Issues with Aperture since recent RAW update?

All of a sudden, I am having intermittent problems with Aperture 3. Everything was going along just fine and now I am having repeated problems with my perfectly good RAW file that I have just uploaded that looks very normal, suddenly switch to a terrible dirty swimming pool green!  And I get a little box in the Inspector Panel, on the left, at the top under the "Presets" and "Adjustments" drop down menus that says

it also includes a button to "Reprocess".  

How could it have been adjusted using an earlier version when I just uploaded it? This is the only version of Aperture I've ever had, though there was an update recently. I am 99% sure that this problem began shortly after I updated.

Clicking the "Reprocess" button does nothing. The only way I've been able to get my photo back to normal is to make a "New Version from the Master". This usually works, though sometimes I have had to do it 3 or 4 times until it "sticks". Interestingly the thumbnails for these Greened out photos look perfectly normal.

There are quite a few posts in the Apple Discussion Forum about this happening, so I'm not alone...but thus far I'm not getting any real sense of what to do.

I've sent reports in to Apple via Aperture. I will have to call and be prepared to spend quite a bit of I guess to find out what's up and hope to get someone who can explain it to me....but I thought I'd post here to see if anyone here is experiencing this and what, if anything, they've done to fix it.

Thanks for reading and here's hoping!

 

Thanks for responding you two. Well, when I have time I will have to dig more deeply but there are quite a few posts in the Apple discussion forums, etc.

I keep hoping it will magically heal itself.

John, I'll recheck the trouble shooting stuff.

Why can't this stuff be simple? Where's my film camera?

I'm sure eventually it will be AOK.

Keep me posted antithetic!

 

Thank you all.

I'm going to need help if I have to do anything like uninstalling, etc., so I'll have to get on the phone on that.

Yes, Ray, I have a brand new MacBook Pro with plenty of memory and power. This all came about since the recent RAW update. There are quite a few discussions on the Apple forums, etc.

It's very disturbing but I have not made the time to call up and hang on the phone. I will have to do it soon though because the issue seems to be morphing... Now the reprocess button does do something but it is not good. The update included RAW for the E-PL1, but it is screwing up all sorts of people's already supported cameras...Canons, Nikons, Leica X1...etc.

I'm just not comfortable trying to do this kind of stuff on my own so I will contact a computer fellow who I've paid over the years to see if he can hold my hand or something. I'll be happy to uninstall the latest RAW update if I can.

Thanks for offering your help. For some reason I didn't see that this thread had gotten more replies.

 

No, this issue is both with formerly supported cameras and newly supported cameras. It's an odd thing and intermittent but until this recent RAW update I had no problems. As soon as I can which is probably going to be Tuesday here in the USA, I'll attempt to get to the bottom of this.

 

Thanks John. I'm not sure what this really means, but I'll stay tuned.

P.S. Thank you Grant. I do need to block out some time for a phone call. Here is the issue, I am guessing that you all did not do the latest RAW update, did you?

 

Appreciate your input John. Maybe I'll add my two cents in this week, if I can make the time to talk to someone. If I weren't being bothered personally, I'd find it more intellectually interesting. I was a happy camper before this RAW update, but such is life.

As you explained, eventually it will all get settled and I don't make my living at photography, that's for sure.:tongue: In the greater scheme of even my own little orbit, it's small potatoes...only gets to me when it turns the photo green.

P.S. No, sorry to say this has not made a difference in the positive at all. I will have to go to the source.

 

It was an update that supported several new cameras' for their RAW formats. You can search Apple's software updates... I posted about it here, so I think there is a thread, actually. I was excited because now Aperture 3 supports the E-PL1, among other cameras. There just seems to be a glitch that causes intermittent issues, as I described above. So if you don't need to update, due to the camera support, then I would hold off.

P.S. Here is the thread with the specific cameras listed https://www.mu-43.com/f74/aperture-3-iphoto-9-raw-compatibility-3-3-update-4741/

 

Hmm, thanks, John - I don't have a vintage MacBook Pro anymore. I have a new one...I suppose it could be called a "mid 2010" one, and it is a 15 inch one. I believe I bought it in June. It would be nice if this was the fix, though there's no mention of my issue re the RAW reprocessing of a camera that had already been supported before the update... It gets old to repeat it, and I'm sure it gets old for people who have read my story and, fortunately, haven't experienced it.

I guess I'll give it a try, John! I was offline for almost two days!  It'a amazing I'm still able to function.

Grant, glad to hear you haven't suffered any of the issues some of the rest of "us" have.

I guess I'll give this update a try and keep my fingers crossed.