(AKA Aperture on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard crashes upon importing certain images) I spent the last two days collecting, anonymizing, and organizing over 1,200 images submitted by various folks to a photography contest that I run. Like last year, my plan was to use Aperture to actually look at and shuffle around the images, but when I attempted to import them by reference, Aperture crashed. When I re-launched Aperture, only a certain number of images had been imported, and successive imports of the remaining images continued to cause Aperture to crash.
I finally isolated some of the images that Aperture refused to import without crashing, and after saving and re-saving them in various combinations, I realized that it was metadata that was causing the crash.
Here’s what I discovered after playing around with some of the files:
- crashing images were taken with cameras from multiple vendors
- files that crashed Aperture had metadata from Adobe Photoshop
- stripping IPTC and EXIF using ImageMagick’s mogrify command* had no effect on the file’s ability to crash Aperture
- stripping all XMP profiles using ImageMagick’s mogrify command** fixed the import problem
- re-saving the original file in Photo Mechanic fixed the import problem
- re-saving the original file in Photoshop did not fix the problem
- command: “mogrify +profile iptc image.jpg” and “mogrify +profile exif image.jpg”
** command: “mogrify +profile xmp image.jpg”
Interesting: removing all XMP profiles from the file fixed the import crash. But re-saving it in Photo Mechanic also fixed the problem. Photo Mechanic preserves some XMP data, but clearly removes the offending bits.
I compared the metadata in the Photoshop-saved file vs. the Photo Mechanic-saved file, and found this:
The only three profiles that Photo Mechanic removed were:
- XMP Media Management Properties
- http://ns.adobe.com/camera-raw-saved-settings/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/lightroom/1.0/
So one by one, I created files that only contained the metadata profiles for each of the potentially offensive bits above. The culprit? camera-raw-saved-settings/1.0/!
Creating a 1×1-pixel image in Photoshop and replacing the metadata with an XMP file containing the profile data for http://ns.adobe.com/camera-raw-saved-settings/1.0/ results in an image that crashes Aperture upon import. It’s important to note that the problematic metadata fragment came from one of the bad files itself — I saved the metadata and deleted everything out of the XMP file except for the camera-raw part. I couldn’t create problematic metadata myself using any of the software I have, including my install of Photoshop / Camera Raw.
You can download all of the files (23KB) to test this out for yourself. The archive consists of the following files:
- crashaperture-cameraraw-only.jpg – an image file that will crash Aperture upon import. It’s just a 1×1-pixel image that contains the offending metadata frament.
- crashaperture-cameraraw-only.xmp – the offending metadata fragment
- original images/ – dummy images containing the full metadata of the original crashing images
Also, here’s the Apple crash report.
I’m going to submit this to Aperture support. I just thought I’d get the information out there for teh Google to index.
UPDATE: Here’s a video showing how to create a crashing image using the XMP file in the downloadable archive:
I didn’t realize my voice had such a strong nasal component! I blame the microphone. :)
Below, I’ve inlined the offending metadata. When I append this to any image by using Photoshop’s File Info dialog box, the resulting image crashes Aperture upon import.
<![CDATA[<?xpacket begin="" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="Adobe XMP Core 4.1-c036 46.276720, Mon Feb 19 2007 22:13:43 ">
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<rdf:Description rdf:about=""
xmlns:crss="http://ns.adobe.com/camera-raw-saved-settings/1.0/"
xmlns:crs="http://ns.adobe.com/camera-raw-settings/1.0/">
<crss:SavedSettings>
<rdf:Bag>
<rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource">
<crss:Name>Import</crss:Name>
<crss:Type>Snapshot</crss:Type>
<crss:Parameters rdf:parseType="Resource">
<crs:WhiteBalance>As Shot</crs:WhiteBalance>
<crs:IncrementalTemperature>0</crs:IncrementalTemperature>
<crs:IncrementalTint>0</crs:IncrementalTint>
<crs:Exposure>0.00</crs:Exposure>
<crs:Shadows>0</crs:Shadows>
<crs:Brightness>0</crs:Brightness>
<crs:Contrast>0</crs:Contrast>
<crs:Saturation>0</crs:Saturation>
<crs:Sharpness>0</crs:Sharpness>
<crs:LuminanceSmoothing>0</crs:LuminanceSmoothing>
<crs:ColorNoiseReduction>0</crs:ColorNoiseReduction>
<crs:ChromaticAberrationR>0</crs:ChromaticAberrationR>
<crs:ChromaticAberrationB>0</crs:ChromaticAberrationB>
<crs:VignetteAmount>0</crs:VignetteAmount>
<crs:ShadowTint>0</crs:ShadowTint>
<crs:RedHue>0</crs:RedHue>
<crs:RedSaturation>0</crs:RedSaturation>
<crs:GreenHue>0</crs:GreenHue>
<crs:GreenSaturation>0</crs:GreenSaturation>
<crs:BlueHue>0</crs:BlueHue>
<crs:BlueSaturation>0</crs:BlueSaturation>
<crs:FillLight>0</crs:FillLight>
<crs:Vibrance>0</crs:Vibrance>
<crs:HighlightRecovery>0</crs:HighlightRecovery>
<crs:Clarity>0</crs:Clarity>
<crs:Defringe>0</crs:Defringe>
<crs:HueAdjustmentRed>0</crs:HueAdjustmentRed>
<crs:HueAdjustmentOrange>0</crs:HueAdjustmentOrange>
<crs:HueAdjustmentYellow>0</crs:HueAdjustmentYellow>
<crs:HueAdjustmentGreen>0</crs:HueAdjustmentGreen>
<crs:HueAdjustmentAqua>0</crs:HueAdjustmentAqua>
<crs:HueAdjustmentBlue>0</crs:HueAdjustmentBlue>
<crs:HueAdjustmentPurple>0</crs:HueAdjustmentPurple>
<crs:HueAdjustmentMagenta>0</crs:HueAdjustmentMagenta>
<crs:SaturationAdjustmentRed>0</crs:SaturationAdjustmentRed>
<crs:SaturationAdjustmentOrange>0</crs:SaturationAdjustmentOrange>
<crs:SaturationAdjustmentYellow>0</crs:SaturationAdjustmentYellow>
<crs:SaturationAdjustmentGreen>0</crs:SaturationAdjustmentGreen>
<crs:SaturationAdjustmentAqua>0</crs:SaturationAdjustmentAqua>
<crs:SaturationAdjustmentBlue>0</crs:SaturationAdjustmentBlue>
<crs:SaturationAdjustmentPurple>0</crs:SaturationAdjustmentPurple>
<crs:SaturationAdjustmentMagenta>0</crs:SaturationAdjustmentMagenta>
<crs:LuminanceAdjustmentRed>0</crs:LuminanceAdjustmentRed>
<crs:LuminanceAdjustmentOrange>0</crs:LuminanceAdjustmentOrange>
<crs:LuminanceAdjustmentYellow>0</crs:LuminanceAdjustmentYellow>
<crs:LuminanceAdjustmentGreen>0</crs:LuminanceAdjustmentGreen>
<crs:LuminanceAdjustmentAqua>0</crs:LuminanceAdjustmentAqua>
<crs:LuminanceAdjustmentBlue>0</crs:LuminanceAdjustmentBlue>
<crs:LuminanceAdjustmentPurple>0</crs:LuminanceAdjustmentPurple>
<crs:LuminanceAdjustmentMagenta>0</crs:LuminanceAdjustmentMagenta>
<crs:SplitToningShadowHue>0</crs:SplitToningShadowHue>
<crs:SplitToningShadowSaturation>0</crs:SplitToningShadowSaturation>
<crs:SplitToningHighlightHue>0</crs:SplitToningHighlightHue>
<crs:SplitToningHighlightSaturation>0</crs:SplitToningHighlightSaturation>
<crs:SplitToningBalance>0</crs:SplitToningBalance>
<crs:ParametricShadows>0</crs:ParametricShadows>
<crs:ParametricDarks>0</crs:ParametricDarks>
<crs:ParametricLights>0</crs:ParametricLights>
<crs:ParametricHighlights>0</crs:ParametricHighlights>
<crs:ParametricShadowSplit>25</crs:ParametricShadowSplit>
<crs:ParametricMidtoneSplit>50</crs:ParametricMidtoneSplit>
<crs:ParametricHighlightSplit>75</crs:ParametricHighlightSplit>
<crs:SharpenRadius>+1.0</crs:SharpenRadius>
<crs:SharpenDetail>25</crs:SharpenDetail>
<crs:SharpenEdgeMasking>0</crs:SharpenEdgeMasking>
<crs:ConvertToGrayscale>False</crs:ConvertToGrayscale>
<crs:ToneCurveName>Linear</crs:ToneCurveName>
<crs:CameraProfile>Embedded</crs:CameraProfile>
<crs:ToneCurve>
<rdf:Seq>
<rdf:li>0, 0</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>255, 255</rdf:li>
</rdf:Seq>
</crs:ToneCurve>
</crss:Parameters>
</rdf:li>
</rdf:Bag>
</crss:SavedSettings>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
</x:xmpmeta>
<?xpacket end="w"?>]]>
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