I'm using Aperture 3.2.1 with the latest Lion.
When entering fullsceen mode the screen sometimes turns black (and stays black until restarting the program). Sometimes fullscreen works ok until I open some project and after that switching from project to project doesn't work anymore. Program doesn't freeze or crash or anything - it's just stuck “loading” some project. After this even disabling fullscreen won't help and normal mode is also stuck in loading.
The problem started when upgrading to lion and has varied somewhat with upgrades. I have tried repairing the library and rebuilding it, opened the same library from another user, reseted the prefs etc and even imported my old pics to a new library and still the problem persists! Tried also 32-bit mode and reinstalling aperture.
Any fresh ideas? Seems that this is a problem not experienced by many so I started also to wonder if it could be a symptom of a faulty graphics card?
Using macbook pro 13” (early 2011).
Thanks in advance if you can help me.
Matti,
Well, you’ve pretty well exhausted everything I was going to suggest ;-)
You said “resetting prefs”, does that mean you threw them away?
I suppose it could be a graphics card issue, that’s entirely possible. Only other thing I can think to suggest is to reinstall Lion.
Oh try trashing the cache at ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Aperture folder
Do you have an Apple Store nearby? They could run a diagnostics and see if they spot anything wrong with the graphics card.
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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I once had an issue with fullscreen mode not working right. I couldn’t change photos while in fullscreen mode but when I exited I found that the browser actually was on a different photo. Not exactly the same symptom as you but maybe related. Worth a try.
I fixed my problem by running AppleJack which cleans out cache files, fixes permissions, verifies preference files, etc. You can find it here: http://applejack.sourceforge.net/ (This page seems to load very slowly) Once you install it, you need to restart in Single User mode (hold Command-S at the beep sound) then type “applejack auto restart” return.
There’s an article on AppleJack here: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10334620-263.html?tag=mfiredir
Or maybe just clearing the Aperture caches as Joseph suggests is all you need.
Thomas
Hi.
Thanks for the fresh ideas and quick replies. I tried both and sadly no change in aperture.. I will probably reinstall the whole system from scratch (even though the whole idea makes me shudder) and if even that doesn’t help try to have the hardware diagnosed.
Thanks anyway!