Is this why Aperture is so unresponsive? I keep all my camera raw files in separate directories where I manually manage backups. I never have an image in fewer than two places, and periodically I sync to a couple other drives and clear things off of memory cards. I keep everything in the same folder hierarchy, though, so I don’t have phantom backups lying around somewhere, and I can always find images no matter where I am. This also allows me to roll masters off the hard drive in my MBP without really losing much in the way of convenience, because when I have my portable drive or I’m on the network at home I can relocate masters somewhat on the fly.
But! Whenever I try to import something now, I have to wait on the order of 5-10 minutes before the UI lets me start clicking around to find what I want to import. Two of those paths there are PhotoCDs, which were connected exactly once each. I think Aperture is trying to look for them even though they’re not mounted at all. I’ve also found a bug that may or may not be related, as if I let Aperture sit idle for too long it will lose its connection to all referenced masters … even the ones on my internal hard drive.
I’ve looked before, but yesterday I finally did the right kind of snooping and found this, then deleted the preference and relaunched Aperture. And zing! The UI doesn’t freeze up when I import new photos. We’ll see how long it lasts.
Anybody else had this problem with Aperture? Is it fixed in Aperture 3?
