small).
Well, I connect the drive to my iMac, and try replacing the aperture library. Takes very long thinking, so I decide to delete the old aperture library on my iMac and just do a simple copy. Everything seems fine, it starts and says it has 50 minutes to go...so I leave for dinner. An hour later I come back and not only had the aperture library not been copied (only 700 mb or so of it), but the source isn't there either! i.e. it disappeared from my external drive!!
I though it might be a database problem, but mac os x says I have 90 GB more free space on my external drive, so the aperture library seems to have been deleted!
HELP HELP HELP....all of my photography is in there and I cannot believe I have lost everything just by trying to copy it!
thanks for any suggestions!

Alaninnorway wrote:
Yes, I must agree. I have exactly the same problem. Come on Apple - do not invite us to 30 day free trial and give us this hassle for the weekend.
Any help appreciated.
The 30 day free trial cannot convert an Aperture 2 library.
Using the trial you can can only import into a new Aperture 3 library, and should not have any of these conversion issues.
We converted 6 workstations this weekend, specifically did not convert the imaging as that can be done in the future on an as-needed basis.
All of the libraries reside on disks that are no more than 40% full, for performance reasons.
The first library we converted was 500GB and at about 2.5 hours it froze at about 58%. I trashed the partial conversion and started over with a clean copy. This time, in Aperture 2 I did a Library rebuild before I converted. After this the conversion ran perfectly, in about 4 hours.
I ended up with a new file called Aperture Library, and another file called Aperture Library_Original. I found that this is the way the conversion is designed if you have the diskspace for 2 full Libraries. If you do not, it will delete the original after the conversion.
At any rate before converting run a rebuild in Aperture 2, and then make a backup of that library. You will then have a very clean original should anything happen in the conversion.
I am happy to say we followed the rebuild and backup on the other 5 Libraries, ranging in size from 500GB to 1.2 TB, and all the other conversions went smoothly.
The key is have plenty of diskspace available, more than double the size of your library, and Aperture will leave an Aperture Library_Original which can still be opened in A2.
Sincerely,
K.J. Doyle

LR3 can't find files after copying my previous hard drive to a new Lacie Thunderbolt drive

I transferred my LR3 files from my WD hard drive to my new Lacie Thunderbolt drive and now I can only get the preview and it says the file is missing. Is there a setting I need to change that I am not aware of?

You have moved your image files outside of Lr (via your OS) and now Lr has lost the connection to your images. This happens every time you move images outside of Lr. Lr stores in its catalog - among all the other things - also the location of your images, and if the location stored in the catalog is different than the situation onyour hard drive you get the "missing" file message. "Missing" means that Lr does not "know" where your images are.
You have to point Lr to the location of your image files to fix the broken link.
In the Grid View (left side) in the folders panel you should see question marks in front of the folder names. That is Lr's indication that the link to the folders is broken.
Go to the top-most folder in the hierarchy of the folders that show the question mark and right-click it (click with the right-hand button of you rmouse). Select <Find missing folder> in the fly-out menu, navigate to the coresponding folder on your LaCie and click on it. Lr will then also find the sub-folders under that folder on idt own - provided that you have not changed the folder names or the folder structure.
If you have done that you have to "point" Lr to each folder individually with the procedure described above.
BTW you will also get the "missing" message when you open Lr but your external drive is not switched on.
WW

Aperture Conversion - My wife is converting from iPhoto to Aperture due to large library ( 33,000 photos, 109GB). Performance-wise, is it better to convert to Aperture library and leave on the 250GB internal drive or convert and store externally?

My wife is converting from iPhoto to Aperture due to large library ( 33,000 photos, 109GB). Performance-wise, is it better to convert to Aperture library and leave on the 250GB internal drive or convert and store externally?

You are welcome.
convert and store externally?
What versions of iPhoto and Aperture is your wife using? With both iPhoto 9.3 or later and Aperture 3.3 or later she simply could open her iPhoto library in Aperture and be done, since these versions are using a unified library format.
Aperture 3.3: Using a unified photo library with iPhoto and Aperture

Lacie Thunderbolt drive able to be encrypted?

Hi, I have got a 2TB Lacie Thunderbolt drive (great little thing!) But since I use it for large documents that I need when on the road I usually do format the external drives encrypted, Since sensitive data is on there and in hotels always is a risk that something gets stolen.I used PGP before Lion and was happy when I was able to retire it with Lion. My question is: I don't see a possibility to encrypt the raid here, do I miss something?
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Very slow copy and rm speeds

I've seen other postings about slow copy processes upon upgrading to Snow Leopard. However, none of the replies seem to address the situations I am experiencing. First, copy times between my MacBook Pro (2 Ghz, 2GB, 100GBHD, 15" - the first MBP introduced), and external USB2 Lacie HD have become very slow (1 hour for 4-6 files totalling ~4GB). Curiously, sometimes the same size transfer occurs in 3-4 minutes. I recently upgraded to SL from Tiger, and the Tiger times were in the 3-4 minute envelop. The external HD is a 1TB Poulton Lacie, with over half the disc free. My MBP HD has about 20GB free, and only the Finder, mail, occaisionally xcode, and occaisionally a browser, (either Safari or Firefox) are running during the transfer. The same sometimes occurs with only the Finder and the activity monitor running. The USB is connected directly to the MBP. So, in summary, the ext HD is directly connected, half empty, there is room on the internal HD, and the memory is not particularly burdened with other processes. The activity monitor slows less than half the CPU capability being used.
Secondly, another problem occurs using the unix secure erase, rm -Pr. It is very slow since upgrading to SL from Tiger. The finder's secure erase is too slow to use.
Any thoughts about why on either? Right now, I'm wishing that I stayed with Tiger. Thanks.

I suggest looking at your logs in Console.app to see if anything unusual is happening during the long file copies.
The SMART status isn't that useful. If it says the drive is dead, the drive it dead. If it says the drive is "verified", the drive could still be dead. A good indicator of this is if file copies take an hour instead of 3 minutes.
Is this the original hard drive in that machine? If so, I'm surprised it has made it this long. Notebook hard drives typically start failing at three years of age. You might not notice it until you do a major reoriganization of your files' organization on the disk - such as installing a new operating system.
I compared Finder's secure erase with rm and they seem more or less equivalent.
I think your internal hard drive is just failing. That's all.

Very slow network transfer (AFP, thunderbolt, nas, gigabit, lan, lion)

Hi,
When copying large files (100GB) from my macbook air to my Qnap NAS the transfer is very slow (100kB/s). It becomes immediately much faster (10MB/s) when I lock my session.
The MBA is connected via the gigabit port of the thundrbold display and a gigabit switch to the gigabit port of the NAS.
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Again, sincere thanks for your time and I'll tag the post as answered because for all intents and purposes you answered my question very well. Unfortunately, this Mac just doesn't like me and I don't think I'll be spending money on one anytime soon.

Aperture go VERY SLOW when

Hi, i've noticed that when i make changes in a photo....after using the zoom tool....aperture go VERY VERY SLOOOOOOW
If i switch again on "master file" aperture come back to go faster
WHY?? it's incredible! i work ONLY with modified photo....and i must go like a turtle? aperture 1.5.6. doesn't have this problem!

Aperture 2 is a Major Disappointment So far.
On a MacPro Quad 3.0, 7GB Ram,1TB storage nearly every adjustment results in:
1. a pause where NOTHING happens 1-2 secs. (if I've clicked in 2 or 3 clicks of saturation or whatever)
2.the BEACH BALL spins 2-10 sec
3. the adjustment clicks in.
The Loupe Tool is UNUSABLE because of the same behavior, only worse.
Aperture is a brilliant program, which I very much want to use. It is not my intent to bash the program,in fact I have been hoping that I've been doing something wrong.
But the more I look, the more similar posts I find.
By way of background, the files I have been editing (with wonderful results) came from an import of 55 files from a Canon 1Ds Mk III -aprox. 25mb each. My total aperture library at this point is only 40 or 50 gigs.
I would be most relieved (and apologetic) if the slowness is due to my ineptitude with the interface.
To that end I have posted here and on APUG. (I initially suspected my 7300 video card was to blame, and would replace it instantly - or add a second one, since the new 8800GT is not backward compatible with my machine)
I haven't yet received any answers to those posts.
If you have an Idea, please don't be shy, the great probability is that you are smarter than I am.
BTW Im running 10.5.2, installed ProApp 1 & 2 ,Graphics, Installed A2 from disk, allowed it to rebuild my 1.5.6 library and didn't install the demo.
Other Photo apps installed include PS CS3, Lightroom,DXO, and they run Perfectly.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Michael

Aperture running VERY SLOW

I have a Mac Pro with 12 GB memory. My Aperture library is ~500 GB with ~89,500 photos. It took Aperture 3 overnight to convert my Aperture 2 library, hung itself at 69% completion, then took > 12 hours to process "faces". Nothing else was running on my Mac Pro during this time. It was using at least 8 GB of memory during the processes. Memory hog? Wow. What are you folks doing with a less beefy Mac? I won't even bring this beast near my MacBookPro.

I thought you may be interested in my experiences, as I consider myself a "normal" professional user, with normal kit and normal work patterns.
First, my kit. I use a Macbook Pro 17" 2.4GHz, 2Gb RAM, running Snow Leopard. My Aperture library is 300Gb in size on a 1Tb drive. The vault is on an identical drive, and they are all connected by Firewire 800. I honestly think this is a typical setup for a average pro photographer in the real world who isn't Annie Liebowitz. I have used Aperture 2 since it came out, and am really impressed with it. Means I hardly ever use PS now!
And now, the update...
I followed the instructions, installed, and restarted. I got the "Update your Library" message, and clicked OK. The bar progressed its stately way, and around 48 HOURS later, it reached the end. Through the whole process, I kept Activity Monitor running, and I can see why people think their machine has frozen. But it hasn't, it's just working away and swapping files.
SO, I thought that was that. Did a bit of work, fired up Aperture again, and got the spinning "Processing..." indicator. Aperture works, albeit very sluggishly, so I opened the Activity window in Aperture, and it said "Processing Library"! Haven't I just spent 48 hours doing that??? SO... 60 hours later, it finishes that, and Aperture now works as I would expect. Now the sensible thing to do is that having checked the Library and seen everything is there, is to back it up to the Vault. Now here I am 12 hours later, and it isn't even half done yet! Activity Monitor shows me that it is transferring data. It's certainly still working, one file at a time. I cannot open Aperture's Activity window whilst it is backing up the Library to the Vault.
Observation One: Apple's own observation that "this will take a while, maybe overnight..." is way off in the real world. Have they actually tested this with real photographers in the real world, rather than advertising agency high flyers who have the absolute best of all kit?
Observation Two: When you first open Aperture 3, the prominent buttons on the toolbar for Facebook, Flickr, Faces and Places tell you that Apple has lost the plot. These are all good in iPhoto, aimed at amateurs who love gizmos. Working professionals know where they took the photos, who is in them, and how they want to output them. This approach seems to tell us that the marketing department has overruled common sense in an attempt to get the semi-pros (a polite term for wannabees) to upgrade from iPhoto. In burdening the program with useless amateur features they have made a laughing stock of a useful professional application. In making updating so arcane and lengthy, they have completely shattered the "it just works" mantra. It will take more than a bit of Jobs magic to save Apple from this debacle.
I had it building the Vault this morning. It had got to huge size, much bigger than I would expect, so I Force Quit (nothing else worked) and had a look see. It was building an entirely new Vault, leaving the Ap2 vault untouched. So much for the "Update Vault" command. So I erased the 1Tb disc completely, opened Aperture3 Action window, and set off again.
Now, nine hours later, the Vault is almost exactly three quarters the size of the Library, and the Action shows "Copying Masters". EXCEPT... the progress in the Action window tells me it is only 30% done. Strange but true.
If updating your software brings perfectly normal kit to it's knees, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. One of the reasons I don't use Winders is that I don't expect to pay money to be a beta tester. I never thought I'd live to see the day I wrote that.

Aperture is very slow

Aperture very slow with the latest version and the library on a seperate HD.
How can ths be helped

Before you give up. do one more test, please: At least try to find out if the slowness is caused
by your Aperture library,
your user account settings,
or your system(hardware).
To check if the Aperture library is making problems, create a new one and run Aperture from that library (File -> Switch to library -> Other/New). If everything sems to be o.k. with a new library, you should be able to correct the slowness be importing your old library in to the new one.
To check if your user settings are problematic launch Aperture from a different account. If you can work from a different account without problems report back.
If you cannot run Aperture successfully from a different account on a new library you have a system wide problem, and then try to reinstall Aperture. If that does not help, report back - maybe your system or hardware need trouble shooting,
Regards
Léonie

Why aperture running very slow?

I just installed additional ram and the other day aperture was running extremely slow. The only other application was iphoto.
How much CPU power does aperture require?
thanks.

sharon108 wrote:
After consolidating iPhoto pictures into Aperture Library - and having to rebuild library all photos are shown under "Other" in storage under About this Mac. How do I get photos back into the Photo section. I am sure this is why Aperture is running very slow. Aperture library is on a 500 GB external USB hard drive. Does anyone know how to get photos into the right spot in the storage.
Nothing in my experience would make me draw the same conclusion (that the reporting of your Aperture Library as "Other" is why Aperture is running slowly). You report that your Library is on an external drive connected via USB. Is this USB 2 or USB 3?
The consensus is to put your Library on your fastest (lowest latency and highest throughput) drive. This is almost always your system drive. If your Library does not fit on your system drive, you are advised to move some or all of your Images' Master from the Library to a second drive using "File→Relocate Masters". If you want help with these set-ups, post back.

Aperture Library Size slowing iMac even when Aperture is closed

I recently purchased an iMac 22 quad core running Lion, with all updates. It currently has 12GB of Ram, and 190GB free on the hard drive.
The iMac would load programs like Outlook within a few seconds and was very fast.
I purchased Aperture and migrated about 38,000 images, using the exisitng file structure from my PC. This took about 12 hours yo process, update images, etc...
Even if Aperture is closed, all programs now load much more slowly. Outlook can take 20-30 seconds to open, and lists of email and contacts now take as much as a minute to load.
This is only true for the user account with the Aperture library, as programs for other users seems to work fine.
I tried running disk utilities, restarting machine, but no difference.
Activity monitor shows no unusual memory, CPU or disk activity.
I started a new user account, and all worked fine again...until I again created an aperture library, and again, even if Aperture is not started, everyting else runs slowly.
Is there a file indexing feature that is overwhelmed by the addition of a large aperture library? (Deleting the Aperture library doe snot solve the problem-only startign a new user accountdoes).

dphughes wrote:
...in both cases maintaining referenced files stored outside the catalog/library. The Aperture library is 500% the size of the Lightroom catalog - even with restricted preview sizes and no vault.
If this is true, there must be a logical explanation that is giving Aperture users some benefit for the increased Library size. Sorry been a long time since I looked at Lightroom. Does it store the same size previews and thumbnails as Aperture? Since you are using referenced files and Aperture is using non-destructive edits and even new versions do not create duplicate files (only a new set of pointers to the referenced masters), one would think previews and thumbnails must be handled differently. Since you use both, what could it be?
The Aperture Vault is a separate library than the Aperture Library so having a Vault of course should not impact the size of the Aperture Library.

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I updated my MyBook with Snow Leopard. The (big) problem is that Aperture 2.1.4 is now very slow when I make change to images. CPU usage is very high and Aperture is unusable.
What can I do?
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zemitch - I also use one of the slowest machines capable of running SL, but my your graphics card may be different than mine. But I also store my masters on an external drive and that wasn't the issue.
I found rebuilding the database of Aperture when starting up helps a bit, but the biggest improvement is to do cropping/straightening AFTER the other adjustments. That changes my workflow, but with no crop/straighten, the other adjustments didn't not show the horrible slowdown.
See if that helps you.

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