How do I open aperture 4?

Can anyone help a simpleton fix the problem of The latest version of Aperture (4) not opening at all. It just continuously crashes wihout opening.

The latest version is Aperture 3.4.
Just delete it from your /Applications folder and re-install.  There are about 5 or 6 other threads here with instructions; feel free to read them for more details.

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    Léonie

  • How to keep my Aperture library from showing up in other user's iPhoto?

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    Hi Bradley,
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