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I am not able to open Places. Each time I click the icon I get the color wheel of death, after a while I have to Force Quit the program. There are about 6000 photos contained in Aperture, but almost 90% of that number is stored on a separate HDD and accessed by the program from there. Places has not opened any time I've tired it over a 3-day period, always freezing the program and always requiring Force Quit.
Is there a fix for this? Or is Places not functioning if one has a large number of places?

I was able to get 'places' working on my Mac Pro by opening a library I created on my Macbook Pro (no crashing experienced in that install from the start) that contained a single geotagged image. The function works fine even after deleting the image, it just seemed to need the location data to get it kicking. I was creating a new library (since started as a trial) and was not upgrading an version 2 library.
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