Opening Aperture 3

After first installation and moving sample pictures and "Wyoming" file to hard drive Pictures folder, I click on the Aperture program and receive message: "There was an error in opening the database for library "~/Pictures/aperture/Library.aplibrary". "Quit" is the only option given. I can't get started. I have reinstalled without success. What can I do?

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
Hold down the Option key while clicking to open Aperture. Do you get a dialogue window to choose a library from Storage or via the Create Button, to create a new Library?
Also start reading various getting started videos at:
http://www.apple.com/aperture/how-to/#video-welcome
Ernie
Message was edited by: Ernie Stamper

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