How to upgrade my aperture trial?

I've installed a trial copy of aperture and want to upgrade but the app store won't let me buy the application as it's already installed. I don't want to uninstall and lose the pics that I've uploaded and modofied on the trial version. What do I do?

Hello,
To buy the full version from the App Store you need to delete the Trial version "Aperture.app" from the Applications Folder. Don't worry, this will not delete your Aperture Library. Your Aperture Library contains your imported images, not the Aperture Application. If you did not set up anything special, your Aperture Library is probably located in the default inside your "Pictures" folder and called "Aperture Library.aplibrary". You may want to make a backup of this library, before you upgrade to the full the version.
Regards
Léonie

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One of the popups displays the price. When I click it, it says I can't buy it because it's already installed on my computer. I don't have a clue what's going on.
Thanks for any tips.

To buy Aperture you get the best deal from the App Store, not the Apple Store. The Trial Version has been discontinued. To be able to download from the App Store you have remove the Trial Version from the Applications Folder, but keep your Aperture Library and all the presets in your User Library. Then you should be able download Aperture from the App Store.
What is your OS version? You will need 10.6.8 or 10.7.3.
Regards
Léonie

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How do I remove the Aperture trial and go back to iPhoto. For my usage (just iPhone pics/movies) iPhoto is okay for me, but now I cannot figure out how to remove Aperture, when I drag to Trash I get a warning that Aperture is a system file.
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Should be pretty easy as follows:
1 - Make sure you have copies of any pictures you want that are inside Aperture somewhere on your computer.
2 - Quit Aperture > Remove any Aperture icon from dock > drag the Aperture program (lens icon) from Applications folder to the Trash > proceed through any warning dialog (including entering password as required) to complete the process.
Note - new security features in OS X Lion may present those warning dialogs to prevent accidental deletion of Apple programs.
3 - Hold down the 'Option' key and use the 'Go' menu in menu bar and select the 'Library' option.
4 - In the Library folder, open the 'Application Support' folder and delete any Aperture folder found.
5 - While still in the Library folder, open the 'Preferences' folder and delete both the 'com.apple.Aperture.plist' and 'com.apple.Aperture.plist.lockfile' file.
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7 - Go the your 'Pictures' folder and drag the 'Aperture Library' (may be named Aperture Trial Library or similar) to the Trash to delete it as well.
8 - Empty the Finder Trash to remove Aperture.
Note - there are some files and Aperture folders in the '/Library' folder (which is in the root of your system drive), but you don't really need to remove those. Since you are a beginner, it is probably better not to for now.
That should do it.
Additional edit: There are two Library folders I am referring to. The first is the one in your user account 'Home' folder which is the one you are going to by using the 'Go' menu. This is the one you are deleting files from in the steps listed. The second Library folder is the one in the root of your system drive and is not typically a location for beginners to work with (thus the final note above). Hope that is clear enough.
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How to upgrade an expired trial to a paid subscription?

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I have an Azure trial subscription that expired. Now I would like to upgrade the free trial to a pay as you go subscription. I do not want to create a new subscription as I have already created multiple VMs under the trial version and would like to continue
to use them, unless they will still be available under the new subscription.
When I went to account.windowsazure.com/Subscriptions, the only option I have there is "You have no active subscriptions. Click add subscription to obtain one". Although this is not what I want to do, I clicked
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How does upgrade for aperture work if use the trial to download?

I have a new macbook pro. I have installed my Aperture 2.X on it. Can I download the trial and when I purchase get the "upgrade" price? If so, how does that work. Do I type in my 2.x serial number at some point?
Or, if I purchase the Aperture disk, how does the upgrade work then?

In either case, with AP 2.x installed, the AP 3 upgrade installer should see that and only require entry of the upgrade serial number.
If doing a clean install with AP 2 not installed, you enter the AP 3 upgrade serial number and will get a second serial number field pop-up asking for a full version serial number (you would enter the AP 2 serial number at this point).
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How to upgrade to aperture 3.5 when the app store does not show the update. I did buy aperture 3 on DVD not thru the app store. what to do?

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If you are running MacOS X 10.9 and Aperture is installed in your Applications folder and simply called Aperture, not Apertre 3 or something, the AppStore should be showing you the update.
Have you already updated to Aperture 3.4.5 from the Support page Aperture 3.4.5?
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I installed the Trial Version of Aperture 3, moved over just a few photos, liked it, moved over all of my photos and really liked it (once everything settled down).
So, I now have three libraries and I'm going through the Faces part, getting all my photos in order. I figure it's time to go ahead and pay for the software, since it looks like a keeper.
So, the next time I open Aperture 3, I click on the Buy button. It takes me to the App Store / Aperture 3 window. Up in the corner is the $79.99 price, so I click on that, and then and then I click on Buy App. An error box pops up, "We could no complete your purchase. Aperture is already installed on this computer. Choose Software Update from the Apple menu to check for available updates."
Huh.
Just in case they aren't kidding, I close that error window, close the App Store, and then click on the Software update... menu option. After running for a few minutes, it comes back and tells me that my software is up to date.
So, now I'm a little concerned. Please tell me there's a way to upgrade my Aperture 3 trial without losing all of the work I just put in. Any thoughts?

That nailed it. I was worried about losing the work I had put in, but that was a non-issue.
After deleting Aperture from the Applications folder, I purchased, downloaded and installed from the App Store. When I opened Aperture, it found all of the Libraries that I had created. Woo-hoo!!!
Thank you for the quck reply, leonieDF. You rock!!!

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How can I access the iphoto library using windows pc? Upgrading to aperture solves my problem?
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Aperture Trial - 1.5.1 Upgrade Breaks It?

Ok, so I was really pumped to see the Aperture trial and the D80 support today since I was waiting on the D80 before I bought Aperture. And the trial was just gravy!
So, I installed the trial, loaded it up and entered the trial serial number. Everything fine. Then, SW Update tells me I have an update to 1.5.1 for Aperture. So, of course I installed it and now the trial serial number is not valid and it continually asks me for a proper serial number. I am removing and reinstalling now, but at least in my case I would suggest that any trial users not upgrade to 1.5.1.
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How to upgrade Aperture with insufficient disk space

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I am trying to upgrade to the latest version of Aperture (from 3.4.3 to 3.4.4). I downloaded the update from the App Store but now whenever I try to launch Aperture it says that there is insufficient space on the library volume to perform the upgrade. The library is on a 3Tb external hard drive which only has 5Gb free. I have a lot of photos that I would be happy to delete but now I can't get in to delete them. If I select Cancel Upgrade then Aperture doesn't launch. I did briefly select Continue and Aperture started the upgrade but I Forced Quit from that as I assume it would eventually have crashed anyway.
Is there any way I can get in, using either the old or new version, to just go through and delete some images to free up the required space? Otherwise, is the only option for me to buy an even bigger external drive and manually copy the library file over to that?
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Robert

Robert,
I am just worried about what might happen, if our internal SSD should fail. The system files, your user settings, mail boxes, everything in your user library and system library, the installed applications, plug-ins, Aperture presets, etc. From what you are describing, you are taking good care of your documents, but the system itself and the work you are putting into configuring it is not backed up. Should your system drive crash you would have a hard time to recover from that.
The easiest way to backup your system drive and the internal HD2 would be to use one of your 3TB drives with Time Machine. You need not necessarily Time Capsule to be able to do that. Time Machine can work with any external disk, that is formatted MacOS X extended.
Just plug in the backup drive you want to use, then open "System Preferences" and click the Time Machine icon.
Click the "Select Backup Disk" button.
Enable "Show Time Machine in Menu Bar".
Click the "Options" Button. If your backup drive is not large enough to include your Aperture library, deselect the other external drives in the "Options" panel. You may even deselect the second internal drive, if you are backing that up differently and only want to create a backup of the system. Then a small 500GB drive should suffice to get you started with system backups. But backing up both internal drives at once using TimeMachine would be much preferable.
Then set the switch to "on".
The first backup may take a very long time, but it will run in the background, so let it run.
Léonie

How can I install Aperture on my new Macbook Pro. I am up to date with my Mac Pro, I have the Aperture 1 and installation disks but cant remember how I got to 3. Can anyone help? Many thanks regards Alf

I have an up to date version of Aperture on my Mac Pro, and I would like to install it on my new Mac book Pro. I have the original installation disks for Aperture 1 and 2. I cant remember how I got to Aperture 3, I think it was via a web download but not sure. I have checked my purchases in the App Store but there is no indication of me buying an upgrade to Aperture 3.
Ive tried to download it from the App Store but it wants me to pay again.
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Many thanks regards Alf

Then you can download the Trial version of Aperture 3 and unlock it with your serial numbers - you will need all three for all three versions: A current link to the Trial version is in this support document, also instructions on how to reinstall on different systems:
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Regards
Léonie
BTW: Your Aperture 3 serial number will be displayed in the "About" panel - the panel you see, when you use the command "About Aperture" from the Aperture menu in the main menu bar.

Upgrading from the Trial

Hi
I have just upgraded from the Aperture 2 trial
I bought a disk and instead of installing it just used the serial number to activate my trial
Its fne except from one annoying glitch
On Finder my Aperture Library is still called Aperture Trial Library
Its not going to kill me but I do find it annoying
Any offers on how to sort this, and even if it is ever likely to be a problem?
Cheers

you can remove it (after getting images out of it), you can rename it ...
the trial version limited your library functionality by design ... but that is gone now and you can begin in earnest to create your "permanent" library ...

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