Joseph- Thanks. I’ll give it a try. I do the beach ball when I first select anything-adjustment, preset, import, etc.

Florian

Thanks! I noticed a big difference!

Joseph, thanks for this tip.

A small word of warning, if one of the presets is ‘empty’, such as during experimenting, I might have deleted the actions of the preset but somehow left the preset in the list, then it is not possible to export it. (makes sense)
But if you highlight it among the others, and export, nothing happens at all.
To my horror, I highlighted all, exported, then deleted, then tried to find the file to import. Nothing. Gone. End of story.

After a bit of heartburn, good old Time Machine rises to the occassion.
The Presets are stored in
Library>Application Support>Aperture>Adjustment Chain Presets.plist
So I restored that from an hour or so before and they are back. Cool.

Then I deleted the several that were empty and a few others that I no longer need, and retried exporting. Success.

But doing the recover from TM seems to have had the same effect. I don’t have the beachball.
So, I suppose what is happening is that the Preset file is being restored or reimported in a non-fraged way and reads quicker?

It also taught me to export each of the important presets and back them up somewhere.

Thanks again for a (eventually for me <gg>) really useful idea.

DJ

Hey how cool. Just did the above and it works great. Thanks

G

Hi Joseph,

When you say a preset is “empty”, do you mean that you’ve created a preset but removed all of its components, or do you mean that you have an empty preset group? See [screenshot].

Yes, the preset was empty, due to much playing about with presets, trying to find the perfect one for every use. <ggg> I did not have an empty group. (although thinking about it, should try and see just for sake of completeness ah?)

I suppose I had made the preset, then altered it, and then gone back and deleted the various settings, by hitting the delete key, I suspect.
So the D200 In the Snow preset, was a name only and the changes for each component had been deleted.
Leaving D200 In the Snow, still in the list, but not actually doing anything… And as I don’t have any current snow/D200, I didn’t take any more notice.
I found in the end, that I had 3 empty presets without components.
Story being, it is good idea to delete unused presets or at least save them away and then delete them.
All is running fine at the moment.

DJ

Yes, this can be dangerous, if people don´t check that the export actually works before deleting their presets, there is a risk of loosing their presets.
I too can´t export more than 1 preset pack at a time.
What i cant replicate is the above post regarding empty presets, just comment that whenever i try exporting more than one preset pack, the export dont work.

I bought your preset yesterday and was looking forward to use it. Now, I’m having a problem I tried to import all those presets to aperture and I noticed that the preset set #5 doesn’t work at all, it doesn’t import. This is one of my problems.

My second problem is that I can’t export any of my bought presets that I already managed to import into aperture. I already tried if I can export default presets and this works. I also checked if all of the presets contain at least one component, and they did.

Unfortunately, I have to export and import all my presets again, because the problem in the article is pretty strong noticeable on my computer; actually aperture refuses to start when I try open it with only three of the imported presets installed. It will open until I see the spinning beach ball and it will stay that way. It also will overtake all of my RAM, so that I can’t do anything else.

I would like to have a solution for my problem. I just don’t know what to do.

Julian

PS: I still have all my presets saved in form of the six files I downloaded when I bought the presets.

Joseph,

First of all I appreciate your fast response and thank you for your help.

I deleted my presets, that I bought, from aperture and reinstalled them. I started with the first pack. Imported it like it is described in the instructions, and quite aperture just too see if there is a difference in the starting time of aperture when I launch the program. There was no significant difference. Then I imported/installed the second pack and quite it again. I noticed the start slowing down a little. I installed the third pack and quite it again. When I stared it again I noticed the spinning beach ball that replaced my mouse. Aperture took about 20 sec. to start. I was still okay with that, however, I was worried. I imported the next preset pack, preset pack #4 and quite it afterwards. The next start took about 5 minutes and took all the RAM available. It slowed down my whole computer.

I tried the same thing last night after i bought the presets and ended up with the same results.

I just would’t like to wait 5 min. for lightroom to start.

Julian

PS: What you didn’t understand in my previous post was: I was trying to solve my problem by doing what the tutorial above told me to do, because I also experienced some issues with the spinning beach ball when I hit the OK button in the “Adjustment Preset” window.
I just had problems exporting the presets (like I I’m supposed to do according to the tutorial above).

I am working with Aperture 3.3.

Thank you a lot!

One thing you might want to know is that the ~/Library/Application Support/Aperture/Adjustment Chain Presets.plist file is about 646 MB big and as soon as I rename or delete this file (so that aperture can’t find it) aperture does a great job starting. Everything works much better after that, with one major disadvantage all my presets are gone.

Julian

Joseph,

I thank you a lot for you work and time you dedicated to that. A refund is really not necessary. I love your presets and I think you should be rewarded for that, and since Apple is going to take care of my problem I can’t blame you for this mistake.

However, is there a way I can download the preset pack #5 as soon as it is fixed? Could you email a link to me? Do you need any purchase information from me to do that?

Thanks

Julian