Cannot repair Aperture Library, "which library do you want to use"
When I open Aperture and hold down the option key I keep getting prompted for "which library do you want to use"
and it lists my current library and two backup with a , .BAK extension on two different disks.
So I cannot get to the repair options, I only get "which library do you want to use".
How can I get to the repair options?
much appreciated.
You need to press the key combination options-command to launch into the Library First Aid Tools:
Hold down the options key ⌥ and the command key ⌘ at the same time, while launching Aperture. And keep the keys held down firmly, until you are seeing the Library First Aid panel. Then select "Repair Library" from the panel.
If you only hold down the options key ⌥, you will launch into the Library chooser panel to switch between libraries.
What is the reason, that you need to repair the Aperture library?
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Also, how can the System show to me 'How do you want to use this disc' , in particular when a DVD is non rewritable(DVD-R) and also contains data)?
Bear in mind, not all DVDs/CDs were not detected. However, only full lightscribe discs' (having data)
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non lightscribe discs were opened well.
When checking the device manager, I didn't see any issue with DVD/CD drive. If there were a problem unrecongnising, then I would have seen 'a remarkable mark' in front of it.
Note: I have faced this problem after trying formating a rewritable CD inserted onto the drive. Althouthg the format failed, all data on the disc was deleted. Anyway, after that, then inserting full-lightscribe discs are unregonised
Do you think the problem wth my optical drive. IF so, I would be saying why it wasn't happened with all other non lightscribe discs. If my lightscrib discs were corrupted, then why would they have opened well on another laptop.
I have done:
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Type devmgmt.msc in the Run dialog box, then press Enter. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow
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When you are prompted to confirm that you want to remove the device, click OK.
Restart the computer.
But the same prolbem is existing.
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A man should convert his anger and sadness into strength to continue living in this life.Hi,
The product Name of my computer is: HP Pavilion dv6-6093ex Entertainment
Notebook PC support
The number of my computer is : LM610EA#A2N.
Could anyone please at this splendid forum take some of their precious time
out to really reply my questions and solve my problems?
FIRST OF ALL:
My HP Pavilion Laptop is about 3 years old.
My
sister's Dell Inspiron laptop is 3 years old.
My HP lapotp is well-cared, as opposed to my sister's Inspiron Dell laptop,
which is always thrown in dust without caring at all. Also, its battery is
always inserted even when it is fully charged while the laptop is plugged in to
the main power supply.
However, my laptop is either used on only battery, or on plugin. Also, it is
kept from the dust.
But, I really found that the battery of the Dell laptop
still lasts about three and half hours, and there is no problem cooling fan is
not oproperly preporly.
I only remember one thing differently done on my laptop battery which is I
charged it fully, then I stored it without using it for about four months, then
when I reused it, I found it got worse over time. I.e. first time of using it
after storing,I found it empty, then I charged it again fully, however, then it
lasted about 2 hours, then 1 and half hours, next an hour, now it is only
lasting about 20 minutes without performance. If there is high performance, then
the computer shuts down suddenly.
My problem is follows:::
First: Whenever I inserted any Containing Data OR Data
CD/DVD-R LightScribe discs, I found that HP optical driver was
unable to read them. When clicking on the optical disc drive
'duble-click', then I find that disc opens as this way(NOT: With a CD/DVD player
is grayed out)
Blank Or Used CD, DVD±R,RW lightscirbe is unable to be
read:(clicking on it let it Open like a USB FlashDrive or With a CD,DVD player:
NOTE: with CD/DVD Player is grayed out)
Used CD/DVD±R/RW Non-LightScribe disc opens normal:
Blank CD,DVD±R,RW Non-LightScribe opens normal(Opens like a USB FlashDrive or
With a CD,DVD)::
My HP CD/DVD DVD±R/RW specis are::
Optical Drives
hp CDDVDW TS-L633R
Media Type DVD Writer
Name hp
CDDVDW TS-L633R
Availability Running/Full Power
Capabilities Random
Access, Supports Writing, Supports Removable Media
Read capabilities CD-R,
CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW
DL, DVD+R DL
Write capabilities CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R,
DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL
Config Manager Error Code Device is working
properly
Config Manager User Config FALSE
Drive E:
Media Loaded
FALSE
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target Id
1
Status OK
Trying to solve the problem,
I have done these steps in order::
I tried checking with dignostic ulitiy:
I have tried Advanced View , this is the file of output data
diagnostic utility
LightScribe System Software Settings:
SOFTWARE\LightScribe\MessageDir
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common
Files\LightScribe\
SOFTWARE\LightScribe\LSPrintDialog C:\Program Files
(x86)\Common
Files\LightScribe\LSPrintDialog.exe
SOFTWARE\LightScribe\LSPrintingDialog
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common
Files\LightScribe\LSPrintingDialog.exe
SOFTWARE\LightScribe\LsPrintLauncher
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common
Files\LightScribe\LSPrintLauncher.dll
SOFTWARE\LightScribe\ResourceDir
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common
Files\LightScribe\res
SOFTWARE\LightScribe\LSPrintAPI C:\Program Files
(x86)\Common
Files\LightScribe\LSPrintAPI.dll
SOFTWARE\LightScribe\Update\UpdateShellCommand
http://www.lightscribe.com/go/downloads/windows
SOFTWARE\LightScribe\Update\PreviousVersion
1.18.20.1
SOFTWARE\LightScribe\Update\CurrentVersion
1.18.27.10
SOFTWARE\LightScribe\Update\TrailingVersion
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LightScribeService\Type
16
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LightScribeService\Start
2
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LightScribeService\ErrorControl
0
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LightScribeService\
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LightScribeService\DisplayName
LightScribeService Direct Disc Labeling
Service
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LightScribeService\ObjectName
LocalSystem
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LightScribeService\Description
Used by the LightScribe software components to support 3rd party disc labeling
applications using the LightScribe COM Application Programming Interface
(LSCAPI). This service needs to run for LightScribe direct disc labeling to
work.
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\LightScribeService\
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\LightScribeService\
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\LightScribeService\TypesSupported
7
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\Enum\0
IDE\CdRomhp_CDDVDW_TS-L633R______________________0300____\4&334f7860&0&0.1.0
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\Enum\Count
2
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\Enum\NextInstance
2
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\Enum\1
SCSI\CdRom&Ven_ELBY&Prod_CLONEDRIVE&Rev_1.4\1&2afd7d61&0&000000
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\allocatecdroms
0
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom\autorun 1
SOFTWARE\INTEL\Intel
Application Accelerator Not detected
Drives and Media:
Drive 0 : hp CDDVDW TS-L633R 0300 219 (E, Media
Imaging Parameter : 114
I tried running the below command line to fix potential disk issue 'Chkdsk
/r /f'
I cleaned the drive, discs, and so on.
I have uninstalled the all third-party data recording software.
I have uninstalled the Cyber DVD suite, lightscribe system software which
came pre-installed with my HP pavilion Notebook.
I have recovered my system from the Factory Recovery discs.
I have tried opening all those LightScibe discs not opening on my HP optical
drive, on a Dell optical drive, and all of them were opened well, although Dell
optical drive did not have a lightscribe feature at all., nor third party disc
recording software
However, the problem is still with opening the discs LIGHT-SCRIBE
Thus, my questions are:
How to determine if the drive is corrupted and needs to be replaced with
another one.
I think there something needed to be done on the BIOS Of my HP
laptop[[[A similar problems happened on my Desktop computer's optical
drive which is as follows:::(ALL discs are opened as empty by Optical Drive of
My Desktop Computer) ---while my optical drive of my desktop was connected to
the primary slave IDE, and the HDD was connected to the
primary master IDE, the optical drive and hard disk are functioning
well. However, I remember that while burning an image with Nero essential V: 5,
something went wrong, and then the Optical Drive of My Desktop Computer
(HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20) became NOT recognised/Installed on
BIOS, although it was still shown on the device manager as a
recognised device. Also, it was listed on my computer, however, when entering a
disc(blank or with data) into the drive, I found it was not recognised, and it
opened empty(no files at it), although it contains data. Thus, I decided to boot
to BIOS, and clicked on 'Autodetection for IDE', then I found that only HDD was
still shown as installed on BIOS. However, the optical drive was not. Th I tried
clicking on it on BIOS and then clicking on 'enter' to try to let the device be
re-recognized. However, that made no difference. I had to take part my computer
,and then reconnected the optical drive onto the secondary slave
IDE , and let HDD connected to the same primary master IDE.
Then, I found that the problem solved and all discs became being read
normally. Aslo, optical drive became installed on BIOS]]]
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How much does it cost?
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I have a New (2013) MacBook Air with Version 10.9 OSX
Yesterday it crashed when i plugged in my iPhone - as usual it opened up iPhoto and attempted to sync.
Now everytime i plug in my iphone iphoto opens up a box saying
'Which photo library do you want iPhoto to use'
I only have one proto library.
It has two options
'Other Library'
'Create New'
Selecting other library and attempting to select the only iphoto library i have - it doesn't allow me to open it (it is like the 'open' button is disabled)
Obviously i don't want to create new.
If i double click 'iPhoto Library' through finder it comes up with the same box.
I have gone back and attempted to replace the iPhoto Library with a backup from a couple of days ago which worked - ie the file copied across fine - BUT still get the same issue.
It is telling me that the iPhoto Library file size is 10.7 GB so it is obviously there.
I don't know what to do next :-(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.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
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Cannot open Aperture - I have tried all you have suggested?
Hi
For some time, I have had some Aperture problems. It kept saying that there was no more room on my start disc for a while, and when I cleared some space, it seemed to help.....but not for long. Now I cannot even open Aperture, but I just receive this message: there was an error opening the database for the library..(and then the name of my library). I have looked at all the similar advice, and I even tried to repair aperture, but it won't do that either. I have also checked my disc, but it doesn't report any problems. PLEASE HELP!
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That is very good news. It shows that Aperture is still working.
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It seems to me that we should also be telling our cameras manufacturers to quickly release whatever proprietary RAW information Apple needs in order to support a particular camera.
Here's something I posted earlier this morning.
"In very simple terms...
In order to add support for various camera RAW files, Apple has to ask the camera manufactures to supply proprietary information about how to process and read the RAW files. Each and every single camera has a different "proprietary process" it must use to handle the RAW file that the camera produces.
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If Adobe has support for a particular camera that Apple does not, then that means that Adobe has already gone through the trouble of asking the manufacture for the information that is needed, reached an agreement and signed the appropriate licensing contracts, exchanged whatever compensation was agreed upon, and then went to work making the software for ACR so it can read that particular cameras RAW files. As you can imagine, it's a process that takes some time to hammer out... more than likely because it involves more lawyers than engineers!
So... be sure you let Apple know that you would like them to add support for a particular camera, but just as important, make sure that your cameras manufacturer knows that you would like them to allow Apple to support their cameras with Apple's software."
-Robert
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Current support list (taken from dcdraw site 12 Jan 2006):
Adobe Digital Negative (DNG)
AVT F-145C
AVT F-201C
AVT F-510C
AVT F-810C
Canon PowerShot 600
Canon PowerShot A5
Canon PowerShot A5 Zoom
Canon PowerShot A50
Canon PowerShot Pro70
Canon PowerShot Pro90 IS
Canon PowerShot G1
Canon PowerShot G2
Canon PowerShot G3
Canon PowerShot G5
Canon PowerShot G6
Canon PowerShot S30
Canon PowerShot S40
Canon PowerShot S45
Canon PowerShot S50
Canon PowerShot S60
Canon PowerShot S70
Canon PowerShot Pro1
Canon EOS D30
Canon EOS D60
Canon EOS 5D
Canon EOS 10D
Canon EOS 20D
Canon EOS 300D
Canon EOS 350D
Canon EOS Digital Rebel
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT
Canon EOS Kiss Digital
Canon EOS D2000C
Canon EOS-1D
Canon EOS-1DS
Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Canon EOS-1D Mark II N
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Casio QV-2000UX
Casio QV-3000EX
Casio QV-3500EX
Casio QV-4000
Casio QV-5700
Casio QV-R51
Casio QV-R61
Casio EX-S100
Casio EX-Z50
Casio EX-Z55
Casio Exlim Pro 505
Casio Exlim Pro 600
Casio Exlim Pro 700
Contax N Digital
Creative PC-CAM 600
Epson R-D1
Foculus 531C
Fuji FinePix E550
Fuji FinePix F700
Fuji FinePix F710
Fuji FinePix F800
Fuji FinePix F810
Fuji FinePix S2Pro
Fuji FinePix S3Pro
Fuji FinePix S20Pro
Fuji FinePix S5000
Fuji FinePix S5100/S5500
Fuji FinePix S5200
Fuji FinePix S7000
Fuji FinePix S9000/S9500
Imacon Ixpress 16-megapixel
Imacon Ixpress 22-megapixel
ISG 2020x1520
Kodak DC20 (see Oliver Hartman's page)
Kodak DC25 (see Jun-ichiro Itoh's page)
Kodak DC40
Kodak DC50
Kodak DC120 (also try kdc2tiff)
Kodak DCS315C
Kodak DCS330C
Kodak DCS420
Kodak DCS460
Kodak DCS460A
Kodak DCS520C
Kodak DCS560C
Kodak DCS620C
Kodak DCS620X
Kodak DCS660C
Kodak DCS660M
Kodak DCS720X
Kodak DCS760C
Kodak DCS760M
Kodak EOSDCS1
Kodak EOSDCS3B
Kodak NC2000F
Kodak ProBack
Kodak PB645C
Kodak PB645H
Kodak PB645M
Kodak DCS Pro 14n
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Kodak P880
Kodak KAI-0340
Konica KD-400Z
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Leaf Valeo 11
Leaf Valeo 22
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Leica Digilux 2
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Minolta DiMAGE 5
Minolta DiMAGE 7
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Minolta DiMAGE A1
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Minolta DiMAGE A200
Minolta DiMAGE G400
Minolta DiMAGE G500
Minolta DiMAGE G600
Minolta DiMAGE Z2
Minolta Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 5D
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Nikon D1H
Nikon D1X
Nikon D100
Nikon D2H
Nikon D2Hs
Nikon D2X
Nikon D50
Nikon D70
Nikon D70s
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Nikon E800 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E880 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E900 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E950 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E990 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E995 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E2100 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E2500 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E3700 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E4300 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E4500 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E5000
Nikon E5400
Nikon E5700
Nikon E8400
Nikon E8700
Nikon E8800
Olympus C3030Z
Olympus C5050Z
Olympus C5060WZ
Olympus C7070WZ
Olympus C70Z,C7000Z
Olympus C740UZ
Olympus C770UZ
Olympus C8080WZ
Olympus E-1
Olympus E-10
Olympus E-20
Olympus E-300
Olympus E-500
Olympus SP500UZ
Panasonic DMC-FZ30
Panasonic DMC-LC1
Panasonic DMC-LX1
Pentax *ist D
Pentax *ist DL
Pentax *ist DS
Pentax Optio S
Pentax Optio S4
Pentax Optio 33WR
Phase One LightPhase
Phase One H 10
Phase One H 20
Phase One H 25
Phase One P 20
Phase One P 25
Pixelink A782
Polaroid x530
Rollei d530flex
RoverShot 3320af
Sigma SD9
Sigma SD10
Sinar 12582980-byte
Sinar STI format
SMaL Ultra-Pocket 3
SMaL Ultra-Pocket 4
SMaL Ultra-Pocket 5
Sony DSC-F828
Sony DSC-R1
Sony DSC-V3
STV680 VGA
Apologies for the large list, but I think its size illustrates the point.
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Which encoder do you like to use?
Hi,
I need to do some high quality encoding and would like to hear some opinions about which encoder you like to use.
Compressor seems pretty good, but there must be some reason the competition is able to charge more for their offerings.
BitVice?
MegaPEG.X?
Hueris MPEG Pro?
What other options are there (besides dedicated hardware encoders) ?
Many thanks.Hi Phillip - don't get me wrong, Compressor is just fine for a lot of encoding work, but when I go back to thinking about v1 it just wasn't reliable for encoding going to replication - there were far too many glitches and anomalies in the data it produced, notably fairly large bitrate spikes which caused the playback to falter. When you are needing to encode reliably and get things out of the door fast, this kind of issue is way too serious...
On top of that the standard output of compressor was milky - fairly washed out look which needed you to tweak the gamma setting. Whilst easy enough to do, it was another set of mouse clicks.
Finally, Compressor was not very good at CBR encoding - it varied too much from the bitrate for my liking.
Some of these issues can be seen in BitVice - I occasionally do still get spikes in the encode, but it is very rare. The output from the default settings is very good, and with the digital noise reduction tool I can get a super smooth looking encode from most material. The reliability of this makes BitVice a very good option.
Procoder is PC based, which introduces a new dimension. In most tests, the CPU on my PC will crunch numbers happily all day, and fast. The Mac is far better at a lot of things, but in raw grunt my PC is quicker (I need a new Mac, obviously!) This means I can use FCP to be creative, and pass the footage to the PC for encoding, leaving the Mac free to continue what I was doing. Procoder is also an excellent encoder and the output from it is rock steady and reliable, time after time. I happen to like the look of the finished MPEG, too - very clear and crisp and very seldom any glitches. If I set it to CBR encode, that's what I get. It seldom varies from the min and max I give it for VBR too, and there are plenty of post production filters to iron out glitches I miss at editing. It also does a pretty good standards conversion when I need it, certainly far superior to QT based tools I have thus far used (not including the Nattress filters). In short, it knocks spots off Compressor for the way I work.
So, speed, convenience, reliability and quality of output - each of these are important and relying on Compressor only doesn't give me the options I like to have. Compressor 2 is a good enough encoder, but have a look on the compressor forum to see what the issues are! Then head over to Innobits.com and check out the BitVice forums... I have to say that Compressor 2 is a very different beast to v1, and much, much better than it's predecessor, IMO (although not without it's problems).
The thing is, if you are happy with what you are seeing from your encoder and like the way it works then there's no need to change. If you want to have alternative options, or your work flow is a bit different, then perhaps Compressor alone isn't enough.
Quite apart from the technical differences I did create a disc with encodes from different softwares and play it to some colleagues who don't do video work. I asked them to compare the image with the original footage and say which is closest, then to say which image was 'better' to look at. Every time Procoder came top, BitVice second and Compressor last. I guess I ought to repeat this very unscientific and largely unreliable method and include MegaPEG.X in it now, too. I was only hoping for a bit of a straw poll on what an 'average' consumer might think was a good picture, I wasn't looking at in-depth comparisons. It was, however, good to get a range of opinions from a pretty unbiased group and confirmed my own thoughts about the output from the encoders.
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