Rebuild Your Aperture Library
2006-06-29
I rebuilt my Aperture library today, and you can too.
It's easy to do: Quit Aperture, hold Option and Command and launch Aperture with a double click on the application icon. Answer the dialogs to allow the rebuild.
14,000 images took about half an hour. Now selecting Projects, selecting Smart Albums, scrolling, everything is much faster than it was. My guess is that this rebuild redoes all of the files that reference the structure of the projects and their contents. This makes the accesses sequential and uses files that have been defragmented, so speeding what I see.
I'm waiting a while on installing 10.4.7, but have heard that it improves Aperture as well.
It's easy to do: Quit Aperture, hold Option and Command and launch Aperture with a double click on the application icon. Answer the dialogs to allow the rebuild.
14,000 images took about half an hour. Now selecting Projects, selecting Smart Albums, scrolling, everything is much faster than it was. My guess is that this rebuild redoes all of the files that reference the structure of the projects and their contents. This makes the accesses sequential and uses files that have been defragmented, so speeding what I see.
I'm waiting a while on installing 10.4.7, but have heard that it improves Aperture as well.
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