Cropping Crashes Aperture 3 due to Video Card Memory Leak?

Question

Recently after updating from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2 I have been experiencing crashing issues whenever I perform the cropping action.  I see the death of wheel following hitting the return key.  There was one time when the master version itself vaporized into thin air.  I also noticed from the iStat Menus that the issue only occurs when the ATI Radeon HD 2400 memory usage has reach its full capcity.  I quite firefox to release some of the memory then Aperture functions normally until the memory runs out again.  I would then see the death of wheel once again when I crop.
Is Aperture crashing because I need a more powerful video card or is it a memory leak issue with the application?
Thanks!
iMac (Early 2008)
2.4 GHz Intel Core  Duo
4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
ATI Radeon HD 2400

Answer 1

Frank Caggiano wrote:
Lets see if we understand this correctly.
You had a system on which Aperture was crashing when you used the crop tool. You then got a brand new system and the crop tool still causes  Aperture to crash. Am I correct so far?
What are the common factors between the old and new systems as far as Aperture goes? Not knowing how you migrated from the old to the new the only  thing we can say for certain is that the library is identical.
So have you run the basic library first aid steps? Another thing to try is to create a new empty library, put an image into it and try cropping it and see what happens.
Let us know what happens after those steps,
regards
Frank Caggiano wrote: Lets see if we understand this correctly. You had a system on which Aperture was crashing when you used the crop tool. You then got a brand new system and the crop tool still causes  Aperture to crash. Am I correct so far? What are the common factors between the old and new systems as far as Aperture goes? Not knowing how you migrated from the old to the new the only  thing we can say for certain is that the library is identical. So have you run the basic library first aid steps? Another thing to try is to create a new empty library, put an image into it and try cropping it and see what happens. Let us know what happens after those steps, regards
I migrated everything from the old computer to the new.  I also tried creating a new library and the issue persists.  I've also tried the First Aid options all of 'Repair Permission, Repair Database, and Rebuild Database' none of which worked.  I've also tried reinstalling Aperture and it crashes on the first crop.
I will need to be editing many photos in a few weeks and now I'm stuck with this issue.. HELP!!!!!!!
It seems like others have run into the same issue also but no solutions!!
Why is aperture 3.1 crashing after cropping images, any one else?
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