Aperture vault is freezing at 50% when updating!

I really need help on this! My aperture vault only seems to freeze and the progress bar is stuck at about 50%. I have to force quit aperture when this happens. I tried to make a new vault on a noter external disk. It is no help. I have a very powerful iMac. i7 SSD only one year old. Aperture version 3.3. The external disk is formated Mac OS Extended (journalført - norwegian Lion 10.7.4).
This is bothering me very!!!!
Someone!?

Hi,
If you have followed all the methods mentioned in "Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics" http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US (repair and rebuild etc.) then I would advice to wait and let it work longer. It may seem to get stuck but if you wait (not 5 minutes but 5 or 20 hours) it may go through.
I have already had years issue that taking Vault backup takes tens of hours. I have tried all tricks mentioned in this forum (if you search you should find 20-30 threads about Vault being slow, freezing etc.). Everybody here knows better and says that it should not take that long and will advice you to do this and that, but if you look at those 20-30 threads not even half have resolution for the person who had the issue.
I'm backing up the library instead, from SSD to HD it takes 15 minutes with CCC (block copy including verify), and faster from SSD to SSD. Here is thread I opened to ask if this is OK:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18877353#18877353
Best Regards,
Samuli

Similar Messages

Lenovo T500 freezes at startup when updating to newest ATI driver (Windows 7 RC x64)

Hi I have a big problem with my lenovo T500. I installed Windows 7 RC x64 to my lenovo T500 (2082-53G) and when I install the ATI catalyst beta driver x64 v9.6 from ATI's homepage, my computer freezes at startup (some activity on HD but I can't move my mouse and many processes faile to start at boot). Problem occurs only when win7 beta driver for system interface or ricoh multicard reader is installed because it worked ok until I installed those drivers. I'm not the only one facing this problem: http://www.windows7news.com/forum/windows-7-hardware-help/lenovo-t500-thinkpad-wdm-radeon-3650-drive...
Please help me and thanks in advance!

My T400 did this. I installed Win 7 with integrated, installed the ATI 9.6 suite, and never really tried the discrete for the first few days. Then when I tried it, it would instantly freeze at the Welcome screen and the loading circle would just freeze up.
I uninstalled the device and chose remove driver in device manager, and reinstalled the one from 7's original install and it still did this. Mine would just sit there and freeze up after the welcome screen when using discrete, however integrated always worked. I could only boot up in discrete with Safe Mode with Networking.
I ended up doing a system restore to right after I installed Windows, before I installed the ATI 9.6, (4 days ago, so not too bad for me) and booted straight into discrete. Windows update installed the driver for me, now it works perfectly. I am currently using the discrete card with no freeze up issues in the last day.
If you can't do that, you may have to reformat, just let windows handle the ATI driver itself (boot into discrete while installing) and it should work.
I wish I could get the higher performance drivers, but I assume they will figure this issue out and fix it soon with the next driver release.
Hope that helps you out.

When updating Vaults

When updating Vaults, Aperture creates files on my external hard drive, "Images removed from Aperture Vaults". Does anybody keep these or simply trash them?

Nope. It's just a folder, and stuff that's removed from the Vault goes there as a last chance.
So it goes like this:
Aperture library (backup) ->Vault (deleted from vault ) -> Vault (deleted images)

Aperture 3 - Continuous freezing and library updating

Aperture seems great when it works but is updating my library of 6000 pictures regularly for no apparent reason and this at a speed of one picture every two seconds. The computer is a 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 and should be able to cope but the fans are running at top speed and Aperture is completely blocked. Aperture also freezes and aborts when I try to add music to my slideshows. Can the face recognition function be turned off? It seems to be running most of the time and I was wondering if it could be slowing the processes down. All pictures have been imported in their current (Lightroom based) location.

Faces does require a large overhead - you can disable it in the first tab of the preferences. You may also want to consider changing the prefs for "previews" - turn off "automatically generate previews" and set the preview size to something like quality 6 and set the pixel size to be approxiamately the size of your largest monitor's resolution.

Does aperture vault update just add new photos and information?

I am wondering if the Vault function when updated will just add the new photo(s) and new adjustments or replace the entire vault. I have already copied the entire library as a back-up on a different external. Was planning on just manually updating the files but wanted to try out the Vault. The information is unclear that it only updates NEW photos and info while keeping the vault and just adding.... Any answers would be great. Thanks...

Seattle,
I think I understand your question, but I got a little fuzzy after reading this:
The information is unclear that it only updates NEW photos and info while keeping the vault and just adding....
Anyway, when you perform the "Update Vault" function, Aperture does replace the vault. It updates the vault such that it reflects changes to your library since the last time that vault was updated. With a large library, but only a few changes, the vault update is pretty quick.
nathan

Aperture vault with no mother library - how do i update it?

hello. i had an aperture library i created for a project. when i was done with the project i created an aperture vault on an external drive. but stupidly i deleted the actual library that created the vault.
now i have a 50g vault on a drive and i need to get back into the library.
when i try and open the vault, it says the vault was created with an older version of aperture and it needs to be updated. but i can't update it. i can't figure out how to even get aperture to recognize the vault at all... what to do?

Simple, effective answer: Yes, make copies of your Libraries as back-ups and don't use the Vault feature.
Vaults are no more than a back-up created from within Aperture. (I suspect Apple added this feature on the assumption that users of Aperture did not regularly back up their data.) They can be problematic (they can also be problem-free). If you are comfortable with Finder or with a program such as SuperDuper or CCC, use it and don't bother with Vaults. (That's what I do, and that's what other top posters here do as well.)
As far as data back-up goes, I recommend that all users maintain at all time three copies of their data. A working copy, a copy of the working copy that gets regularly updated (no less than once a day, unless the data is unchanged), and another copy of the working copy that is kept off-site. Never have all three copies in the same physical location (don't bring your off-site copy on-site. Take your on-site copy off-site, and then bring the off-site copy on-site, effectively swapping them while never having all three copies in the same location).
As for making on Library for each project ... it is generally not recommended. One of the great empowerments of Aperture is that it functions as an index of all the work it contains. I have _every photo I've ever taken_ in my personal Library. I can search my entire oevre. Your needs may be different -- and may be different enough that making one Library for each project you do is sensible -- but using separate Libraries takes the power of this global indexing away. (Fwiw, the reasons I can think of having separate Libraries: image security, image quarantine, multiple photographers, and Libraries of images where the photographer is not important.)
HTH,
--Kirby.
(Sent from my magic glass.)

Is it necessary to update Aperture 3.4 to 3.5 when you update to Mavs?

Is it necessary to update Aperture 3.4 to 3.5 when you update to Mavs? Or does it work just the same? I have filters (Color Efex Pro) I don't want to lose with the update to 3.5.
Thanks fellas!
Dante

It depends, on what else you want to use. If you have iPhones or iPads on IOS 7, the shared Photo Streams are not compatible with Aperture 3.4.
Also, if you are using iPhoto with your Aperture libraries, take care not to upgrade iPhoto beyond 9.4.3, or idon't open your Aperture library in iPhoto, else you will not be able to open it in Aperture any longer.
Léonie

Mail freezes when updating large RSS feed boxes

This is something I encountered and how I have formulated a work around. I have discovered that Mail will freeze when updating large RSS feed boxes.
A little history. After discovery RSS and how they work, I began building a collection of feeds. They included feeds from many major news providers. Over the years, the number articles form some of these sources went into the thousands.
As my database of articles grew, I encountered more severe and more frequent freezes of the application Mail. I began to take the computer off-line in order to work in these files. But inevitably, a situation would arise that would lead to the Mail application freezing.
Isolation of the issue with Mail and to the RSS boxes within Mail. The freeze would not occur when RSS feeds boxes where collapsed. Also, the freeze only affected the Mail application. Mac OS was not affected and I was able to alway close Mail from with in the Force Quit menu. Also, the Force Quit menu affirmed that Mail was indeed frozen by listing it as also "not responding."
Work around. To resolve this issue, I first choose to remove the number of RSS feed that I had subscribed to but used very infrequently. Second, I choose to delete old feeds from "never" to "every two weeks" from within the Mail preference menu (RSS sub-menu).
I think it took a while for Mail to fully delete messages older than two weeks. In fact, when I began deleting whole feeds, it took some time for those feeds to be removed from my mail box tree. Within the Activity Monitor application, I could see that a lot of disk use was occurring, even though the OS was allowing me to continue to use Mail and other applications.
To assist this process, I took my computer off-line and stepped away from it. Upon my return, the disk use was down to normal, the number of article in many RSS boxes where greatly reduced, and my disk had recovered over a GB of space. Also, Mail seems to be behaving properly, with smooth and quick performance.
If you found this article, I hope the information provided has been helpful! After a quick search in to previous posts, an entirely similar post was not found. However, others are finding the Mail application will freeze, but not necessary for the same reason.

Since I don't want to download any attachments from RSS feeds in Mail.app, is there any way to turn off the attachment download once and for all? I also get the beach ball for minutes when an item has a big attachment, and I fear my HD is cluttered with files I don't use.

Itouch freezes when updating apps

Why does my itouch freeze up when updating apps? How do I fix this?

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Go to Settings.iTunes and App store and sign out and sing back in
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
If still problem, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store since it appears you have a hardware problem.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

ITunes apps freeze when updating

Within the last week or so there is an issue with various apps on iTunes where I try to download the updates on my home computer, but just as it gets to "processing file" it freezes. Then I cannot even quit the iTunes program - I have to Force Quit to get out. Any suggestions?

edweir wrote:
I found a solution that worked for me in a similar thread. Thanks to daljit, gcoat, and Stametis Kapetanakis for their help.
daljit
Re: After updating, stuck on processing file
Sep 18, 2013 2:23 AM (in response to jciyk)
Go to folder "downloads" in iTunes music folder which is the temporary downloads folder for Tunes itself.
If there is any item within (as a leftover from a former download), delete it.
Delay gone.
gcoat
Re: After updating, stuck on processing file
Oct 7, 2013 10:49 AM (in response to jciyk)
1. Quit iTunes (if not possible, then force-quit)
2. Delete every folder under here...
~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Downloads (Note: The "~" character, tilde, refers to your Home folder.)
3. Start iTunes and start your downloads again.
Stamatis Kapetanakis
Re: After updating, stuck on processing file
Dec 22, 2013 9:02 AM (in response to gcoat)
The correct file path for OSX Mavericks is:
~/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications/Downloads/
In my particular case it happens when updating Apps, and stick in "processing files" steps. Once stuck it needs to be Force QUit to clear it. As to the folder location, that depends on where you havelocated your iTunes data. Your preferences set to open up the iTunes folder. In my case that's, ~/Music/iTunes_xxxxxx/iTunes Media/Downloads
The "xxxxxx"'s are a date code of the itunes data files installation.
Regardless where it is located, this deleting of the items in the folder may solve it. Be aware that you may be asked to validate your Apple ID again and verify any age restriceted content. You can monitor the progress of the downloads by click in the little box on the top right of the itunes menu. However in my case it did NOT fix the problem. Updates downloads continue to hang. You can see where downloads create the .tmp files/folders but seem to stick on many items while completing others. No rhyme or reason to it that I can see.
Also Pause All no longer works!

I have a question my iphone4s has a problem when updated iOS8 there will be freeze problem i think iOS8 is not supported in 4s!!!!!!!!!

i have a question my iphone4s has a problem when updated iOS8 there will be freeze problem i think iOS8 is not supported in 4s!!!!!!!!!.
one more question when i phone5 update with iOS 8.1.2 this iOS supported iphone5???

Hi Ios 8.1.2 Should work on iPhone 4s / 5 You may have a bug Backup to cloud over WiFi Then Restore back to Factory Settings This will make iPhone as new. Use same Apple ID & you will get your Apps & Data back Do Restore over your WiFi. Cheers Brian

When updating apps on ipad and they freeze with 'waiting' message

never had this happen before. Have tried multiple time to update, app store icon shows number of updates, when I hit update, they freeze up with no update progress.

This can happen if you have something in your queue which has not completely downloaded. It could be a video, a song, another app, etc. First check to see if you have something you donwloaded which hasn't finished.
Then, do a reboot: Press and hold BOTH the power and home buttons at the SAME time for at least 10 seconds (ignore the red slider to shut down) until the Apple logo appears, then let go of both buttons and your iPad will restart.

Error message when updating vaults

I am getting this message when I try and update my vaults:
The vault “Weekly Backup” could not be updated because the file system of the vault's volume is not supported.
I have 3 vaults and they all gave me this error message. This one in general wasn't updated since May 2011.
Should I try to delete the vault and start a new one?

What file system is the vault(s) on?
You could start a new vault and see if that succeeds. If that vault hasn't been updated since last year it won;t be of much use to you anyway.
Are all 3 vaults on the same drive? From a backup standpoint that's not a great idea. If that drive goes you loose all 3. Do you have other backups?

Aperture Freezes after 3.5 update after trying to share on Photostream

Trying to share photos after latest 3.5 update. App freezes and pictures appear in forefront regardless of the app I choose. Suggestions?

Hi tomfromlandenberg,
If you are having issues with Aperture freezing after a recent update, you may find the following article helpful:
Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3805
Regards,
- Brenden

Updating Aperture vault will not complete, Aperture quits unexpectedly.

I have a continuing and recurring problem updating Aperture vault after the current Aperture update. The problem also occured after the last update.
Updating the vault does not complete and Aperture quits unexpectedly. This frequently leads to repair to the Aperture library being required. The only solution i have found is to create a new vault. Time consuming and a frustrating waste. I have reloaded Aperture and made updates. This has not solved the problem. I have checked permissions. Nothing wrong there.
My vault and Aperture library are on seperate external drives.

i am experiencing the very same problem updating my vault. Have tried about a half dozen times, creating new vaults (some work some dont) and updating existing vaults (never works). My managed library is 418GB on an external raid array. I have previously created a vault successfully on an external La Cie drive, but then the update failed. After repeated attempts I can not create a new one without Aperture crashing -- which leads to a multi hour repair session. Very very frustraing.
Can someone from Apple comment on whether this is a known bug? What is the work around? Smaller libraries?

Aperture vault is freezing at 50% when updating!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for