I recently had the battery run out on the laptop while I had aperture open (our toddler knocked the power cable off and I didnt notice until after it turned off).
When I restarted the laptop (macbook pro 17”) and restarted Aperture, I got an error - with a suggestion to repair the library by restarting Aperture with Option+Cmd. When I do, I get the option to repair permissions, repair database, or rebuild database.
When I try and repair database, I get the error: “Time machine is backing up Aperture Library - Aperture Library cannot be opened until Time Machine has finished.
The problem is I am not running time machine. I used to, but I had an issue with the Time Machine destination - so it has been turned off for a while. That said, I am running CrashPlan - but its turned off at the moment also (because I am in a low-bandwidth location, and I dont want to be backing up some 50G of photos I have just imported).
My questions is: How do I convince Aperture that Time Machine is _not_ backing up anything so that it can go about its normal rebuild business?
Cheers…
Update: Aperture 3.5.1 on OSX 10.9.4 Mavericks
Actually turn off time machine in system preferences rather than not having it connected?
Cold boot?
Delete .plist (see FAQ)?
In that order
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Oh and might as well check permissions in disk utility before deleting the .plist
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Time Machine is turned off (for a couple of months now)
I performed a cold-boot.
I checked disk permissions/etc using disk utility.
I guess next step is to read up about the .plist in the FAQ….
Just remember to write down what you use the colour codes for before trashing .plist. It will also reset your default adjustment set no great loss. Can’t think of anything else vital it messes up, had to do it often enough!
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Hm. I deleted the com.apple.Aperture.plist (there was a com.apple.Aperture.plist.lockfile too - which I also deleted).
I restarted Aperture - same errors….
Doesn’t seem to have done anything…
On your Time Machine disk there is probably a .InProgress file left behind that is fooling your system into thinking Time Machine is still backing up your system. Look here where it is explained in more detail. Troubleshooting TimeMachine
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Try the old adage: turn it off and back on again. In this case, the other way around; if the Time Machine volume is connected, turn ™ on, then back off, in case it will clear it. Then try unmountung the TM volume (which the system will only let you do if it believes it is not in use). Even if it says can’t unmount and you know it hasn’t been in use, it is safe after all this time to just disconnect it physically to force the system.
Hi same problem. did something work? thanks