Aperture Trial crashed and now my trial has expired

Question

I have just received my new MacBook Pro and was excited to be able to try the Aperture Trial version. Installation went smoothly, and on first startup I let Aperture import my iPhoto library. However at about 10% of importing, Aperture seemed to have stalled. It did not respond to my input. Even trying to quit it from the dock had no effect. So I used Force Quit.
Now when I try to restart Aperture I get a message that my trial has expired, and I get the option to buy it. I would really be interesting in buying it after a 30-day trial, but not after a 10-minute trial which ended in a crash and a bug that now prevents me from starting up again!
Any similar experiences or possible solutions?

Answer 1

Thanks! I tried your suggestion to delete everything Aperture related from the library, but with no luck. I also installed Aperture on my old 1.8 GHz iMac G5 yesterday, just as a test, and had no problems there (except that that machine is really too slow for Aperture). Then to my surprise, this morning the Aperture trial also worked again on my brand new MacBook Pro.
In hindsight, I think I must have installed the Aperture trial while my system clock was still on Shanghai time (where the MacBook Pro factory is). Yesterday (wednesday) afternoon in Europe, when I was installing, it must already have been thursday morning in China. Then during or after the installation I adjusted the time to Central European time, and the date skipped one day back. So the piece of software that was checking whether the trial was still valid actually noticed that the system date was before the date that the trial began and did not let me start the software again until today! Although I am not quite sure, that's my best theory about what must have happened.
As for the unresponsiveness that caused me to force quit Aperture in the first place, that might have been a mistake as well. In my eagerness to test the new computer I was doing many things at the same time. At the moment I have only 1 GB of RAM in this computer. I would suggest anyone trying out Aperture on a brand new machine to be patient. First make sure all other software and settings are in place, and then take a few hours to run Aperture alone, in order to let it import your images, etc.