Aperture Starts and ...

Starting about two weeks ago, Aperture starts, the splash screen comes up (and will not go away unless you select about and then click on new splash screen) and most menu items are gray. No images appear. Checking preferences and changing them to my external LaCie (1TB) gives no relief. Double clicking on the library opens Aperture with the same results. Restore from vault works to create a new library, but no change in operation. The library package appears fine (all projects, etc. show when I open library as package). The library is 191GB (as it was prior to failure). I cannot isolate any event that caused this. Any suggestions or opinions are welcomed. My next option is to by Lightroom.

R406 wrote:
I had already reinstalled to no avail. I created a new user and was amazed that it worked ... until I pointed it to the library of my images. It then reverted back to non functionality. I copied the library and created a new user, no luck.
So it sounds like it is actually failing, originally, because it can't access your library.
I assume the library is on an external drive - if it is, as a further test you could 'ignore ownerships on this volume' for that drive, and see if it then works...

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