Aperture 3 running very slowly?! - A fix that worked for me that will hopefully work for you...

 
 

A little trick I picked up from some pro's who heavily use audio applications like Soundtrack Pro which also seems to have had the side effect of making my machine about 5 times faster and seemed to sort out my Aperture 3 uber slowness that was quite frankly depressing me.

So, here goes...

Start a reboot your machine and, when the screen goes black, press and keep hold of the shift key until you see the light blue screen appears after the grey screen with the Apple logo. It will take about 4-5 minutes and you will see a progress bar for most of it, so make sure you have the time to be stuck to your keyboard.

It will then boot in to Safe Mode. When this has completed, restart the machine without holding down any keys. 

Once you are back up and running, your machine is now completely re-indexed and should run significantly faster. And Aperture 3 will hopefully run a **** of a lot faster.

Worked for me, so hopefully will for you too. 

Apparently heavy video and audio editing users do this once a week as a routine to keep their machines in tip top shape. So given how much Aperture 3 thrashes the hard drive and processor, I should think it is safe to say we, as Aperture 3 users, are hammering our machines to a degree where we should probably be doing the same. 

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