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Extreme Nightmare - Aperture Won't Open #1
John Dunnigan's picture
by John Dunnigan
March 23, 2013 - 9:34pm

Hello All -

Each time I attempt to open my Aperture library I now get a window that says something like “Aperture quit while attempting to restore its windows. Do you want to attempt to restore it's windows?” I have two choices – Don't Restore Windows or Restore Windows. No matter which one I choose I then get the window that says “Opening Aperture - name of my library” and the gear that continually spins. The spinning beach ball also appears. This goes on for about 30 minutes before it appears to quit trying and my computer monitor (ACD 23inch) goes black. Although the computer still appears to be running I have to manually reboot the system by shutting everything down and turning it back on. Once the computer is restarted, Aperture still tries to open. I am able to Force Quit. I have then attempted to open Aperture by holding down the Option key (so I could attempt to open my other library on an external drive or so that I could attempt to create a new library. I still get the window that asks whether I want to rebuild window or not. I have also attempted to open Aperture while holding down Option + Command. Still get the same thing – Spinning beach ball, spinning gear while attempting to restore windows, then the crash and black screen.

Now let me explain how this all started – I imported a new project (319 images). Everything appeared to go just fine, I was even able to backup the entire library (typically, once I import a new project my next step is to backup my library before doing anything else). All thumbnails were there, all previews seemed to have generated. However, some of the previews were scrambled at the bottom when first appearing on the screen, but in a second they would render normally. I attempte to regrenerate previews in an attempt to fix the scrambling. This did not work. I restarted my computer (sometimes this help to “refresh” everthing). When attempting to open Aperture I would then get a window that said “Apeture has detected inconsistencies in you library” with the option to restore. This happened several times, but each time the restoration process appeared to go fine since my library successfully opened. However, a new problem appeared. Now there were no thumbnails. However, I could still click on a thumbnail and see the image in the browser. Attempted to regenerate thumbnails. This did not work.

Since I still had all the images on my CF card I decided to start fresh by deleting the project and re-importing the images. Importing the project seemed to be going fine but suddenly stopped at 67% complete. I cancelled the import, deleted the images that had imported (they had no thumbnails), and was going to start the re-importing process again. And this has now brought me to the situation described in the first paragraph above – No matter what I do, attempt to open normally, attempt to open by holding down Option key, attempt to open by holding down Option + Command key – I just get the window that says “Opening Aperture - name of my library” with the spinning gear and spinning beach ball, followed by a crash and sudden black screen. Sometimes it still asks me if I want to attempt to restore windows, but I get the exact same result.

I am at a complete loss and have absolutely no idea what to do now. I do have a backup of my library and I still have the images of my last shoot on my CF card. If I delete the library from my pictures folder can I then create a new library and build it using my backup?

Please help. Desperate!

John

David  Moore's picture
by David Moore
March 23, 2013 - 11:06pm

When you say it crashes do you get a crash report? Have your used disk utilities to repair the HD and check permissions, this is always good to try. Id boot into safe Mode and then restart again. Your camera card may be faulty so use another program other that Ap to figure out which images are bad and delete them. Hope that helps but write back and let us know.

davidbmoore@mac.com
Twitter= @davidbmoore
Scottsdale AZ

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by David Moore
March 23, 2013 - 11:09pm

I suppose you could go into the lib Pkg and delete the thumbnails, previews, and originals of the images. But someone else with experience should chime in give you advise on that. Cheers

davidbmoore@mac.com
Twitter= @davidbmoore
Scottsdale AZ

David  Moore's picture
by David Moore
March 23, 2013 - 11:15pm

sorry, keep thinking of things. How old is your computer and how much ram. Black screen could be a video card problem. When looking at the cf card with another program that should confirm a corrupted CF card or not. You make Vaults after every import … Do you have two one older than the other. If so you could also rebuild from the older Lib., but you probably already thought of that. Lots of choices for you do let us know
Cheers david

davidbmoore@mac.com
Twitter= @davidbmoore
Scottsdale AZ

Andrew Mumford's picture
by Andrew Mumford
March 24, 2013 - 1:45am

Try moving the library or renaming the library ext so Aperture can’t see it and see if you can force Aperture to create a fresh library on open.

If that doesn’t work try deleting the Aperture preferences, (search the site for instr’s, I think).

Use Image Capture to check the images on the card. Since it’s Apple tech if it has a problem so will Aperture …

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Andrew Mumford

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by John Dunnigan
March 24, 2013 - 2:20am

Hello Everyone –

First, I’d like to thank everyone who has responded. I love this community, have been an Aperture user since the beginning, use it daily, come here often & have learned a lot by reading posts & searching for answers. I don’t post much mostly because I simply don’t have answers or feel that I have much to contribute.

Here it goes - Before trying anything more drastic I decided to try and open my library while holding down the SHIFT key (read that suggestion somewhere). Miraculously, I got the opening screen, but with the beach ball. I decided to wait. After about 30 minutes to an hour (not sure, my mind was a mess) a window came up stating that aperture had detected inconsistencies, the application would quit, restart, and rebuild. It also warned me that it could take some time. I then got the spinning beach ball (Aperture did not quit as it stated it would do).

I restarted my computer by choosing that option from the Apple menu at the top of the screen. Upon restart Aperture opened immediacy with the message telling me that inconsistencies were detected and that it would rebuild. It immediately started the rebuilding process. Once finished, all of my previous work was there – With versions, previews, thumbnails as well as all edits. (Thank goodness!).

I then decided to use a different card reader to attempt importing once again yesterday’s shoot. (Risky, I know, but I didn’t know what else to do). The project imported perfectly…. Almost. Thumbnails only generated for the first 28 images out of 319. However, if I click on a thumbnail its preview shows perfectly in the browser window. Also, if I duplicate and image a thumbnail IS generated for the duplicate version, just not the original. I can perform all attempted edits on the duplicate version – white balance, rotation, black point. I have tried to have generate thumbnails by choosing that option from the Photos menu at the top. It tells me hat it is processing but when finished there are no thumbnails generated. Next, I will attempt to export a shot to Photoshop for more detailed editing and see if those edits save back into Aperture successfully.

Thanks again for all of he replies.

Sincerely,

John

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