Is it possible to run Aperture 3.4.5 on Snow Leopard OS x 10.6.8

No.
This is the error message you will get.
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Aperture 2.x install on Snow Leopard

Having used Aperture since it was first released and later upgrading to 2.0 via Apple Store download process, I do not have a full 2.x installation CD. That wasn't a problem on my old G5 machine... and it probably wasn't a problem before Aperture 3.0 came out; however, it is a problem now.
Aperture 2.0 (trial) installed ok, but won't even start on Snow Leopard.
Aperture 2.1.4 upgrade won't install because it apparently cannot find 2.0 installed - even though Aperture is in /Applications (and hasn't been renamed).
Aperture 2.1.4 full version is no longer available for download since Aperture 3.x came out.
How do I get Aperture 2.x onto my new MacBook Pro?

I have Aperture 3 on my new Snow Leopard iMac, and Aperture 2.1.4, that used to run on my Power Mac G5, also runs on the new iMac . If you have Aperture 2.1.4 running on your G5, the app is Universal and should run on your new Intel-based machine after you move the application over from your other machine. How did you migrate things from your G5 to your new Macbook Pro? I did re-install all my programs from original CDs and DVDs just to be safe, but any universal app should still come over via Migration Assistant and Time Machine.

Im running on 10.6.8 On my mac...But i downloaded Mountain Lion recently and theres always an error once i try run it..do i need Snow Leopard 1st and then Mountain Lion..HELP!!

Im running on 10.6.8 On my mac...But i downloaded Mountain Lion recently and theres always an error once i try run it..do i need Snow Leopard 1st and then Mountain Lion..HELP!!

Sorry Josh, I'm having a bad day with my illness.
Can I ask you to repost this question? Might try in the Mountain Lion forum as well as here.
Put "Mountain Lion Install fails" in the headline box, then from your second post -
"When i run The OSX Mountain Lion Icon i downloaded from the App Store it always gets to the point when its about to restart but the it keeps saying "please quit the application and try again" Now i've tried Re-Downloading it a lot of times but that doesn't work"
and add the Mac specification -
MacBook7.1
2GB RAM
Upgrading from Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Sorry I can't concentrate sufficiently today.

Aperture 2 and 3 and Snow Leopard

My system with Aperture 2 was perfect.
Then I believe that Snow Leopard killed Aperture 2.
When I first installed Snow Leopard my machine felt like new again but slowly and slowly over the last few months the whole system seems to feel less and less snappy.
I don't use many video-intensive applications - my main one is Aperture 2, so this is where I find my main cause for concern.
Painfully slow adjustments with lagging, beach-balling, CPU-hogging, and RAM theft.
The main culprits seem to be Highlights/Shadows, Straighten, Crop, and Retouching… although my open mind says that could simply be because they form the latter part of my tweaking process.
There seems to be a thumbnail generation issue. Every adjustment that is made generates a new thumbnail - as you work through your tweaks that process seems to get backed up and slow everything down.
There seems to also be a video issue. Tweaking horizontal photos in full screen causes twice as much lag as a vertical image. Why? Take a look - it's obvious - in full screen edit a vertical image is about half the size of a horizontal one.
There seems to be a memory issue. Aperture seems to use a large amount of processor and RAM and sometimes doesn't let go of it or it gets caught in some kind of a loop. I've no idea what I'm talking about here. All I know is when I look at Activity Monitor the numbers are going through the roof and I can barely concentrate on them because of the noise from my fans.
There have been various and quite diverse suggestions on this and other forums as to what the underlying problem is and I have done my best to look into those and see what can help.
I have an early-2008 MBP 4,1 - 2.6 Intel Core 2 Duo - 4GB (factory-fitted) RAM - GeForce 8600M (512MB) GT.
I have done everything possible: all software totally up-to-date, re-installed combo updates, rebuilt Aperture libraries, run consistency checks, fresh Aperture install, fresh Snow Leopard install, repaired permissions, booted in 32bit, booted in 64bit, run hardware tests, deleted plists, cleared caches, downloaded and run applications like Onyx and Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner (amongst others) to ensure everything is in ship-shape along with various test applications to gauge if components like my hard drive are dying.
I keep my system clean and tidy. I have now stripped out bloat. I even took out iPhoto in case its 'iLife' browser link to Aperture was an issue. I have 85GB free on a 200GB. All components are original as factory-fitted by Apple.
Everything that any seemingly intelligent person on any decent forum has suggested has been done - in particular I thank the many users here on the Apple forum for all their information sharing… I try to read them all.
From what I see on the forums, I am not alone.
Nothing has fixed this problem.
I (and no doubt many others) have fed this information back to Apple.
Aperture 2 and/or Snow Leopard has a problem that has not been fixed.
Aperture 3 got released and I trialled it and swiftly uninstalled it because the exact same problems are there - even with one single photo in it.
My concern is that Apple will not fix the cause of the problem which seems to lie outside of Aperture.
If Apple concentrate on making Aperture 3 work better inside a possibly shaky Snow Leopard then I will be very disappointed.
I'm not forking out for a new version of software just because Apple broke my current software. Don't get me wrong - I do actually WANT to buy Aperture 3 because it has functional improvements and advancements that I would love to be using providing it works properly - and for me (and it appears for 'quite a few' others as well) it just simply doesn't… and neither does Aperture 2 any more.
I am no technical expert (as you've probably noted already) but a MAJOR bug seems to lie in the relationship between Snow Leopard, graphics cards, and the way it handles memory - and so in turn graphically-intensive applications like Aperture are high-lighting these problems more than others.
I am sure there are people without these problems. Perhaps these problems relate to specific hardware configurations. My configuration is Apple standard. I really shouldn't have these problems.
Until Apple fix this major bug I cannot remotely consider Aperture 3.
Until Apple fix this major bug I could never buy Apple again.
Up until Snow Leopard you had a VERY happy camper. I had a perfect machine and I was shouting Mac from the rooftops to anyone that would listen.
And then it seems Snow Leopard broke my machine.
What a shame.
I really want to use Apple, I actually really like Snow Leopard, I really want to use Aperture, I really want to carry on telling people how wonderful the Apple Mac experience is (or was...) but Apple are currently making it very difficult for me to continue doing so.
Please fix Snow Leopard.
This will hopefully fix Aperture 2 and Aperture 3.
Unless anyone else has a fix?
Sincere apologies to all for banging on for so long !!

Thanks for your input setwart.
When I make adjustments I do want Aperture to provide me with a new version so that I can see the original image and also that I have a version which I have already adjusted. I've previously tried changing that preference before with no improvement in performance unfortunately, but it's not really what I was referring to.
Versions, thumbnails and previews were very confusing terms to me for a while… actually, in some ways, they still are but my understanding is 'a little' better now.
That said, I probably used the wrong term.
What I meant was that every time you make an adjustment Aperture seems to produce a 'record' or 'snap-shot' of your image including that latest adjustment. In so doing you have an entire history of each adjustment you have made. In my head I picture this like a movie film-strip with each frame differing slightly. You increase your saturation by a single point? Another snap-shot. Fancy another single point on your saturation? Another snap-shot… and so on.
It is typical that I will make a bare minimum of 20 adjustments on each image, and that's before even thinking about straightening, cropping, and retouching… and then maybe I'll go back and tweak everything again !!
Somehow, my system is having difficulty in keeping up to speed with all of those snap-shots of individual adjustments. Certain adjustments will drastically slow things down more than others, and then I get to play with the beach-balls.
But - it used to handle these things just fine and that's what I'm trying to get back to.
Thanks again for getting involved.

Unable to install aperture 3.1 dvd on snow leopard or lion

I have an aperture 3.1 install DVD. I tried to install it on my macbook running lion 10.7.3 and it says:
I then tried to install it on my mac mini running snow leopard 10.6.8... same result.
Then I tried to install on my macbook (dual booted with the lion) running 10.5.8, clean install it worked just fine. Installed and asked me to get the updates.
My question is: how do i get this isntalled on my macbook running lion 10.7.3?
I have tried to repair permissions, I tried making sure I had all the latest updates through software updater. I have tried restarting.
The only thing I haven't tried is format and reinstall fresh, but that is my last resort.

Is there any diagnostic message (error log) in the Console window, when you run the Aperture 3.1 installer on your Lion system? If you see any crash report, post the first 50 lines of the crash report.
Your boxed version is licenced to run on a macbook and a desktop computer. Since the Trial Version is no longer available for download try to download the full version from the App Store:
on the system where you have an Aperture Installation register your Aperture version with Apple, if you not already have done so,
Sign into the App Store with your apple ID you use for purchases; the App Store now should register your installed applications
And if you now log into the App Store with your same ID you should be able to see a download link to download Aperture without having to buy it.
see this thread: Here this approach seems to have worked
This solved my question Re: Ap 3 on two computers?
What I am not sure about, is if you will be able to log into the App Store from a Leopard System.
If you cannot do that, then try to get the latest Aperture update using your Leopard System:
Then I tried to install on my macbook (dual booted with the lion) running 10.5.8, clean install it worked just fine. Installed and asked me to get the updates.
Try to download the updates and make a copy of the installers, before they are deleted again. Then try to run these installer on your other system.
Regards
Léonie

Help! Aperture won't work with Snow Leopard...

I know you will all probably laugh at me because I have just upgraded to Snow Leopard. The problem is that nobody told me my Aperture wouldn't work anymore! I can't even open it to retrieve my photos...(btw, this is why I was hesitant to upgrade...but I had to because I got the iphone 5 which wouldn't sync with my itunes version and that wouldn't update unless I went to snow leopard...and so on....).
So, the problem is that I need Aperture version 2.0. so I can update that to 2.1.4 and be compatible with Snow Leopard. I have 1.5.6 and kept it that way because it was working for me and I just basically use Aperture as a photo storage system. I can't find 2.0 anywhere. I can't figure out how to uninstall snow leopard either. I need my photos back asap.
Any suggestions?
Thank you in advance,
Debi

One more question, debi.
Does your Aperture icon show a circular ring like the ghostbusters? Like below for my CCC?
And is the "Kind" listed as "Application (PowerPC)" when you use "Get Info ⌘I)? That would indicate that your current Aperture version is still a PowerPC application. Then you can still make it run on Snow Leopard. You have to make sure that your Snow Leopard installation includes the Rosetta environment.
Do you have a Snow Leopard install disk? Look into the "Optional Installs" folder on this disk and open the "Optional Installs" package. Proceed as described in the second part of this
article:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1167117/reinstalling_rosetta.html
If your Aperture 2 version is still a PoerPC app, installing Rosetta should enable you to run the aperture 2 installer from your installation disk and then upgrade to Aperture 2.1.4.
Regards
Léonie

Aperture won't Quit in Snow Leopard

For some reason or other, I cannot quit Aperture once it has been opened in Snow Leopard.
Will try usual fixes like repairing permissions etc, but comment appreciated!
Thanks

You don't say what size your hard drive is , Andy, but *10 Gig free space is way, way, below the "safe" level for someone working extensively with video, 3D and large photo images*.
The minimum "safe" level on drives depends to a large extent on what you use your computer for, but a figure of 10% free on a boot drive is the minimum that is safe for most light users. If you are regularly writing and rewriting large files (video, 3D graphics and RAW image files, for example), then you need to keep much more space free. Some video pros actually suggest a figure close to 50% free space for boot drives in heavy use to avoid problems!
I find myself (I use video and other large files a bit, but not hevily) that on, for example, a 250 Gig boot drive used for such work keeping anything less than about 30 to 40gig free results in a rapid build up of free space fragmentation which, in turn, can soon lead to slow downs, instability and very extensive fragmentation of any new large files that I try to write. It also significantly increases fan use and HD temps in my iMac. On a notebook such things will also translate into increased stress on your battery when it is in use, resulting in reduced charge life. My own personal "rule of thumb" is to never let free space drop below 20% of total capacity. On a 250Gig drive this means prett close to 50 Gigs free at all times. HD space is cheap these days.
Your limited HD space probably explains many of the problems that you say you have experienced since installing Snow Leopard. Given your usage patterns it is extremely likely that serious free space fragmentation was already present. Installing a new OS, which can involve writing and re-writing over a hundred thousand files, on top of this can massively worsen the situation. The built in OSX file defrag routines normally work for files under 20MB, but don't operate with larger files.
By seeking to keep small files contiguous the OSX small file defrag routines also actually increase the amount of free space fragmentation on the drive. On a disk with plenty of room to spare this doesn't matter. On a drive as full as yours it results in fragmentation of directories and a host of other nasty consequences. Ultimately it can lead to failure of the drive with catastrophic directory damage when insufficient room remains for the writing of contiguous extents files and the like.
Once free space fragmentation reaches a certain level the smallest "fragments" of free space become too small for OSX to even deal with files under 20MB and the problems increase rapidly.
Unfortunately simply freeing up some room after the event doesn't really overcome the problem because the files you remove will already themselves be badly fragmented. You'll have more free space, and it may keep you "safer" for a little longer, but it will still be badly fragmented and problems will rapidly re-surface.
What you have to do is both free up a substantial amount of room AND defragment the drive in such situations. You can do the latter either using a good defrag utility (the only one I trust myself is iDefrag , but others make do with the defrag components of one of the two "general purpose" utilities - Drive Genius 2 or TechToolPro ) OR by making a bootable clone on an external drive using a utility such as SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner , wiping the internal drive, and then cloning back. (Shirt-Pocket Software have a useful pdf guide on how to use the "cloning" method HERE
In your case, as you have a complete backup on Time Machine, and seem to already be having problems with your current OS installation, you might consider wiping the drive , reformatting it, installing a "clean" copy of Snow Leopard, and then bringing things back from the back up.
If you are sceptical about the degree of fragmentation (especially free space fragmentation) you are likely to be experiencing with 10 Gig free I suggest you download the free trial version of iDefrag and get it to check the fragmentation level. I suspect you will get quite a shock!
My own recommendation would also be that you do as little as possible on this Mac until you have sorted this out, and have got your internal drive back to a situation where you have at 20% free space available. At present, with so little room available and a variety of problems already appearing, you are really skating on very thin ice.
Cheers
Rod

Can't Update to Aperture 2.1.4 on Snow Leopard

I fresh installed Aperture 2 to my Macbook, running Snow Leopard. When I launch the app it says "You can't use this version of Aperture with this version of OS X."
I understand I need to update to Aperture 2.1.4 for it to work with Snow Leopard. But when I try to install the update it says: "Aperture 2.0 or later required to install this software."
What do I do? I can't download and install the full version of the 2.1.4 trial because Apple took it down.
Thanks!

I had already deleted the .plist and it didn't make a difference.
I got it working though. I downloaded the Aperture 2.1.4 Trial linked to at the bottom of this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11645688
The trial wouldn't install (even after I Appzapped my previous Aperture 2 install). The install would run, say complete, but nothing would be added to the Applications folder.
I eventually went into the private/var/db/receipts and delete the Aperture files.
It installed fine after that.

So, to be able to use my new cameras with Aperture on my iMac with Snow Leopard I have to upgrade to Mountain Lion just to be able to read the RAW files?

Must I upgrade to Mountain Lion just to be able to use Aperture on my new cameras? I am using Snow Leopard now and have upgraded to Lion but didn't like it and didn't like that I was required to upgrade a couple of my other programs (Power PC stuff). Seems a bit of a rip off to me. I've just gotten a Canon 6D and have a Fuji X Pro 1, neither of which RAW files are readable by Aperture.

The RAW converter Aperture uses is part of OS X (and is, therefore, system-wide). Updates to the RAW converter are, effectively, OS updates. If that update is not available for your OS, then you cannot use it.
Darthfeeble wrote:
Must I upgrade to Mountain Lion just to be able to use Aperture on my new cameras?
Depends on your camera, but it is certainly possible.
The Fuji X-Pro1 sensor does not use a Bayer array. Afaik, there has never been a non-Bayer-array sensor camera supported by Apple.

Is Aperture 3.4 compatible with Snow Leopard

I want to purchase Aperture and have a circa 2010 iMac running Snow Leopard. The App Store says I need at least Lion, however I have seen postings that indicate Aperure 3.3 can run on Snow Leopard.

Hi
Best is to buy Aperture 3 in DVD format. It's prior 3.3 and 3.4 and is easily available on amazon.com
Doing this as we speak as I have the same issue than you ... Only drawback is that you might be stuck with version 3.0 or something which has the early day issues/bugs you can imagine.
Hope it helps
Georges

Aperture is very slow with Snow Leopard

Hello,
I updated my MyBook with Snow Leopard. The (big) problem is that Aperture 2.1.4 is now very slow when I make change to images. CPU usage is very high and Aperture is unusable.
What can I do?
Thanks in advance.

zemitch - I also use one of the slowest machines capable of running SL, but my your graphics card may be different than mine. But I also store my masters on an external drive and that wasn't the issue.
I found rebuilding the database of Aperture when starting up helps a bit, but the biggest improvement is to do cropping/straightening AFTER the other adjustments. That changes my workflow, but with no crop/straighten, the other adjustments didn't not show the horrible slowdown.
See if that helps you.

Aperture fail after updating to snow leopard

after updating to snow leopard, aperture 3 is not working - i have downloaded aperture update 3.1.1, but now it is saying i must have aperture 3 when i try to run it - which i already have???, any help greatly appreciated, thanks.

Doh! - It had "original" in the filename. Renamed it and run the update successfully... All working well, thanks for your patience... Still getting used to Macs.
Thanks again.

Cannot use program, not supported by architecture? I have a MacBook running 10.5 and have a Snow Leopard upgrade disk to 10.6.3, and that is the error message that I keep getting as to why my update won't install.

I have a MacBook that I am trying to upgrade to Snow Leopard so that I may upgrade it then to Lion to make better use of my iPad and some of the n we tools that Apple has made available in Lion. I have checked and double checked that my MacBook meets the hardware expectations, and it does exceed the ones for Snow Leopard. however, every time that I try to run the install disk it tells me that the program is not supported by the current architecture. I have even tried to backend the processes by opening the install folder with "View Package Contents" option, but it still gives the same error message! Someone please help!

Obtain one of these Snow Leopard DVDs instead. They are not expensive.
To get one, there are some details at this link.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4368218

I have an emac running 10.5.8 I purchased snow leopard to upgrade. during the attempt to install, the computer says this is not an intel and is mot supported. i think this is a power pc? am i stuck with this 10.5.8 version or is there away i can upgrade

I have an emac running 10.5.8 I purchased a copy of snow leopard from apple. upon attempting the install i read that the computer is not an intel. I believe this is a power PC? Is there a way to upgrade to the snow leopard or am I stuck with this version 10.5.8? Thank you for any help.

As Niel says, no way to go past 10.5.8 on your Mac, but there is a more upto date Browser...
TenFourFox is the most up to date browser for our PPCs, they even have G4 & G5 optimized versions...
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/

The icons on the dock (and some other places) sometimes appear in low resolution, I'm running Lion on my iMac and Snow Leopard on my Macbook pro, got the same problem on both, anyone?

A few days ago I noticed that safari icon was in "low resolution", so then I deleted and put a new one in place, but after tahat I've been notice that otheres are doing the same, on my macbook pro (running snow leopard) the things are worse, sometimes even the shortcuts to applications and downloads show with the same problem. Could this be a virus???

Likely a corrupted cache file
Read the
Deeper cache cleaning/resetting
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3046

Is it possible to run Aperture 3.4.5 on Snow Leopard OS x 10.6.8

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