Aperture very slow

Has anyone come across this issue when the MAC just freezes up or runs very slow when aperture in use? its like the things is running on solar energy an its night time! can someone help please? any quick fixes? i run a MAC OSX version 10.7.2, 3.06Ghz core 2 duo, 2GB 800mHz DDR2 SDRAM
Any insights appreciated
M

With only 900 MB that doesn't surprise me.
You need to seriously look into either deleting or moving a bunch files.
OmniDiskSweeper will point out the files and folders that are taking up the largest amounts of disk space.
Running with such a small amount of free space has greatly increased the cahnces that your hard drive is corrupt. So after you free up space, you really should boot from another device and repair the disk with Disk Utility.
Allan

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Mac Pro with Aperture - very slow

Why, why couldn't it be faster?
I've been reading about the Mac Pros since they were announced last week. The local Apple store finally got one and I went to go see it. And there it was -- 42 lb glory, standard configuration, driving a 30" screen.
I launched Aperture... and it's slow. I mean really slow, spinning pizza wheel slow. Granted I'm trying to bring up full size raw images that are ~16-18 meg each. But come on -- this is a workstation class machine! The "fastest Mac ever"!!!
Showed it to the guy working there. He said they installed the box today with a brand new disk image and sometimes the image is bad. "Ben" promised he'll call their engineers to see what's up.
So what's going on here? Some ideas:
* Aperture is very Core Image intensive, and the standard GeForce 7300 card isn't that fast. I plan to upgrade to Radeon X1900XT - people say that will likely make Aperture faster.
* The photo files were huge, 16 to 18 mb each. Raw images my camera takes are 6 meg. At least until I upgrade my camera.
* The box had 1gb of memory - standard configuration. Would more help?
* Maybe there really is something wrong with the box or the disk image.
Disappointing...
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I dont really post very often here but i think it is yet time to give again out a few pointers about Mac performance ...
1) Whatever the configuration ... Ram is essential and shall never be ignored .
2) Whatever the hardware platform your machine is running on check your software version and keep up to date , that goes 20 times for anything Universal Binary.
3) When treating high volume files Hard drive space is ESSENTIAL and not only necessary and frankly setting up a raid from a Mac is still seamless and fast.
If you all made it through to this point then your mac is becoming a powerhouse never slows down and really smiles and keeps on coming ... i have been running G5 machines for a long time on mac os X servers since the G5s came out and before that were yet G4s . First thing you need when dealing with large files is RAM second drives and third software versions.
I would not dream running anything with 512 mb of ram at all that is a constant on all macs , you have a memory expansion capability to 16GB mmm that shall really help .
Further you have 4 bays for drives ... may i dare think they are here for some reason such as treating high volumes files ?
Third and foremost when using nvidia cards dont expect superb performance on a 30" screen when using the FX4500 card since nvidia cards have a really bad record on that matter with the G5 .. would you deal with massive 3D open GL etc etc etc ... ATI is it plain simple and really outperforming it has always been the case for macs .
Yes, ATI X1900XT are rare now because of delays but the cards are no slugs on a mac and they mean business when running on 30" screens . A pci-x X800xt radeon card running on a previous dual processor machine kept kicking the Quadro running off a PCI-e on a quad machine ... we then tested with a X1900xt prototype and again the world changed .. all the things the nvidia card could not deal with the X1900xt just smiled at and kept on chomping non stop .
I did not still get aperture since i have yet little need for it but my educated guess would be that with a little ram a nice set of raid array (you dont need 15k rpm drives unless you treat live HD solely on a internal array) and or an Xraid setup the machine would just scream in performance. If you use the machine for production processing power of the chip is just a tiny part of the whole performance equation thinking about streamlining your pipelines and data flow takes your setup to whole new grounds.
A quad running 4D server Maya some data backups mysql and about 103 processes is occupied about 10 percent load averages .....
secondly regarding disk images and apple installs errr please take the time to install everything from scratch i am guessing aperture you just have seen running might be using rosetta and is just a transfer from a G5 that would explain performance issues . 18 Mb a picture is not huge ... we use about 100Mg images on PS maya strata etc etc etc and frankly image size with a bit of ram never has been an issue.
G5 Quad 2.5 7TB xraid 16GB of ram. Mac OS X (10.4.7) Mac os X server 10.4.7

Aperture very slow on mac pro 8 core

I have a very new mac pro that can't seem to run aperture at a usable speed at all. My 4 year old G5 was able to run it faster, using the same library. When I move between pictures, or even try and change rating, the whole computer comes to a halt and I can't do or click on anything. After about 10 - 30 seconds I can start working again. This is the same with just about any feature in aperture. I have checked the task list and it is empty. This is running with the library on the boot drive and on a secondary drive. The performance is the same. Any ideas??

Library size does matter, and Aperture doesn't handle big libraries well when it comes to speed. It shouldn't matter but it does.
My own library is around 65k images and growing rapidly. If I was to have all these images on one drive, or a RAID, and perform a search of an image with spotlight, I would get results in only a few seconds, with Aperture it's like pulling your hair out and is very painful to perform a search.
If I wanted to search my entire album I must be prepared to watch the spinning beach ball for quite a few minutes, and every click or keyboard type takes another few minutes. I don't know why this is, or why the finder runs rings around Aperture, even iView can perform a whole library search in a matter of seconds.
I think it is because Aperture is trying to show you all the thumbnails or present a graphical view of all the images when you choose library or all images. All I am doing is asking Aperture to consider all the data in all images before I perform my search, but Aperture wants to do everything.
I really hope that the engineers work on this issue for version 2, and also come up with a better captioning window than is currently in use. I use PhotoMechanic to caption everything before it even touched Aperture, which makes Apple's programme by post-event workflow rather than my live workflow. An IPTC window such as PhotoMechanic's would be very welcome. If anyone else agrees please add it to the feedback page.
Anyway, back to the performance. Certain operations, even with plenty of RAM and a good graphics card, can lead to almost snail like performance with large Aperture libraries. I doubt an Octo-Mac (as I like to call them), or even a 50-core Mac with 60Gb RAM and a 20GB video card would make any difference. The application needs updating in that respect.

Aperture very slow loading the next image...

OK, I've trawled the forums but I can't find a specific answer.
Firstly, I'm using a low spec iMac (2007 2.4GHz C2D with 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 2600 - 256MB VRAM on 10.8.2) but I'm not convinced this is the issue.
When I navigate through photos (Sony Alpha and Canon EOS RAW) there's a major delay of up to 20 seconds when the image shows "Loading" with a spining gear wheel-thing (not a colour wheel). The delay is worse on the 17Mpixel Canon files.
I've check what the activity monitor is doing during this and the memory seems fine, I still have over 1GB free and no pages in/out or RAM activity of any kind. The CPU goes ballistic - 180% on Aperture - it's really working. Given the file size/delay difference, I'm assuming the image is being generated with adjustments composited etc.
I thought the previews were supposed to address this by providing a cached image so my question is; is there any way of checking the previews are being accessed? I've deleted the previews from a selection, re-generated using a couple of size setting in prefs, they've been generated but still no speed-up.
I've also done a permissions repair both in disk utility and cmd-option launch of Aperture. No difference.
Thanks for any help in advance, Dave

I've also done a permissions repair
If you have a corrupted library the permission repair alone may not suffice. Have you also repaired or rebuild the library?
Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual
if that does not help, check, if you have incompatible video codecs installed:
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I recently purchased an i7 Macbook Pro, and the first thing I did was to load Aperture 3. After installation, it opened in around 5 seconds. I proceeded to install other software (firefox, iWork etc. etc.) and when I went to start Aperture afterwards, it now starts in around 2 - 3 MINUTES!
I have rebuilt the system a number of times over the past few days, and think I have found the culprit - iWork. When it's loaded, it seems to kill the load times for Aperture. I'm not 100% sure it's iWork, but has anyone else had a similar problem?
If so, has anyone got any ideas on how to fix it?
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Also try a few of the following
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805
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by your Aperture library,
your user account settings,
or your system(hardware).
To check if the Aperture library is making problems, create a new one and run Aperture from that library (File -> Switch to library -> Other/New). If everything sems to be o.k. with a new library, you should be able to correct the slowness be importing your old library in to the new one.
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Aperture 3.1.3 Very slow importing raw files please help
Pro Photographer. I have a Mac Pro Quad core 1 yr old with 12GB Ram. I import via 2 Firewire 800 card readers - A Lexar & a UDMR Reader.Only using them singly. System has 4 1TB hard drives 1. Applications, 2. Aperture Library, 3. Aperture Vault, 4 Time Machine
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My Aperture Library is 14GB, 13,000 files, 90% are jpegs. All picture files are referenced and take up an additional 17GB.
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I'm surprised nobody has responded to this yet. Hopefully you have already figured it out, but if you double click on the aperture library while holding down the option and command keys, Aperture will bring up a dialog that gives you three options for dealing with potential library issues: repair permissions, repair the library or rebuild the library. You should try them in that order, and it is a good idea to back up your library first (especially before rebuilding the library).
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After consolidating iPhoto pictures into Aperture Library - and having to rebuild library all photos are shown under "Other" in storage under About this Mac. How do I get photos back into the Photo section. I am sure this is why Aperture is running very slow. Aperture library is on a 500 GB external USB hard drive. Does anyone know how to get photos into the right spot in the storage.
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When working with aperture 3 it is very very slow,

Don Carlo,
Got it. If your Library successfully converted and completely reprocessed, then you are half way there.
Assuming that you have a copy of AP2 backed up somewhere, and a copy of your AP3 library backed up as well. I would try something like this:
-- First of all, try the "Safe Boot/Regular Boot" cycle. That may be all you need. After this, start Aperture and if it wants to process anything - let it. Click on the display and see if it hangs anywhere. Many of the problems reported come from corrupted images - often a large TIFF with spot and patch repairs or retouches. Remove (export or delete) offending images until you can fix them and bring them back. Assuming you still have your master, at worst you are going to lose your adjustments and AP3 has more an better tools.)
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-- Rename one of your AP3 Libraries to something like Test, or "Gawd-I-Hope -This-Works!."
-- Delete Aperture 2 and 3 from your working system. You may want to try something like Appzapper to make sure your have removed all vestiges. You can try running the Bergsma Bash to see if any of the cache/prefs files are still around. Trash them if they are.
-- Run software update to be sure you have everything. It has been suggested that you may get better results running the "Combo" update directly from the Apple site, that way there is no chance of any element being left out.
-- Your software being at the latest level of Snow Leopard, install Aperture 3.0 and update to the latest version.
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If this works, the put your test Libary where you want it, named what you want. Delete the extra copy of the Library and BACK EVERYTHING UP!
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Just suggesting things right off the bat here-
To me it sounds as though the HDD is failing, if your iMac shipped with a Seagate drive try entering your serial number to see if Apple will replace it:http://www.apple.com/au/support/imac-harddrive/
Or try running Apple Hardware Test a few times back to see if it is a hardware error.
As for the iLife apps they should've come on one of the install discs that shipped with your mac.
If your iMac is ineligible for the program above I would consider replacing it yourself with either an SSD or HDD, as for recognising apples servers for download, you will need the original install discs that came with your computer or if you haven't already it will need a firmware update to enable internet recovery
See here:Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery
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