Yes, Aperture has bugs.
I haven’t had the opportunity to play around with it a lot yet, but already have a show stopper.
Aperture has a function that exports the master raw files from a library.
This is good.
I figured I could use it to replicate my current digital photo workflow while getting used to Aperture. So, I imported a photoshoot into Aperture. Then I rotated/white balanced/etc. the photos. As a first test I thought I would check to make sure the “masters” that Aperture exported were in fact the same as the files I had imported.
Imagine my surprise when Aperture exported one more photo then I had imported.
I thought WOW! This might be a break through in photography. You put 10 pictures in and get 11 out. Here’s hoping the extra photo is a good shot.
Alas, it was merely a duplicated copy of one of the other photos. Furthermore, when I did a diff on the exported raw files versus the imported raw files, some of them didn’t match. On further inspection it turned out they weren’t the same photo.
I had selected for Aperture to use the filename from the master files when exporting.
So instead of exporting all of the files using, well, you know, the original filename, like you would expect, for a random subset of the photos it had exported DSC_4157.nef as DSC_4151.nef and DSC_4151.nef as a different number, etc.
So what do we have? A program that I can’t even get my original raw files out of. Do you think I’m going to trust that? Uhh… NO
And in case you were wondering, this was with 1.01.
Another kinda amusing bug. I was starting up Aperture and while it was still starting I switched over to Safari to write this post. When Aperture finished loading, for some reason it forgot to draw the tools or the photo tray.
I want to like Aperture. I really do.
I wonder if there is a place to log bugs against it.