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squeezing another trial out of aperture

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If you want to enter a different serial number for Aperture follow these steps.

Delete your ProAppsSystemID file

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1) Delete your copy of the Aperture in your Applications folder manually
2) Make sure you have your serial number in hand for reference to re-serailize
3) Delete your ProAppsSystemID file in Library/Applications Support/ProApps folder
4) If you don’t care about preferences and metadata presets you can delete those as well for a clean install. It should, however, be ok to leave them from the previous version you were running.
5) Re-launch Aperture. Once you’ve done that, you should see you are running Aperture 3.0.1 and that it is not referenced as a trial in the Aperture menu.

this is great if you want to extend your trial another 30 days

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Posted on April 3, 2010 and filed under aperture, aperture3, appletips,

finally done with iphoto 2009 after hand exporting the photos I wanted to keep

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Yes, it's a shock to me too but Apple actually makes buggy software sometimes. iphoto 2009 was great until I started to delete photos.

I've been using iphoto 2009 to manage all of my photos for the past year. I amassed a staggering 6500 photos so I figured some triaging in order. So a few weeks ago, I started deleting photos and moving others to archive folders. To my dismay, iphoto would not close so I had to force quit and then when I restarted the application, the photos were back in my albums. Long story short, I ended up having to hand export each photo I wanted to save, which ended up by 896 in all and then right clicking and deleting the actual library itself which was 90 gigabytes.

From scouring the apple forums I figured out that a few of my photos must have been corrupted either from improper shut-down or too many deleted photos in the queue.

UPDATE: Here is the apple forum thread discussing this issue. It is happening to a lot of others as well, so I know I am not crazy.

Either way I moved on to Picasa 3 and Lightroom 3 beta and I haven't looked back. Hopefully the same thing doesn't happen again.

In google we trust.

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Posted on January 25, 2010 and filed under #iphoto09, appletips, photo management,
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