OK, there are still a few kinks in the linen but on the whole the new Aperture is a very capable and impressive piece of software. One of the gremlins that got to me and a number of other people on the forums was the Aperture crash on startup in 64 bit mode. There appear to be two workarounds here:
1. Start in 32 bit mode: Go to your applications folder, right click on aperture and click the little box which says start in 32 bit mode.
2. Reserialise. I didn’t want to run Aperture 3 in 32 bit mode, this solution fixed the problem on my machine by following the steps below.
(a) Check you’ve got all your serial numbers. If you’re upgrading then make sure you have your Aperture 2 serial numbers.
(b) Navigate to /Library/Application Support/ProApps/
(c) Delete the file Aperture System ID
(d) Start Aperture and enter the license keys
(e) Hey presto, all working!
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Thanks! Was bugging me and this fixed it!!!
I did as suggested
I do not have ProApps!
/Library/Application Support/ProApps
I have searched Finder for ProApps, but not found.
And Aperture crashes once every 2-3 days.
If I AppZapp Aperture 3 now (after having all Faces recognised & a lot of Places made), then re-install it like you propose, will it go through the whole scanning for Faces again? And I loose all my Faces & Places data?
had similar problem – 64-bit Trial version wouldn’t let me register it, just crashed each time.
launch in 32-bit and enter key, works okay. install 3.01 upgrade, switch to 64-bit, now works okay too.