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I switched my Dad to Mac and also to Aperture. After importing all his photos it ended up being nearly 180,000 photos.
Aperture does now take about a minute and a half to boot, but once up it runs **** smooth.
My question is whether there is a way to speed up the bootup. He already has enough RAM, but I was wondering if there are any settings that could help the bootup time.
P.s. Just in case you were wondering, all the photos are of the grandchildren. None of us take any photos because he takes plenty!

Fire up Activity Monitor next time you launch Aperture to get a better idea what the laggard is. It is probably disk I/O. Make sure you vacuum the Aperture database infrequently, but especially after some large migration. If it is disk I/O, you'll likely need to align Aperture with a higher performance storage setup to increase speed...or just put up with the wait until the RAM caches.
Still, with that much RAM I guess we're talking about launching Aperture only about once a month since I typically just sleep my Mac Pro and uptime is usually over a month between reboots.

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