HT201250 Aperture 3 library file permission problem

On trying to open Aperture 3 I get a message saying "Aperture cannot access this library.To use this library, make sure its file permissions are set correctly". When I click OK Aperture shuts down. Can anyone help?
I've been stumbling through trying to rationalise too many Aperture libraries and moving them to an external drive. This is almost certainly how I've manged to get into this situation...

No sorry in Aperture 3 all that got turned into entries in database files. And even if you could find them it would do you no good because the only place an actual image file is located is in the Masters folder, where the files imported are kept and the Previews folder, where the previews are kept.
Also bear in mind that the Masters folder is organized by import date and time not image date and time.
As a side note you need to be very careful using an online backup service for Aperture (and iPhoto) libraries. Because of the way the # libraries there have been reports of some of the services causing libraries problems when restored.
regards

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Aperture newbie - library / file folder question

I am still trying to figure out the best way to use aperture to organize my work and even after reading the documents, I'm confused about why it stores things the way it is and what other options would be of benefit.
With iPhoto, everything was stored in the iPhoto library. With they way Aperture is set up, I still have an Aperture library "file" that is 6.x gig but all my files are being stored in the pictures folder under their own folder names. I was under the impression all pictures were stored in the library file like iPhoto did. I'm assuming I just have something set differently.
So if that is the case and I can store all my images in the Aperture folder, what is the advantage of doing that versus they way its storing all of them now? Is one way better than another? Any opinions?
Thanks.
Matt

On a laptop or on an iMac you probably do want to manage by Referencing image Masters. Hard drives slow as they fill, so at some point - perhaps immediately - you will want your Masters on one or more external Firewire 800 hard drives. OWC <http://www.owcomputing.com/> has good Firewire 800 solutions.
With Referenced Masters, simply Finder-copy each new batch of images to the external hard drive and eject the camera card. Then (after backup of images) from within Aperture Import the images by Reference (when you go to import, on the right hand side of the import window select "Store files in their current location").
Existing images on your hard drive can similarly be imported selecting "Store files in their current location" however personally I would move the originals to an external drive prior to importing into Aperture because trying to keep originals on the single iMac or laptop internal drive will sooner or later overfill the drive.
During the import process is also a good time to assign all manner of keywords, so take some time in advance thinking about keywording.
A good rule of thumb is not to fill any drive more than 70%, and for best speed keep important drives no more than 50% full.
Good luck!
-Allen Wicks

Constant file permission problems

Hello out there..
I'm currently trying to sort out a problem with - what I guess is my - file permissions.
The problem reappears, even after a long disk repair session, where loads of issues are found and repaired.
At the end it says everything is ok, but if I click repair again, it starts again , and even after restart, the problem is back again?!?!
I've set my permission as follows, (to those of you who doesn't speak Danish - it's "read & write"), but it still says I have "special access"?
Why? and what can I do to fix it..
Please help me..
Michael

Michael Abel wrote:
Hello out there..
I'm currently trying to sort out a problem with - what I guess is my - file permissions.
The problem reappears, even after a long disk repair session, where loads of issues are found and repaired.
Disk Repair or Permission Repair?
Long list from a Permission Repair that come back is normal. Nothing wrong. See http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448
Long lists of problems from a Disk Repair that keep coming back is bad news. Likely failing disk.
Special Access means you have Access Control List entries set for the particular directory/file.
Did you every change permissions and then "Apply to Enclosed?"
Do you actually have file access problems, or are you just repairing permissions and think the long list indicates a problem?

[Bug] Xilinx IPCore file permission problem

I just copied a CIC IPCore node from a colleagues VI and tried to reconfigure from a 2-channel to a 4-channel filter.
At the end of the process I got a file permission error for a path which does not exist on my computer (presumably it has remembered the location to save the file from my colleagues computer).
Not too big a problem except the dialog will not close and I now need to exit LabVIEW and restart to get any more work done. In other words, a file permission error (or inexistent path) hangs the IPCore properties dialog at the last stage (at least for the CIC filter). Not nice behaviour.
Shane.
Say hello to my little friend.
RFC 2323 FHE-Compliant

I realise theres a path input at the beginning of the process but even if this is incorrect, the dialog should not hang.
Say hello to my little friend.
RFC 2323 FHE-Compliant

File permission problem and instance owner problem

Hi all
Recently i have install oracle 11g R2 software ( Using oracle user).
oracle home owner is "oracle" and group "oinstall". ( oinstall is primary group and dba as secondary group for the owner "oracle")
At the same time I have create new user name "test" and group as "dba".
As a "test" user i can able to access the software , creating new oracle instance , stop and starting the oracle database (orcl).
But when I started the orcl database as test user.
I can see the different owner for that instance and file permission is also different ( In my cas oracle user is becoming owner for the orcl database , Which is created by the test user )
Please help me in this
For your reference
===============
[test@redhat5 ~]$ id
uid=504(test) gid=501(dba) groups=501(dba)
[test@redhat5 ~]$ cat .bash_profile
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# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
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PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH
export ORACLE_SID=orcl
export ORACLE_HOME=/oraeng/app/oracle/product/11.2.0
export ORACLE_BASE=/oraeng/app/oracle
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH:.
[test@redhat5 ~]$ sqlplus '/ as sysdba'
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Sat Sep 25 22:20:08 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup nomount
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 1071333376 bytes
Fixed Size 1341312 bytes
Variable Size 864028800 bytes
Database Buffers 201326592 bytes
Redo Buffers 4636672 bytes
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
[test@redhat5 ~]$ ps -ef|grep pmon
oracle 9248 1 0 22:20 ? 00:00:00 ora_pmon_orcl
test 9329 9173 0 22:20 pts/2 00:00:00 grep pmon
Please see the ps command output owner of the instance is "oracle" , Actual instance started by "test" user
Regards
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Edited by: Arjun B on Sep 25, 2010 4:19 AM

Sorry , Database is not yeat created and I never used DBCA .
I am about to create database ( with manual script)
Please help me in this.
For your reference
===============
[test@redhat5 ~]$ sqlplus '/ as sysdba'
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Sat Sep 25 22:31:17 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 1071333376 bytes
Fixed Size 1341312 bytes
Variable Size 864028800 bytes
Database Buffers 201326592 bytes
Redo Buffers 4636672 bytes
ORA-00205: error in identifying control file, check alert log for more info
SQL> !ps -ef|grep pmon
oracle 15534 1 0 22:31 ? 00:00:00 ora_pmon_orcl
test 15619 15501 0 22:31 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash -c ps -ef|grep pmon
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Iphoto and aperture library file folder problem

Hi all,
I have a problem.
I want to have aperture and iphoto folders organized as itunes files fiolder. is possible?
I see in my aperure library that master folder (I have selected the option copy files in library) there are many and many date folder (many of them are empty) and I don't like this method of organization.
if I don't check the option to copy files and keep my database with only thumb, I have the problem that if I modify or delete a photo the original remain untouched.
please there are solutions?
davide

"(where?)"
Where you specify. Please see section 6 on this page (the User Manual is slightly out-of-date -- substitute "Original" for "Master"):
Choose a location for the imported files by doing one of the following:
To store imported masters in the Aperture library: Choose “In the Aperture Library” from the Store Files pop-up menu.
To store imported masters as referenced image files, audio files, or video files in their current location: Choose “In their current location” from the Store Files pop-up menu.
To store imported masters as referenced image files, audio files, or video files in the Pictures folder on your hard disk: Choose Pictures from the Store Files pop-up menu, and then choose whether you want the files moved or copied to the Pictures folder by clicking the “Move files” or “Copy files” button.
To store imported masters as referenced image files, audio files, or video files in a location other than the Pictures folder: Choose “Choose” from the Store Files pop-up menu and select a folder. In the dialog that appears, choose a location to store the imported masters, then click Open. Choose Project Name from the Subfolders pop-up menu to specify that the files be stored in a folder with the same name as the project. Choose whether you want the image files moved or copied to the new location by clicking the “Move files” or “Copy files” button.
" (are you sure? I don't find this option)"
I'm pretty sure. From
Deleting Images from the Browser
If you delete the last version in a version stack, Aperture asks whether you want to delete the master. If you confirm that you want to delete the master, the master is moved to the Aperture Trash.
When an image is represented in the Browser by a single version, you can select the version and delete it, and the corresponding master is deleted as well.
When you empty the Aperture Trash you should get a dialog box similar to this one. Note the field with the check box:
(Screenshot)

Aperture 3 library file organization question

I tried searching for an answer to this question but I had no luck. Perhaps I was searching on the wrong keywords.
In the older version of Aperture, you could look in the "guts" of the library and see individual projects, but as far as I can tell with Aperture 3 you can only see files by date (i.e. by year, month etc).
My problem is that I don't currently have access to the entire library via Aperture, but I have access to all the files via the cloud (I am using Crash Plan). I need to find individual files but searching chronologically makes no sense and neither does downloading the (terabyte plus) library to use in a local copy of Aperture is not feasible.
Is there a way that I can identify specific projects within the Aperture3Lib file? Any help would be deeply appreciated.
Attached is a couple of screenshots of what Crashplan shows.

No sorry in Aperture 3 all that got turned into entries in database files. And even if you could find them it would do you no good because the only place an actual image file is located is in the Masters folder, where the files imported are kept and the Previews folder, where the previews are kept.
Also bear in mind that the Masters folder is organized by import date and time not image date and time.
As a side note you need to be very careful using an online backup service for Aperture (and iPhoto) libraries. Because of the way the # libraries there have been reports of some of the services causing libraries problems when restored.
regards

File Permission problems FCP and XSAN

We have 5 Mac Pros connected to our XSAN (2 Xserves and 2 Promise arrays.). When a file is created on one of the FCP Macs and saved on the XSAN, the permission are OK (Individual - R/W, Group - R/W & Everyone RO.)
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Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
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If files saved to the AFP reshare are inaccessible by the fibre clients try this in terminal on your AFP re-share...
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Then restart AFP (or reboot), and re-propagate permissions back to where you need them. This will hand off file locking duties from AFP to the Xsan, which will help keep your permissions correct.
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File permission problem

Dear Ravi,
I was encountered another strange problem.
I have a stored procedure which will first create a sh script in the system and execute the script later. If I call the stored procedure from the foreground, everything works fine while run it as backgound, it fails. When I check "all_scheduler_job_run_details" view, I found "perssion denied". I found the sh script is with "-rw-r----" permission and the owner of the sh script is oracle user which is logical because I use utl_file package to create the file. But the extjob runner is nobody which is in "other" group and obviously he don't has enough privilege on the sh script. I tried umask on the background, it gives me "0027" and on the foreground, it is "0022".
I know that I can create the file using the command line as well so that the owner will be nobody as well.
My question is that how could I change the umask to "0022" when I run the extjob.
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Hi Lik,
I believe that utl_file creates files with the umask value of the oracle user(027 in your case). You can check the os documentation to change the umask value of an os user.
The switching of umask to 022 in the foreground is in fact a Scheduler bug which has been fixed in 11.1.0.6 where using run_job to run an external job would cause the umask value of the foreground to change (so utl_file would see a wrong umask when run in the foreground).
This is not something that should be happening and not something you should rely on.
Changing the umask for extjob wouldn't help since the umask is only in effect when the file is created. The umask for an external job should be the umask of the user the job is running as.
Hope this helps,
Ravi.

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Oracle Secure Backup on Windows: file permission problem?

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HT1941 I have inadvertently changed a file permission setting. When opening Aperture I get the following; Aperture cannot access this library. To use this library make sure it's file permissions are set correctly. I am an old dude new to Mac OS. What up?

I have inadvertently changed a file permission setting. When opening Aperture I get the following; "Aperture cannot access this library. To use this library make sure it's file permissions are set correctly". I am an old dude new to Mac OS. Looked in settings but have no idea how to allow file sharing to myself. I have been using Aperture actively for 6 weeks. I'm the only one using this Mac. What up?

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This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
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Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
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I recently moved my Aperture Library file to an external hard drive. Can I now create a vault to be saved on my Time Capsule for the Aperture library on this external hard drive?

I recently moved my Aperture Library file to an external hard drive. Can I now create a vault to be saved on my Time Capsule for the Aperture library on this external hard drive?

One thing to bear in mind, if you are using Time Machine on your Time Capsule and have it set so the TM backup includes your external drive, you will effectively be backing up your Aperture library twice on the same drive, once with Time Machine and once with the vault. This isn't a problem unless you start to run out of space.
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After upgrading to the latest version of itune, I get this message when trying to open itunes: "The I'tunes Library File is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have permission to write for this file.

After importing the latest version of itune, I now get this message: "The I-tunes library file is locked, on a locked disk , or you do not have permission to write for this file. How do I resolve this?

check if you have read & write permissions for your music folder. in the finder, right-click on it and get info. unlock the little padlock (you may have to enter your admin password) and change the permission settings if necessary. next, click on the little gear-shaped icon and apply to enclosed items like so
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also, even if it seems unrelated, try the steps in this support article: iTunes: Missing folder or incorrect permissions may prevent authorization

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