leffe Posted March 16, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted March 16, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) After I have updated my MacOSX to version 10.4.9 the M8 Aperture importer would not work anymore and Aperture claims that the imported files (which have worked so far) are a non supported image format. Any ideas? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hans Roggen Posted March 16, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted March 16, 2007 Hi Patrick, Â You have to re-edit the raw.plist file again, like you did before. After that it should work fine again. The updated replaced your previously edited file with a new one. Â Hans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joi Posted March 23, 2007 Share #3 Â Posted March 23, 2007 I re-edited and it is crashing Aperture and iView. I talked to someone at Apple and he thought this was the reason... Â Good news is the Apple guys said they are working on M8 RAW support and it will be here real soon now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Roggen Posted March 23, 2007 Share #4 Â Posted March 23, 2007 Hi Joichi, Â I already answered you in another thread, but on my G5 no problems with Aperture since the hack. I did find that after updating to 10.4.9 the finder doesn't show DNG previews anymore. Â Hans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoin Posted March 23, 2007 Share #5 Â Posted March 23, 2007 If you have edited the raw.plist and Aperture is crashing, you've made an error in the string, delete the string you have created save the raw.plist and re-start Aperture to check you have removed the problem. If everything works in aperture, i.e it starts without crashing but the DNG is still not supported than that's OK. If Aperture still crashes you may have corrupted the raw.plist and you'll need to restore the original or re-download the update. Â Once everything is working go back in and duplicate the Nikon-D200 entry. Highlight the newly created Nikon-D200 2 and edit it to read Leica Camera AG-M8 Digital Camera save the raw.plist and re-start aperture, everything should now be working. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucklik Posted March 23, 2007 Share #6 Â Posted March 23, 2007 I Good news is the Apple guys said they are working on M8 RAW support and it will be here real soon now. I hope they are also working on V-Lux1 Raw files Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joi Posted March 25, 2007 Share #7  Posted March 25, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) If you have edited the raw.plist and Aperture is crashing, you've made an error in the string, delete the string you have created save the raw.plist and re-start Aperture to check you have removed the problem. If everything works in aperture, i.e it starts without crashing but the DNG is still not supported than that's OK. If Aperture still crashes you may have corrupted the raw.plist and you'll need to restore the original or re-download the update.  Once everything is working go back in and duplicate the Nikon-D200 entry. Highlight the newly created Nikon-D200 2 and edit it to read Leica Camera AG-M8 Digital Camera save the raw.plist and re-start aperture, everything should now be working. Thanks Eoin, I'll try it again. One thing that I noticed since the update was that I couldn't use the checkbox in the Get Info on the Raw.plist file to change the permissions to edit the file. I had to do a sudo chown <myusername> raw.plist to let me edit it and then sudo chown root raw.plist again to move it back to system ownership. What is the permissions for raw.plist for you?  Mine is:  -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 142174 Mar 25 04:19 Raw.plist  I wonder if this is wrong? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joi Posted March 25, 2007 Share #8 Â Posted March 25, 2007 I did this again and Aperture crashes less and gives an crash dialog when it crashes now. (It didn't do that before.) I will play with it some more and see if I can figure out why it is crashing still. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoin Posted March 25, 2007 Share #9 Â Posted March 25, 2007 Hi Joichi, Â You should have been able to change permissions on the raw.plist file providing you have admin rights. that does not sound right. Â You also say it's crashing less, do you mean it's still crashing without the M8 entry in the raw.plist or you have copied back the original raw.plist and aperture is still crashing?. Â Just a few things for you to do or try, repair permissions when booting from the install CD/DVD. Â Start Aperture by holding down the Command+Option (apple&alt) keys and select rebuild the database. Â Let me know what the outcome is, there are a lot of complaints over on the Apple discussion forums regarding many problems with 10.4.9 update, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joi Posted March 25, 2007 Share #10  Posted March 25, 2007 Hi Joichi, You should have been able to change permissions on the raw.plist file providing you have admin rights. that does not sound right.  You also say it's crashing less, do you mean it's still crashing without the M8 entry in the raw.plist or you have copied back the original raw.plist and aperture is still crashing?. Do you mean changing in the Command-I get info window or using sudo chmod? For some reason, I couldn't change it in the get info window. I'll try to try this again. Before, it would crash suddenly and not give any error. Now when it crashes, it pops the dialog box to send the error to Apple, restart application, etc. It seems random still, and is less frequent.  I copied the old raw.plist back and did the hack to recreate the M8 entry again.  It does appear to start crashing when I import my images. Do you know if corrupt images or images that have not been "converted" can cause Aperture to become unstable? I've also found that iView is also crashing with the same frequency.  Interestingly, Adobe Bridge doesn't crash at all. This is what makes me think it's my raw.plist. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joi Posted March 25, 2007 Share #11 Â Posted March 25, 2007 Start Aperture by holding down the Command+Option (apple&alt) keys and select rebuild the database. I tried deleting the application support file and the library and ran fix disk permissions. I then re-imported all of the images. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoin Posted March 25, 2007 Share #12 Â Posted March 25, 2007 joichi, Â You should have been able to change permission and ownership of the raw.plist by right clicking or ctrl clicking the file and get info. You say you couldn't use the drop down lists to change the permissions, did you click on the details triangle and click the lock beside the owner to change ownership to your user name?. After you change ownership change the owner access to Read & Write and then go back up to "you can" and change that to read and write. I know nothing about command line unix commands, sorry. Â I also asked you to restore your original raw.plist and make sure Aperture is working before re-editing the file, did you do this?, or just restore and re-edit without checking if Aperture was functioning correctly?. You may however have a very valid point regarding a corrupt file crashing Aperture, I have had this before on other files. Anyhow I'd suggest you get back to basics and make sure you have restored your pristine raw.plist and deleted your M8 images out of aperture. make sure it's working without any faults or crashes. Then edit the raw.plist and bring in a FEW images and check it again for stability. If everything seems to be working think about importing batches of images into say different projects to see if a specific batch of images is giving the problem then perhaps you can narrow down the problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joi Posted March 25, 2007 Share #13 Â Posted March 25, 2007 Good advice. I'm in a series of meetings right now, but will try to make some time to do this over the next few days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbican Posted March 25, 2007 Share #14 Â Posted March 25, 2007 joichi, You should have been able to change permission and ownership of the raw.plist by right clicking or ctrl clicking the file and get info. You say you couldn't use the drop down lists to change the permissions, did you click on the details triangle and click the lock beside the owner to change ownership to your user name?. After you change ownership change the owner access to Read & Write and then go back up to "you can" and change that to read and write. Â I couldn't do this either when I attempted to follow the installation instructions strictly. I am usually logged in under a non-administrative account. Attempting to perform administrative actions under a non-administrative account usually pops up the dialog to supply administrator credentials. Not in this case, however. I had to log in under an administrator account. No big deal, but a slight diversion from the walkthrough of how to do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoin Posted March 25, 2007 Share #15 Â Posted March 25, 2007 I think it's stated in "You may have to unlock this file to allow you to save it depending on your security setup." in the instructions. Perhaps not clear enough and without the methodology. But some user knowledge is assumed rightly or wrongly, sorry! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbican Posted March 25, 2007 Share #16 Â Posted March 25, 2007 Yes, but the next sentence is "To unlock right click and select get info, go to ownership and permissions and change from read only to read and write." which didn't work for me. Ah well, all OK now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joi Posted March 26, 2007 Share #17 Â Posted March 26, 2007 My problem seems slightly more fundamental. I erased the Application Support file, the library, reverted to the old Raw.plist and tried to import an iPhoto library and it crashes. :-\ Â I'll keep trying to debug it, but I may resort to a fresh OS install... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoin Posted March 26, 2007 Share #18 Â Posted March 26, 2007 Joichi, Â It could be your backup raw.plist file causing the problem, is this backup file the raw.plist from 10.4.8 or post install of 10.4.9 before any modification?. You talk about bringing in a iPhoto album, what images are in that album, what I mean by that are they raws, DNG's and from what camera?. Have any of these images in the iPhoto album been run through the Adobe DNG converter and if so what version of the DNG converter and settings used. Â A full OS reinstall seems drastic at this point in time, but may however reduce the time required to de-bug the issue, I'd suggest only updating as far as 10.4.8 to maintain folder previews which got broken in 10.4.9. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joi Posted March 26, 2007 Share #19  Posted March 26, 2007 Joichi, It could be your backup raw.plist file causing the problem, is this backup file the raw.plist from 10.4.8 or post install of 10.4.9 before any modification?.  Ahh, very good point. I don't remember now, but it is possible that my raw.plist backup is pre-update, although you'd think I wouldn't be so stupid. Any chance someone could send me a new raw.plist or tell me where I can get one?  The iPhoto library is just an old jpeg library... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoin Posted March 26, 2007 Share #20 Â Posted March 26, 2007 sent you mine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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