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by Judith Berges
September 11, 2010 - 11:07pm

Importing images from an SD card, the import finishes rather quickly, but processing goes on and on - often for an hour or more for 50 or so images. During this time the program freezes - ie. I cannot select another image to view. Is this normal, or what am I doing wrong? Thank you! JudyTours

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by Judith Berges
October 5, 2010 - 6:45am

Hello -
Still having problems when Aperture opens. I am using referenced files, located on an external hard drive, with an automatic backup on another external drive. When I open Aperture, I immediately go to window for showing “activity” - and if I am lucky I get there before the program doesn’t even allow me a cursor — just the spinning ball. The activity window always shows “Processing” but after it “invalid.” Any suggestions would be greatly appreciatred.

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by PhotoJoseph
September 12, 2010 - 1:40am

Judith,

Definitely not normal. Can you elaborate on what’s happening when it freezes? Open the Activity Monitor while importing and watch what happens, and see if you can figure out exactly where it gets stuck. You can open it from the menu Window > Show Activity or by clicking on the spinner that will show up in the bottom left corner of the Viewer while importing.

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by Judith Berges
September 13, 2010 - 7:47am

Joseph -
Thanks for the prompt reply. It seems to stop when it gets to importing movies. I am saving images as referenced, and also a backup folder as I load the images.

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by PhotoJoseph
September 14, 2010 - 5:28am

Judith,

OK, let’s try a few things. First, do an import without any movies. Does it go just fine? If it does, try importing the movies on their own. Hopefully they get stuck… if not, then this will be harder to figure out :)

Assuming they do get stuck, what format are these movies—what’s the extension… .MOV, .AVI, or ?? Also what camera are these coming off of?

If removing the movies doesn’t help, and the still still get stuck on their own, keep watching that activity monitor and see if you can determine where it’s getting stuck now.

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by PhotoJoseph
October 5, 2010 - 6:38pm

Judith,

This thread started with an issue on import; it sounds like the problem has grown. Before this on-launch issue began, were you able to resolve the import issue with any of the suggestions I gave?

It could be some kind of corrupted file that Aperture is choking on. Have you tried repairing the database yet by holding command-option down on launch?

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by Judith Berges
October 6, 2010 - 10:08am

Yes, I tried without movies, and that helped, but then the same problem again. I just now have used the command-option on launch, and it seems to have helped. Hope I don’t need to bother you with this again! But what a wonderful feeling to know you are there to help, and I can’t tell you how helpful your books have been! THANKS!

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by Judith Berges
October 9, 2010 - 6:09am

Hello -
Things seemed fine at first. Storing on external hard drive, and now when I open program, immediately the ball is spinning, and I have no cursor to do anything. I once again started using command-option, and the same thing happens. I can’t access anything. Is this possibly a problem that files and library are on an external drive? THANKS

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by Judith Berges
October 9, 2010 - 6:20am

Hi -
Just tried to again do command-option, and at least got into the program when that finished. But the activity window still says “PROCESSING - INVALID.” The ball spins, and I can’t do anything further. Thanks.

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by harringg
October 9, 2010 - 11:29pm

Sort a tie in. I had a batch of 1000+ images selected and I wanted to invoke the keyword HUD (Shift-H), I accidentally pressed Ctrl-H (Adjustments>Highlight/Shadow) and realized what I had done. I selected the images, when to Photos>Reset All Adjustments about as quickly as I applied the setting. It’s been an hour since then and the photos are still ‘processing’. In Window>Show Activity it’s one at a time adjusting the images back. If it didn’t have time to apply the adjustment to all the images, why the long time to remove the adjustments?

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by PhotoJoseph
October 12, 2010 - 6:09pm

harring, please start a new thread with your concern. Thanks.

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by PhotoJoseph
October 12, 2010 - 6:20pm

Judith,

Apologies for the delayed reply. There was a bug in the system here and I wasn’t notified of any new posts for several days, and I’m still finding them!

It sounds like there are some larger issues at play here, perhaps a slow or fragmented external hard drive, or permissions issues, or both.

When you’ve run the command-option on launch routines, have you applied all three (repair permissions, repair library, rebuild library), or have you just done some of them? I’d do the permissions for sure asap.

Also on the external drive, if you select the drive in the Finder and File > Get Info on it, do you have “Ignore ownership on this volume” selected? If not, please do enable that. You may have to unlock it (click the lock icon and enter your system password) first.

If you can, copy the entire library to another hard drive and run from there—see if you get the same issues.

Another user I was helping found a way to repair an otherwise unrepairable Library that you can try as well, although it takes some time and disk space. He selected everything in the Library (go to the Library view and select all) and exported the selection from File > Export > Project as New Library. He opened that resulting Library and repaired permissions, and finally was able to get back to work. You may want to consider this as well.

Reading back, I see that you thought the problem was resolved when you stopped importing movies, but you never did tell me what kind of movies they are and from what kind of camera. Although doubtful, I suppose it’s possible that Aperture is still choking on some file type that it doesn’t like on the movies that you’d already imported. Do you still have movies in your Library from this camera?

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