"Full Screen" in Aperture 3.2.1 is on wrong screen.

"Full Screen" in Aperture 3.2.1 - I finally bought Aperture and tried editing using my macbook pro and cinema display. I am working with Aperture on the cinema display and selected "Full Screen," however, the "Full Screen" shows up on the laptop, not the cinema display. The usual Aperture window stays on the cinema display. Of course why bother editing if the full screen image is not on the larger display? I tried dragging the "full screen" image from the laptop to the cinema display, but that wouldn't work. I searched as best I could for any help on this matter to no avail. Has any one else had this problem? Thanks for any help with this. (I usually work with PS CS5, other editing plug-in's with that, and iphoto for managing libraries.)

The most trouble-free (from the computer's perspective) is to put the OS Menu Bar on the big screen (this makes it the Primary Display), go Full Screen and set the secondary monitor to none.
All other variations of Full Screen + Dual Monitors are prone to the kinds of behavior you have experienced (IME). I gave up using Full Screen Mode with dual monitors many months ago. I hide the Toolbar, and regularly hide/show the Inspector. I keep my browser to the side in Split View.
I had expected Apple to fix these problems with the release of Lion (guessing that Aperture's Full Screen Mode was actually a bit of a preview of what Lion would deliver). Early reports were that this is not the case.
If you have a moment, you might send a report to Apple via "Aperture→Send Aperture Feedback". The performance of Full Screen Mode on a dual monitor set-up is more lemon than Apple.

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You could also set up SPACES to see if that works when lock up occurs in full screen
Apple Icon > System Preference > Desktop & Screen Saver > Hot corners
I have bottom left set to spaces
Then drop the mouse to bottom left, 4 windows appear, drag aperture to a seperate window and run there, you desktop is in a different space and can be accessed by bottom left of screen mouse movement (if the mouse works when A3 locks up)

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If not, is Apple script the only way to make this possible?

Would it then be possible to direct aperture tethered shoots to a folder where aperture will hot import, from which I can use action after import via the scrip as you mention?
I've seen it being done with my own eyes but I wasn't able to inquire more...

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Now, if I scroll back up, two rows of thumbnails are shown in the viewer:
To get the third row to show up, I need to scroll down to get the top two rows out of the way and so on.
At some point I saw this weirdo but have not been able to replicate it:
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Finally, when double clicking the photo in the Split View to view it by itself, once again it is not centered and cut off on the right side but there is no slider...
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edit: added the note under the first image

When the graphical user interface is misbehaving, it frequently helps to remove the Aperture preferences apple.com.Aperture.plist from your user library, see the Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics on how to do this.
Regards
Léonie

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I guess I wasn't using the right search terms, but after reading your reply I was able to find this huge thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1394928&start=0&tstart=0
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Merchon Cottrell
I've had the same problem. I tried the solution listed above :
(System Preferences->Mission Control->Displays have separate Spaces).
But this wasn't a fix to the swap display problem. I contacted Applecare, and they recreated the same problem, but haven't been able to offer a solution or workaround. Now my secondary display is useless (which is essential to my photo-editing workflow).
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The message in four languages indicates a "kernal panic". These crashes are system wide, and should be avoided.
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2. It would enable a more efficient conversion between Aperture and related non full-screen programs such as finder, scanner software, etc. In the modern OSX fashion, one would simply swipe from one to the other.
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Julian
Perhaps I'm missing something here - so if this answer is wrong - apologies in advance
Try clicking the 'Plus' button top left of the Aperture window. (This is the same button that would be green in a Finder window)
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Brian

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Trashing the prefs worked like a charm. Thanks for the quick and almost painless solution.

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