Aperture unable to write library

After updating to Aperture 3.6 I get a pop up informing me I need to update my library only after I click on upgrade I get another pop up that says:
Unable to write to Library "Aperture Library"
Check that the volume has sufficient free disk space.
I've checked my storage and should have more than enough storage so I am not sure what else to do.

I've checked my storage and should have more than enough storage so I am not sure what else to do.
How much free storage do you have? Upgrading an Aperture library can temporarily need considerably more storage, if your library is large. You should have at least 20GB free storage, better more.
But you probably just upgraded to Yosemite. And the Yosemite upgrade has occasionally caused permission problems. If your Aperture library is in your Home folder, I'd try to repair the permissions and access control lists on your Home folder.
See this post by Linc Davis: Re: Reset Home Folder permissions and ACLs Error

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Hello All,
I'm trying to copy my Aperture 3 Library ( 807 GB ) to another larger internal drive, every time i try a Finder copy of it, it runs untill its copied about 2.67 Gb and then stalls
Unable to move it to the other drive !
Any help would be great
Thanks
Darren

Well this sounds more like a system issue than an Aperture one. To the Finder an Aperture library is just another collection of files and folders.
A few things that might help. First run the Aperture permissions and repair on the library before doing the copy just to insure the integrity of the library . Second make sure the drive your copying to is formatted OS X Extended. Third run Disk Utility and run repair on the destination drive. Fourth close Aperture or at least have it opened on another library when you do the copy. If files are open it might interfere with the copy. Finally If you're still having problems you could try reformatting the destination drive.

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I apologise in advance if this is a little convoluted.
I have a MacBook Pro purchased a little over a year ago and I'm not sure what version of iPhoto is was running. It had a meltdown when I tried to upgrade to Mountain Lion and was ably serviced and returned to me with all my data heroically saved and stored in a shared folder.
When I got it back I upgraded successfully to Mountain Lion and installed all the iPhoto updates. After a false start, and having to reinstall iPhoto I am now running 9.4.3.
I have shifted my old iPhoto Library out of the shared folder and into the Pictures folder where it sits alongside the pretty much empty iPhoto Library created automatically by the install. When I try to open my old Library it says it needs to be upgraded, which makes sense, but immediately after the upgrade commences I get an error message saying 'Unable to write to library "iPhoto Library" Check that you have permission to write to the library directory'. I am not sure what to do from this point.
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Hang on - I had browsed extensively, but it was only after I wrote my question that all the other similar ones popped up on the side bar. I've followed the advice in some of those and it seems to be working. I apologise, but I seem to be unable to delete this discussion.

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I think my iPhoto memory is full. I cannot get in to delete photos. When I open it I get the Unable to write to library iPhoto libraryCheck that you have permission to write to the library directory" and i can't do anything else. I tried alt/cmd first aid and it didn't work.
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Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
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I received this message today when I tried to open the aperture 3. The library is on an external LaCie hard disk plugged into the imac

Andrew,
are you the owner of the files on your LaCie drive? If not, I'd try to reset the owner:
First check your current user id: Open a Terminal window:
Enter:
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On my system this will print : 502
Then check the UID associated with your La Cie files:
Enter into the Terminal window:
   ls -an
then add a "space", then drag the icon of your La Cie drive from the Finder to the Terminal, to enter the path to the drive, hit "return".
This should print listing similar to this: and the second column should correspond to your UID.
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total 41240
drwxrwxr-x@ 45      502 20      1598 5 Aug 09:43 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 5      0    80       170 11 Aug 16:09 ..
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drwx------   5      502 20       170 5 Mai 16:53 .Spotlight-V100
drwxrwxrwt@ 5      502 20       170 28 Jul 15:31 .TemporaryItems
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If you see a different number, try to change the ownership:
Type:
sudo chown -R $UID
then again add a "space", then drag the icon of your La Cie drive from the Finder to the Terminal, to enter the path to the drive, hit "return". You will have to authorize as administrator, so double check what you typed. This will set the user id of all files on your drive to your own user id.
Regards
Léonie
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CD Driver DLL 2.1.3.1
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Gracenote SDK 3.06.0.2770
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Gracenote Submit 3.06.0.2770
Gracenote DSP 3.06.0.2770
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iTunes for Windows: Updating the firmware on your CD or DVD drive - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201852
Having outdated firmware can cause issues using CDs and DVDs with iTunes for Windows. Firmware is a type of software stored in a chip in hardware that can sometimes be updated.Identifying drives and firmware versions
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After following the steps to run CD Diagnostics linked above, look at section three to find out more about your optical drive(s).
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I was using Aperture current version with a library on an external drive connected via airport extreme. I imported about 15 images to an existing project in that library and was editing the images when Aperture closed suddenly. When I try to reopen the same library I get an error message that says Aperture does not have access to that library because the permissions are not correct. But the permissions are set to everyone read write. Aperture opens other libraries on the same drive with the same permission setting.
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3. I tried rebuilding the library using control command Aperture. Same error message.
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to be complete and I can play them from the library.
When I try to update the IPOD I get the error message
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the music ( i.e. half of a CD or purchased album)but
not all of the tunes from an album.
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Hi,
This is developer from Autodesk. We get this compile error from time to time. This is a sporadic failure. We can't find any issue in our own project.
vbc : error BC31019: Unable to write to output file 'D:\Revit\Dev32\RevitAdditions\Source\..\Intermediate\ReleaseWin32\VBNETSnippets\VBNETSnippets.dll': The specified image file did not contain a resource section.
I find a help doc from the website to try some steps to solve this issue.
Error ID: BC31019
To correct this error
Compile the program again to      see if the error recurs.
If the error continues, save      your work and restart Visual Studio.
If the error continues, restart      the computer.
If the error recurs, reinstall      Visual Basic.
If the error persists after      reinstallation, notify Microsoft Product Support Services.
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Visual Studio? Operating system?
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Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.
Since this forum is to discuss: Visual Studio WPF/SL Designer, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit, Developer Documentation and Help
System, and Visual Studio Editor.
Based on your issue, I am not sure what the root cause for this issue. But I suggest you can try some suggestions so that narrow down this issue.
(1) I suggest you try to create a new simple VB project and then check this issue.
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/85s7w197.aspx
>>Unable to write to output file 'D:\Revit\Dev32\RevitAdditions\Source\..\Intermediate\ReleaseWin32\VBNETSnippets\VBNETSnippets.dll': The specified image file did not contain a resource section.
In addition, I suggest you can check if the specified image file in the output folder or you can try to click your image file in the Solution Explorer-> select the Copy to Output Directly properties->Copy always check this issue again.
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Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1 or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
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Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
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Did you ever get a resolution to this issue?
I am having that exact error with a new 512GB SSD from Crucial, in a 15" MBP mid-2010.
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