It’s appalling, but you won’t find it on Apple’s Website, now that Aperture 3 is available. You’ll need a copy of the full Aperture 2.1.4, or at least of the trial version, but it has to be the full package, not just the update. But although Aperture 2 can regularly be found in the /Applications folder, the updater doesn’t update. So you download the Aperture 2.1.4 Update, because Aperture 2.1.4 is compatible with Snow Leopard. The problem is that you can reinstall your copy of Aperture 2.0, but that won’t even open under Snow Leopard. Now you’re using Snow Leopard and, for whatever reason, you need to reinstall Aperture 2 from scratch. Since it was introduced in February 2008, Mac OS X Snow Leopard still didn’t exist at the time, so obviously you used Aperture 2 under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. (This issue was also discussed in the Apple Discussions Forum.) The ProblemĬonsider the following scenario: you have purchased a regular copy of Aperture 2. I was able to help that person, and I thought that perhaps it was worth talking about the issue here, and help more people. Someone on a mailing list I follow has raised the following issue, which I was unaware of.
