Repairing Aperture library stuck at 93%

Started repair of library and all went smoothly but now stuck at 93% for 30min... How long do I wait.
Aperture 3.1 opened but did not display pics. Had previously opened and saw all my photos and previews. Any thoughts would be helpful.

Would not be unexpected for it to take overnight. Don't nuke it, even if Activity Monitor reports "Not Responding". Somewhere around 92-94% is where it always bogs. Make sure computer stays "awake" overnight.
Suggest converting to a Referenced Masters Library (assuming from the size that you have a Managed Masters Library). Much excellent information here on this forum. Search. Leave the Library on your fastest internal drive. Leave at least 20% of that drive empty. Once you've converted to Referenced Masters, you may not see much (or any) speed increase by splitting Library.

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Cannot repair Aperture Library, "which library do you want to use"

When I open Aperture and hold down the option key I keep getting prompted for "which library do you want to use"
and it lists my current library and two backup with a , .BAK extension on two different disks.
So I cannot get to the repair options, I only get "which library do you want to use".
How can I get to the repair options?
much appreciated.

You need to press the key combination options-command to launch into the Library First Aid Tools:
Hold down the options key ⌥ and the command key ⌘ at the same time, while launching Aperture. And keep the keys held down firmly, until you are seeing the Library First Aid panel. Then select "Repair Library" from the panel.
If you only hold down the options key ⌥, you will launch into the Library chooser panel to switch between libraries.
What is the reason, that you need to repair the Aperture library?

Repair aperture library

In trying to use aperture, I get repeated "inconsistencies in library, repair". How do I correct this problem?

Back up your Aperture Library and try the "Aperture Library First Aid Tools" as described here:
Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805
Press and hold the Option and Command keys as you start Aperture. The Aperture Library First Aid dialog will appear and offer the three troubleshooting options - "Repair Permissions", "Repair Database", "Rebuild Database".
Try all three options in turn, starting with the "Repair Permissions". Post back, if this does not solve the problem.
If you cannot get to the "Aperture Library First Aid Tools" while launching Aperture with " Option and Command keys", select the Aperture Library in the Finder, and firmly hold down the Option and Command keys, while double clicking the Library.
Regards
Léonie

Aperture 3.4 cannot repair/update library

See also link from previous discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19731719?ac_cid=tw123456#19731719
Aperture is repeatedly repairing its library
Upon the recent "update" from Apple concerning Aperture 3.4:
I installed the update on 9/20.
When I open my massive 1.16 TB Aperture library, I get this message:
Aperture has detected inconsistencies in your library. Please click Repair to avoid any potential problems.
Click Repair.
Then this message:
Repairing Library: Examining Library
Then this message:
Repairing Library, 1% Complete
Since then, Aperture has been repairing my massive 1.16 TB library for ~ 5 hours until it gets to 77% and then "Aperture Not Responding".
I have to Force Quit.
Open Aperture again and then this message:
Restore Windows. The application "Aperture" was forced to quit while trying to restore its windows. Do you want to try to restore its windows again.
Click Restore Windows
Then this message:
Aperture has detected inconsistencies in your library. Please click Repair to avoid any potential problems.
Click Repair.
Then this message:
Repairing Library: Examining Library
Then this message:
Repairing Library, 1% Complete
Then, the cycle begins again until it gets to 77% in about ~5 hours
Then "Aperture Not Responding".
I have to Force Quit.
And so on.
So, I deleted Aperture from hard drive
Install Aperture 3.0 from cd/dvd
Open Aperture...with new library. Fine.
Close Aperture.
Open Massive Aperture Library
Get this message:
Warning: The library in "Volumes/Libraries/ApertureLibrary.aplibrary" cannot be loaded because it is from a newer version of Aperture.
Select Quit
Close Aperture
Update Aperture to 3.4
Open Aperture with massive library
This message:
Aperture has detected inconsistencies in your library. Please click Repair to avoid any potential problems.
Click Repair.
Then this message:
Repairing Library: Examining Library
Then this message:
Repairing Library, 1% Complete
Since then, Aperture has been repairing my massive 1.16 TB library for ~ 5 hours until it gets to 77% and then "Aperture Not Responding".
I have to Force Quit.
Of course I send the Report to Apple. Every time.
And so on and on and on and on. For FOUR DAYS already.
My Mac Pro has been a brick and unusable since it is hogging the cpu with this Aperture update.
Check back to the Apple Discussion Forums
Get this message:
We'll be back soon. We are busy updating Apple Support communities for you and will be back shortly.
Repeat all the steps above for 2-3 times per day for 4 days.
This morning, ran the Repair Library from 8:00 a.m. until 11:56 a.m., when I force quit.
Rebooted computer.
Option + Command Click while opening Aperture.
Repair permissions.
Repairing Library, Database. That ran until 3:00 p.m. when it got to 77% again and we start the ground hog day all over.
Quit Aperture.
Option + Command Click while opening Aperture.
REBUILD Database, 3rd option.
3:11 p.m. 9720 versions restored.
4:19 p.m. 93000 versions restored
5:46 p.m. 169936 versions restored.
6:30 p.m., at time of this writing, it is still at 169936 versions restored.
When Force Quit, Aperture is NOT showing up as Not Responding. But...we aren't done yet either.
So, I have repaired permissions on my computer.
Re-installed Aperture from CD
Tried Time Machine
and rebuild library up the wa-zoo. To no avail.
I have removed the plist items from permissions.
Nothing so far has worked.
I'm sick and tired of spending the last 4 days rebuilding and not being able to use Aperture.
I am extremely disappointed.
And this nonsense happened in April as well.
I am an Aperture Certified Pro. Aperture 2, Level 1.
So sad...

John, if you already reinstalled and tried all repair options, we need more clues to what might be wrong in your case. Please post a crash report (the first 60 lines + the crashed thread) and any diagnostic messages relating to Aperture that you can see in the console window.
Regards
Léonie

Aperture Library Repair fail

Hello,
I have Aperture 3, a 250GB Aperture Library and it faqiled to load this evening, just hung. I reapired permissions, tried to clean up the database and rebuild the database, none of which would run.I can find the library, look inside and see that the files are there in the folders. Aperture wont load it as the repair failed and was interrupted. Tried repair but the program bombs out.
Am scratching my head what to do?
Is there an external repair program that i can run over it? Aperture crashes out.
Bummed
martyn

I too am having difficulty with Aperture permissions. This permission problem has plagued me for the last year. Permissions will not verify using disk utility (Version 13) and disk utility fails to complete the repair after 7 minutes. Now my Aperture drive with all my libraries will not mount. The error message says to copy all files and reformat. How do you do this if disk utility will not mount the drive?
Here is the error log (or part of it).
Checking file systemChecking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Overlapped extent allocation (id = 22557, /New Gourds.aplibrary/Database/apdb/Properties.apdb)
Overlapped extent allocation (id = 22559, /New Gourds.aplibrary/Database/apdb/History.apdb)
Overlapped extent allocation (id = 22561, /New Gourds.aplibrary/Database/apdb/ImageProxies.apdb)
Overlapped extent allocation (id = 97730, /New Gourds.aplibrary/Database/History/Changes/0000000007.plist)
Overlapped extent allocation (id = 205763, /New Glass.aplibrary/Database/History/Changes/0000000015.plist)
Overlapped extent allocation (id = 265087, /Animals.aplibrary/Database/Folders/2cA6IPVGRQWfleHtAEgKTA.apfolder)
Overlapped extent allocation (id = 265091, /Animals.aplibrary/Database/Folders/LibraryFolder.apfolder)
Overlapped extent allocation (id = 265111, /Animals.aplibrary/Database/Keywords.plist)
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Overlapped extent allocation (id = 265407, /Animals.aplibrary/Database/Versions/2012/10/07/20121007-192826/+LVQTNHBRaCtWOv 95yR39w/Master.apmaster)
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Anyone have any ideas?
Mayte it is time to switch to Lightroom?

Two user accounts sharing aperture library constantly repairing permissions

My girlfriend and I each have a user account on our iMac. We have our Photo Library in a shared folder so we can both access it when using Aperture. However, every time I want to use Aperture, I have to first repair permissions. After doing this, everything runs fine.
Then, when my girlfriend tries to access Aperture, SHE has got to repair permissions first or Aperture gets hung up.
Basically, it appears that when I repair permissions in my user account, it messes up the permissions in her user account and vice versa. Has anyone ever experienced this behavior before and have they found a solution?
Thanks,
Rick

It is not sufficient to have the library in a shared folder. That will not help with the permissions inside the Aperture library package.
The safest way to use an Aperture library from two differnet accounts is to move it to a disk or disk partition that has the "Ignore Ownership on this volume" flag enabled. Then you can take turns using the Aperture library from your accounts.
The procedure is explained in this document for an iPhoto library, but it work also for an Aperture library.
iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198
Just remember, that any disk you are using for an Aperture library will have to be formatted for Mac:
MacOS Extented (Journaled).
My media drive with the Aperture library looks like this in "File > Get Info":

Aperture 3 does not work well since installing Mavericks. Constantly have to repair the library database. Any suggestions?

Aperture 3.5.1 was working well enough for me in Mountain Lion, but it seems that switching to Mavericks has made it slower, made it crash frequently and also given me frequent messages that the database is corrupt and I need to rebuild the database library, which I have done multiple times. I also use Aperture for Photo Stream, and it is especially slow and problematic there. Any ideas? Should I just use iPhoto instead? I'm more familiar with the flow in Aperture and would need to learn how better to use iPhoto, so that would be a last resort for me.

Aperture 3.5.1 was working well enough for me in Mountain Lion
Aperture 3.5.1 is incompatible with Mt. Lion - you must have had an earlier Aperture version running with Mt. Lion.
also given me frequent messages that the database is corrupt and I need to rebuild the database library
That message is prompted by the crashes. After a crash your library may need repairing.
Aperture 3.5.1 was working well enough for me in Mountain Lion, but it seems that switching to Mavericks has made it slower, made it crash frequently
Is all your software compatible with Mavericks? Plug-ins, external editors, preference panes, device drivers, video codecs? Did you install any other software, when you upgraded to Mavericks?
Where is your Aperture library? On your system drive or external drive?
Does Aperture also crash, if you launch it while holding down the Shift key?

Aperture Library Window Stuck

I wanted to import some albums from my Aperture library to iPhoto one. So I opened iPhoto and went to "File -> Show Aperture Library", and the problem is that this little window can't finish to load Aperture images, I was waiting for several hours and still "loading". I don't understand is it because my Aperture library is so huge or perhaps I have some other problems on my computer? Yesterday I went to sleep and left my computer on with that "Loading Aperture images..." and at morning there was still no use, still loading. My Aperture library is not that much big actually, around 12'000 of photos. Nu what to do?
Message was edited by: Alexander Maze

Yes, I have the last version of Aperture 3. I don't remember exact number of it, and cannot check out right now (I'm not at home), but for sure the latest version.

Last update to Aperture is stuck

I'm on 10.7.4 and that most recent update to Aperture gets stuck in the final step of updating the Aperture library. Everything went fine after the download, fine through the rest of the process. Then when I launch the application, it needs to go through the library update. At that point it hits the last step and gets stuck at 50%. Wont move after that, wont do anything. How can I redownload and reinstall the update?

This "hanging" probably is caused by inconsistencies in your Aperture Library. Then reinstalling the Application will not help. For most people it helped to force quit Aperture, when it gets stuck while upgrading the library and to rebuild the Aperture library before trying to upgrade again.
To rebuild the Aperture library use the "Aperture library First Aid Tools", see:
See: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library
Regards
Léonie

ITunes doesn't see Aperture Library - iMovie doesn't see Aperture Library

Issues:
Nearly all of my videos in the Aperture/iPhoto library do not show up when I select iPhoto library option in iMovie and iMovie is unable to locate them in any other way. Sometimes the option to select the iPhoto library is completely missing.
iTunes does not recognize my Aperture library, and I get the following message:
"Your Aperture Library could not be found. Open the preferences window in Aperture and enable the preference to share previews with other applications." After reading through forums and multiple Genius Bar appointments here is most of what I have done:
Created multiple new Aperture libraries, selected them in Aperture, rebooted, switched back and forth - Note: iTunes DID recognize the new blank libraries
Booted Aperture with the Command + Option keys and run all three options to repair permssions and even rebuilt the database
Booted Aperture with the Option key and selected the library I was using all along (this worked for someone in a forum)
Opened iPhoto (not Aperture) and selected an option to share photos
Run "Verify Disk Permissions" many times under Disk Utility
Run "Repair Disk Permissions" many times under Disk Utility
Reinstalled OSX
Reinstalled Aperture
Reinstalled iTunes
Reinstalled iMovie
Run a virus and malware scan (no issues)
Verified that Aperture was set to share previews and had a Genius go through all of my options to ensure they were correct in iTunes, Aperture, and iPhoto
Have ran "Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs" from the Command + Option + R recovery partition multiple times. Each time it just hangs for hours, the latest attempt ran for over 24 hours before I finally stopped it.
Oh yes, and I found and deleted the file com.apple.iApps.plist
None of these things fixed either of my issues. According the the Genius at my last appointment, now I have to call Apple Care and pay to get support. I must have misunderstood what the Genius Bar was about when I bought my Mac and why I purchased the One to One training. Before I call Apple Care, I was hoping someone might have run across this and can help me.
I asked the Genius if I now need to just create a new Aperture Library and move all of my content to it (that was the last resort for someone in a forum); however, he was concerned that even if this might work that I probably have deeper permission and/or other issues that need to be addressed and that doing so would not fix the root cause.
Thanks for taking the time to read through this issue.

Understood. I thought perhaps the period meant that I was finished and just needed to call Apple Care and fork out the fee.
The formats are primarily .MOV straight from the iPhone. Since going to a Mac, I have pretty much given up on using my Sony Handycam for family videos due to the pains of having to locate, identify, convert, and export AVCHD video to watch on Apple TV. It is just too easy to take video with my iPhone and import it and immediately watch it, although the quality is nothing close to a dedicated video camera, especially indoors and in lower light. All of the video formats in Aperture are supported and most all of my older home videos and Sony Handycam videos are sitting on an external drive (hoping that one day I will have the time to figure out a decent workflow to access them after I work all of the bugs out of iMovie). Great thought though.
All my content is managed. After a handful of One-to-One sessions at the Apple Store, I finally learned that you could not reference videos in iMovie and had to either have them in the iMovie Events directory or in iPhoto (at least that was what she said). Their solution was to import the videos into iPhoto so they could be easily accessed in iMovie. After I had issues mentioned in this post their solution was for me to purchase Aperture that could handle larger libraries. This was supposed to fix the issue and allow iMovie to see my videos. When that didn't work they said that I needed to purchase Final Cut Pro. I'm just a Dad who wants to make a few memorable home movies for his family and I don't think that I should have to purchase a $300 application, especially after paying a premium for my Mac and the iLife software, which I am deeply regretting. But I digress.
I have repaired permissions again and am in the process of repairing the library and will rebuild it again if that doesn't work. It is taking longer so I won't be able to post the results until a later time. Definitely worth a shot to try this again.
If this doesn't work I will take the time to create a new Aperture library. Like I previously mentioned, this was the last resort for another gentlemen who had a similar issue. After doing this it might explain why the "Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs" from the Command + Option + R recovery partition is getting hung up and not working. I'll post the results at a later date. If I could save just one person the time, gas, and stress I've experienced it would be worth it.
One additional question? I read a gentlemen's post that passionately argued against ever using iPhoto, Aperture, or iMovie to ever manage video files. He suggested using folders and a file naming system similar to what I used when I was on a PC using Adobe Elements. Do you have any thoughts on that?
For my situation, I have two concerns:
I'm afraid this would not allow me to watch the videos on Apple TV as simply as I can now (although I don't know this to be the case for certain). If the videos aren't in my photo library, I'm not sure how I would be able to access them through Apple TV.
Since I'm a proud Dad I have hundreds of video files spanning many years, so I also don't want to lose the ability to quickly peruse my event library and find content that I want to import into a project in iMovie. At one point I imported some video files to edit that weren't stored in iMovie, and I could only see the file name and date and had to guess if there was content on it that I wanted. When you have hundreds of clips like I do that isn't practical.
He argued that these programs were never meant to manage content and worked much more efficiently using this method. I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts.
Thanks again.

What is the best way to move an aperture library from one full drive to an external drive?

Just want to make sure I move my existing Aperture library on my internal drive (which is full) correctly to an external drive that has plenty of space.
Thanks for the help!

As I use a MBP with limited internal drive space, my approach is to have the image files on an external drive, while leaving the library itself on my internal drive. The library takes up about 80GB while the images are closer to 1TB.
The library always contains 'Thumbnails' of the images which it shows in place of the disconnected image files.
This means I can still open the library even when the external drive is not attached, and I can still do keywording and rating and organising and so on.
I also maintain 'Previews' for my best images. Previews are like thumbnails but larger in size and can be shared with other apps, so I can still use and share these copies of the images, again even while the external drive is not attached.
I don't like the idea of having the actual library on an external drive connected to a laptop (although I have done so from time to time without issue). There's always a chance it can become accidentially disconnected (kids, pets, etc) and if this happens while using Aperture it can corrupt your library. A corrupted library can be repaired with Apertures first aid tools, but it's better to avoid it in the frist place when you can.

How can I migrate an Aperture library from an external HDD with Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) format?

How can I migrate an Aperture library from an external HDD with Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) format?
I used to store my pictures on an external hard drive using the latest version of Aperture. Now I tried migrating my Aperture library to Photos. However, after a short moment an error message popped up telling me that "Photos was unable to make a copy of your library before preparing it. Photos does not have the necessary permissions...".
My external HDD doesn't need any permission repairs nor is the system prohibited to read from or write to it.
Thanks for any advice in advance!
Gohtac

My guess is that the encryption is the problem for the new app.

Restoring Aperture Library from Vault

Hi all,
I hope someone can help. I recently had my 'Drobo' die on me as two discs failed at the same time. I also have a copy of my Aperture Library backed up in a Vault. I have carried out a 'Restore from Vault' and my new external HD shows 1.5TB of data (same as my original library). When I open Aperture, I can see all my folders and projects, but each project has no photos in it. I have tried repairing the database and rebuilding the database using the option key on start up, but I repeatedly get to approx 83-89% complete and my system hangs and I get a message that I have run out of applications memory. I then get the Spinning wheel and eventually have to reboot the iMac.
1. How can I recover my data?
2. Is there anything else I can/should do? Am I doing anything wrong?
3. Is there anyway of recvering the files seperately of the external hard drive with other data recovery software?
I am running Aperture the most uptodate version of Aperture 3.4.x, on OS X Mavericks, on a 3.4GHz i7 iMac with 12GB ram.
One point I may need to add, I was backing up to Vault when my 'Drobo' unit failed, although based on the size of the vault, I think it had finished backing up, although can not be certain.
Any help/assistance or advice would be greatfully received as I have lost my library, its parity due to two failed drives simultaneously and possibly a corrupt vault(?).
Thank you in advance for your help.
Paul W

Will rebuilding the library place the images into their correct projects/folders?
Will rebuilding return the images to their edited version state?
This library is the restored library from your vault, correct?
What seems to be missing are all of the 'version' images processed in Aperture.
In what way "missing"? Are all your projects empty or are you seeing broken thumbnails of the missing images in the projects?
I am afraid, rebuilding will not be able to reconnect the "recovered" originals to the versions. The images are in the "Recovered" project, because Aperture does not know the link to the version.
If your missing versions are still showing thumbnails, however correpted, you could use the lift&stamp tool to transfer the adjustments from the unusuable versions to the recovered versions.
But that would be a bit daunting for 14000 recovered originals.
I'd try something different - quick and dirty emergency measure: Try to open your vault directly on the drive where it is now without restoring it.
Keep the restored library you are now having save and don't delete it.
Change the filename extension of your vault to ".aplibrary", this will turn the vault into an Aperture library and try to open it directly in Aperture by double clicking it. This needs to be done in-place, on the Drobo-attached drive where you originally created the vault. Do not move it.
Aperture will now try to open the vault as the current Aperture library and upgrade it. There is a slim chance, that the links between originals and versions will remain intact, if the vault is not restored to a different volume but repaired in-place on the original volume.
Frank, what do you think? Should Snurge first try to repair the permissions on the drive?
-- Léonie

ITunes can't see Aperture Library - iMovie can't see most videos in Aperture Library

Issues:
Nearly all of my videos in the Aperture/iPhoto library do not show up when I select iPhoto library option in iMovie and iMovie is unable to locate them in any other way.
iTunes does not recognize my Aperture library, and I get the following message:
"Your Aperture Library could not be found. Open the preferences window in Aperture and enable the preference to share previews with other applications."
After reading through forums and multiple Genius Bar appointments here is most of what I have done:
Created multiple new Aperture libraries, selected them in Aperture, rebooted, switched back and forth - Note: iTunes DID recognize the new blank libraries
Booted Aperture with the Command + Option keys and run all three options to repair permssions and even rebuilt the database
Booted Aperture with the Option key and selectedthe library I was using all along (this worked for someone in a forum)
Opened iPhoto (not Aperture) and selected an option to share photos
Run "Verify Disk Permissions" many times under Disk Utility
Run "Repair Disk Permissions" many times under Disk Utility
Reinstalled OSX
Reinstalled Aperture
Reinstalled iTunes
Run a virus and malware scan (no issues)
Verified that Aperture was set to share previews and had a Genius go through all of my options to ensure they were correct in iTunes, Aperture, and iPhoto
Have ran "Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs" from the Command + Option + R recovery partition multiple times. Each time it just hangs for hours, the latest attempt ran for over 24 hours before I finally stopped it.
Oh yes, and I found and deleted the file com.apple.iApps.plist
None of these things fixed either of my issues. According the the Genius at my last appointment, now I have to call Apple Care and pay to get support. I must have misunderstood what the Genius Bar was about when I bought my Mac and why I purchased the One to One training. Before I call Apple Care, I was hoping someone might have run across this and can help me.
I asked the Genius if I now need to just create a new Aperture Library and move all of my content to it (that was the last resort for someone in a forum); however, he was concerned that even if this might work that I probably have deeper permission and/or other issues that need to be addressed and that doing so would not fix the root cause.
Thanks for taking the time to read through this issue.

It was suggested that I post this in the Aperture forum, so I did. I didn't know that you couldn't delete or edit your own posts on this site. I apologize for the duplicate post and this can be deleted if an admin is so inclined.

My aperture library won't open - it's stored on an external R6 pegasus drive?

Have been through the various other threads and followed most of the ideas - repair disk permissions, plist delete, rebuild database.
The application works ok and when it is not trying to access the library stored on the pegasus it works fine - I guess the librray on the pegasus must be corrupted some how but can I get to the unerlying files and re-import?
Help!?

Yes it's Mac OS extended. I've had it working before but since the file size became so large (200GB+) it has started to have problems. I just tried it with another laptop where I installed a new version of aperture and it said that the library rebuild had been interrupted. It restarted the rebuild and now I can get access but I'm worried about the stability going forward and every time I try to move the aperture library (by copying it to another external drive) or update the vault it just hangs.
So I'm not sure whether this is an imac issue, an aperture issue or a problem with the compatibility of the pegasus storage (I suspect the latter)?
Any thoughts on what to do or just cross my fingers and hope it doesn't happen again??

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