Aperture loses focus, even in other programs
I developed a new problem over the past week or so. I'll be typing along in any program when it suddenly loses focus. I can click to re-establish but, once it starts. it happens every 10-15 seconds. I think I've isolated the issue to Aperture. Once I quit Aperture, the problem seems to stop. When I'm using Aperture, it's begun acting strangely: multiple clicks required to select photos, shift-click to get a range doesn't always work, right-click menus pop up then disappear or don't contain all items expected (e.g., Export only shows "Project as new library" as a sub).
I'm up to date on Yosemite (10.10.1) and Aperture (3.6 500021000000000.3 RAW 6.02/Build 768.6), and I'm struggling to key the start of this phenomenon to any particular update (assuming Aperture is winding down and Photos will come soon?) I haven't tried to reinstall Aperture, although I did have a repair situation a couple of weeks ago when I had a white screen of death in OS X.
Has anyone experienced this? Any suggestions beyond repair/rebuild? I've been exporting originals for a while with the expectation of changes ahead and will continue with that as best I can...
So, I had some time (and accumulated frustration) to check on this further, with no positive results.
I thought I might need to repair or rebuild my Aperture database. I tried following the instructions in the Help file (Control-Command-Click on Aperture database in Finder) but that did not yield the dialog to repair/rebuild, just launched Aperture.
I used Activity Monitor to try to see what was running, and I seem to get a process called "ReportCrash" that cycles into the CPU use column every time the focus changes. But, I haven't gotten the typical "Program has crashed. Do you want to send a report?" dialog. It happens every 3-10 seconds, and only happens when Aperture is open. I haven't tried reinstalling Aperture yet because I haven't had a chance to dig out installation disk stuff.
I may try to cross-post this to a Yosemite forum to see if it's just coincidence that it happens when Aperture is running.
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