Since updating to LION 10.7.1 I am unable to rate or label (with a color) more than one image at a time. This makes sorting and selecting pictures very difficult! I haven't seen any posts on this particular apparently LION-related issue. Does anybody else see this behaviour or better, have a solution?
I am able to rate multiple photos. Are you sure you didn’t enable the Primary Only button at the bottom right of the viewer? (The button shaped like a rectangle with a “1” inside) When this button is “on”, only the image with the thick white border is affected. This is called the primary image.
Thomas
Nick,
I’m sure that’s the problem… can you please respond and let us know if you got it working?
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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Joseph,
Thanks for your interest in this issue. The problem with the slideshow was that all my customized settings for each image (time, Ken Burns effects) were reset to the default values. Now I’m working through all the 600 or so pictures.
Unfortunately my plist file is irretrievably lost: Deleted and the trash emptied.
I have not used the Primary Only button at all up to now. But having seen its virtues I have followed your example and assigned it to a key!
I was on holiday in Juist, but live in Duesseldorf on the banks of the Rhine.
Nick
Nick,
I still don’t believe that the settings for the slideshow were related to the trashing of the preferences—they simply aren’t stored there. Something else must have happened, perhaps an Aperture crash while working on the slideshow? Anyway, sorry to hear that the work was lost. Never an easy thing :(
Yes, the Primary Only button is dead handy!
And Düsseldorf is a great city… love it there. Nice beer ;-)
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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Thanks for the feedback Thomas. I am away from home for a week with only an old Windows-laptop and no Aperture. So I can’t say whether your suggestion about the Primary Only button would have solved my problem. It certainly sounds very plausible - I prabably hit this button inadvertantly.
As it is I finally phoned Apple support in exasperation. They didn’t know the problem or have your suggestion. But their idea of deleting the file Aperture.plist* in the library did the trick. Probably this reset the Primary Only button! Unfortunately hours of work on a slideshow with Ken Burns effects got lost at the same time. If only I’d waited a couple of hours more I could have tried your approach.
Thanks again,
and Greetings from the island of Juist in the North Sea,
Nick
*I’m not 100% sure of the file name or exactly where it was: I can fill in these details when I get home.
Nick,
Juist? I think it’s safe to say you’re my only visitor from there! (Or not… maybe you have a dozen Aperture-using friends nearby) ;-)
Yes, trashing the plist would definitely reset the Primary Only state. How annoying that Apple Support couldn’t figure that out on their own. Ugh.
I’m concerned though that you say you lost work on a slideshow. This doesn’t seem possible unless it loaded a new Library, and you’d have said that I think if it had. When you say it was “lost”, what exactly do you mean? Was the slide show missing entirely, or was the slide show there but without all your customized settings?
Also if you still have the original plist file that they had you trash, you could put it back (and trash the new one) and if your slideshow is back. But again… too weird.
The location of the plist is:
/Users/joseph/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Aperture.plistHere’s the Primary Only button [screenshot]. I’ve remapped my keyboard shortcut to simply ‘S’, because I use it all the time and “solo” (same as Primary Only) is a Final Cut Pro command I was used to.
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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