aperture 3 - stalls when exporting

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aperture 3 is a bloody disgrace. OK, now I've got that over with, here is the problem:

If i try and export a batch of images (kinda the whole point in aperture) it gets to a point (normally before the tenth photo) and just hangs there. The prog is still running, but it just doesnt want to export anymore.

I've got new clients that need their shots yesterday, and this piece of crap is annoying me.

I've done all the 3 different rebuilds (permissions, database, etc etc)

I've turned off faces, and previews.

In the task manager it keeps flashing up 'generating thumbnails 1'
then it goes away, then its keeps coming back... god knows why. I've never seen it do that before.
 
I can sympathise fully with your summary. Aperture 3 is a joke. I'm a long term user of Aperture and I wish I had never upgraded.

The problems I've had:

1. Hanging on 'Processing' or 'Processing Thumbnails', only resolved by force quitting.
2. Refusing to export.
3. Incorrect thumbnails to previews. Unbelievable but true.
4. Zoom an image, zoom out and the preview is a pixelated jumble.
5. The 'spinning pizza' with any editing function.

I've reported my faults during the hundreds of times it's crashed. It's almost unusable, yet the only upgrade recently was to address an issue with slideshows?

The only solution I found to work was to start the program in 32bit mode, then rebuild and repair the library and database. It's still a mess, but I can do some work with it.
 
Stop Press!!

I notice that version 3.0.2 has just been released which states that it addresses a whole list of problems. We'll see:D:D

Available through 'software update' on the Mac.
 
I am yet to have any problems with aperture 3? Has the update sorted yours?
 
Hasn't sorted mine. It's a useless piece of software as it stands for me anyway. I've got a library which I converted from AP2 to AP3 of around 25,000 images and it can't seem to process that.

I was on the phone to an Aperture bloke at Apple yesterday and the solutions they offered were, to be frank, crap. I was told to start AP3 holding down shift which stops 'some' of the background processes. This didn't work for me.

The second was to create and start a new library, which I done, then export projects from my old library 5 at a time, try editing them and see if I get the 'processing' error until I've transferred them all. I have 700 projects which would take me years. I abandoned it because the 'processing' hang up happened even on the new library!

It would seem to me that they have no idea what is wrong as it seems to affect a lot of machines. I'm fed up with it now but thankfully I've still got all of my masters so if I switch to something else, then I don't have Aperture versions only. If they don'y sort it soon, I'll soon be a Lightroom buyer!!
 
I dumped Aperture at version 1.5 and jumped ship to Lightroom but as an Apple user I am quite gobsmacked by just how buggy Aperture 3 appears to have been at launch. It appears to have been launched in a beta test state. This is supposed to be professional software for professional people. Professional do not expect or deserve something that is not finished! It is shocking really for a company like Apple.
 
ding76uk said:
Are the bugs happening to a lot of people? Haven't heard many others speak about problems.

Seriously wanting to upgrade, as features seem really useful to me, but if it really is that buggy, will wait a while for it to sort out in future updates.
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There are a few bugs, but nothing that's a show stopper for me. I know a lot of users are very happy with it, but the people finding bugs are always more vocal than those without.
 
ding76uk said:
Are the bugs happening to a lot of people? Haven't heard many others speak about problems.

Seriously wanting to upgrade, as features seem really useful to me, but if it really is that buggy, will wait a while for it to sort out in future updates.
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I don't know the figures but I do know a lot of people who are having similar problems with 3, most of the mac users I know personally are having the same issues (more or less) I'm very supprised at Apple letting it out like this.
 
ding76uk said:
Be great f you coudl keep this thread updated with your findings Gary.
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its going to be like the guy falling from the top of the empire state building

so far so good, so far so good, so far so good, so far so good, so far so good, so far so good, so far.... splat!
 
I'll follow this thread with interest having had one problem with 3 which lost me my photo drive but I had a back up & have not used it since
 
Gary said:
its going to be like the guy falling from the top of the empire state building

so far so good, so far so good, so far so good, so far so good, so far so good, so far so good, so far.... splat!
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Look forward to seeing your results from the weekend, and hope that you don't end up a blood splattered mess at the end of it all:D

Did you use Ap 2 before this, and any probs with that at all?
 
I'm still having problems but I think I've isolated it down to the retouching/spot tool, possibly in combination with the rotate tool.

I shoot a lot of film and I use the spot tool to remove the dust and with my version of Aperture 3, I can do about 10 retouches, zoomed, on an image then the 'processing' comes up, and the program hangs. I'm convinced this is where the fault is.

Sadly (!!), my work around is to import the images from the scanner into iPhoto, crop and retouch, then open the iPhoto browser in Aperture, and drag them into the desired project. Odd that I'm having to resort to this with a 'pro' app, but that works so far for me.

Incidentally, the keywording, cropping, and spot repair are better in iPhoto anyway. Reminds me of how good a program iPhoto really is, even compared to Aperture 3.
 
Hi,

Sorry for resurrecting this thread. I recently bought a macbook pro because I had heard great things about Aperture. It's crashed on me a few times which I am finding annoying but my biggest problem now is that I can't export any of my photos!

Does anyone know a fix for this? I'm currently wishing I hadn't bothered buying this piece of software and sticking with a windows pc...
 
I found with Aperture 3 the only way I could get decent performance out of it was to start a fresh library, and of course turn off faces. Previously it was dog slow and hang often whilst exporting.

Touch wood after starting the new library abut 6 months back it's still running fine. I also consolidate masters quite regularly, not sure if that's anything to do with it? I'm running a year old Mac Mini with 4gb RAM.

If I could have afforded LR3 though I'd have gone with it - couldn't really argue with the 50 quid I got Aperture 3 for though!
 
I don't use faces , so have no idea what effect that would have, but I just selected 39 images and exported all without any problems at all.

Aperture 3.1.1
Digital Camera Raw 3.6
iMac i7 with 12GB ram.
 
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