What a hero is Tyshawn Cormier. Not only did he fathom a truly great hack, to help us hop over an Apple hurdle, but now he’s turned his complex trick into a free app!!!
Question … if Tyshawn Cormier could do it … why couldn’t Apple and does this mean that, as suspected, the post Jobs Apple, is not at all the same place?
I know he keeps saying “you can check the source code” but all those warnings make me a tad nervous. I’ll get over it.
Well … call me crazy, but 10.15.1 came out today, so I updated my main Mac and ran Retroactive 1.0.
I had to Open it via contextual menu 3 times, as Catalina seems to be even more cautious about non-app-store installs … but after that, it took about a minute to run and then, as old Jobs used to say ‘Boom!’ There was Aperture sitting open on my Mac. I have gone through a few libraries and done some basic checking, but it all seems fine. The only thing was that I lost my prefs … but I have them on another Mac!
On Oct 30, 2019, at 3:41 PM, grantsymon email@hidden wrote:
On 30 Oct 2019, 11:53 am, Joe Muscara wrote:
I know he keeps saying “you can check the source code” but all those warnings make me a tad nervous. I’ll get over it.
Well … call me crazy, but 10.15.1 came out today, so I updated my main Mac and ran Retroactive 1.0.
I had to Open it via contextual menu 3 times, as Catalina seems to be even more cautious about non-app-store installs … but after that, it took about a minute to run and then, as old Jobs used to say ‘Boom!’ There was Aperture sitting open on my Mac. I have gone through a few libraries and done some basic checking, but it all seems fine. The only thing was that I lost my prefs … but I have them on another Mac!
Today I’ve been poking around a bit more and have come across a couple of little hiccups.
• Full-Screen mode ‘unexpectedly quits’ Aperture, if you use the F key to return to normal view … when using dual-monitor setup. Using the ESC key seems to avoid the problem, but not always. I’m guessing it has to do with Spaces, which Aperture seems to want to use for Full-Screen. I’m not having the problem when there is no second monitor attached.
More importantly, but with an easy workaround:
• Add Adjustments drop-down menu (in the Inspector) is empty unless Aperture is launched via Retroactive.
Workaround:
Add ALL or preferred Adjustments (and/or Quick Brushes) to an Effect, or to several Effects, via the Effects drop-down, which still shows up. From there you can simply choose an ‘Effect’ when you want to edit an image and the associated Adjustments will be added to any Adjustments have already been applied to the image. You could of course, just re-create the Add Adjustment drop-down menu entirely in the Effects drop-down menu.
Alternatively … launch Aperture via Retroactive each time, but, that said, I’m getting Aperture wanting to Repair Libraries after launch from Retroactive, although I haven’t had time to really scrutinise this.
Other than that, I have had the long standing issue (for me) of Aperture not making Previews for certain raw image types (RAF and ORF and even struggling with NEF files). I’ve found with this hacked version, that I can choose to Reprocess Originals and it doesn’t help … but if I do it a second time, it works! So I’ve actually improved something with this hack.
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Amazing. I’ve put Catalina on my laptop, but I’m holding off on my Mac Pro for this very reason. I need to evaluate a real replacement, maybe Capture One, maybe the Raw Power app/extension to Photos (written by one of the authors of Aperture), and move along. I’m not sure that swimming upstream like this is more than a curiosity or last-ditch effort. It’s not likely to be sustainable, not through any malice on Apple’s part, just inattention and other priorities.
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On Oct 31, 2019, at 12:08 PM, grantsymon email@hidden wrote:
A little update on Retroactive for Aperture:
Today I’ve been poking around a bit more and have come across a couple of little hiccups.
• Full-Screen mode ‘unexpectedly quits’ Aperture, if you use the F key to return to normal view … when using dual-monitor setup. Using the ESC key seems to avoid the problem, but not always. I’m guessing it has to do with Spaces, which Aperture seems to want to use for Full-Screen. I’m not having the problem when there is no second monitor attached.
More importantly, but with an easy workaround:
• Add Adjustments drop-down menu (in the Inspector) is empty unless Aperture is launched via Retroactive.
Workaround:
Add ALL or preferred Adjustments (and/or Quick Brushes) to an Effect, or to several Effects, via the Effects drop-down, which still shows up. From there you can simply choose an ‘Effect’ when you want to edit an image and the associated Adjustments will be added to any Adjustments have already been applied to the image. You could of course, just re-create the Add Adjustment drop-down menu entirely in the Effects drop-down menu.
Alternatively … launch Aperture via Retroactive each time, but, that said, I’m getting Aperture wanting to Repair Libraries after launch from Retroactive, although I haven’t had time to really scrutinise this.
Other than that, I have had the long standing issue (for me) of Aperture not making Previews for certain raw image types (RAF and ORF and even struggling with NEF files). I’ve found with this hacked version, that I can choose to Reprocess Originals and it doesn’t help … but if I do it a second time, it works! So I’ve actually improved something with this hack.
