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Run Aperture on a 12" PowerBook
Authored by: sVk on Jan 03, '06 12:15:48AM

Disclaimer: The following might cause your application and data to be corrupted so back it all up. Plus it probably violates Apple's license, so be warned. I take no responsibility for any of your actions based on the following hints.

Graphics card issue: Be sure to replace both of the strings NVIDIA

GeForce FX 5200 Ultra OpenGL Engine
and
NVIDIA NV34MAP OpenGL Engine
(completely) with
1
.
(Assuming Aperture is already installed.) To do this launch the terminal application (found in
/Applications/Utilities
). Then use your favourite text editor (i.e. vi or emacs) to edit the executable Aperture file:
e.g.
cd /Applications//Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/

vi Aperture

or
emacs Aperture
, then make the required edits, save and exit. Alternatively if you are a hardened gui person you can navigate to the same folder in the Finder by selecting
Go to Folder...
from Finder's Go menu. Type in
/Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/
, click
Go
.
Ctrl + Click
on the Aperture executable file, choose
Open With -> Other...
and choose a text editor.

Memory issue: Using one of the ways described above, edit the file

Info.plist
in the folder
/Applications/Aperture.app/Contents
. On the 7th line down you should see the following
<key>AELMinimumRAMSize</key>
, on the next line should be
<string>1000</string>
. To make the minimum memory requirement less stringent change this number to whatever you would like it to be.

Note: Allowing the program to run with less than recommended memory or a less powerful graphics card will decrease the performance and responsiveness of the application greatly. Aperture is designed to be a high performance professional application and so is resource hungry, be warned.



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Run Aperture on a 12&quot; PowerBook
Authored by: jdhorner on Jan 17, '06 06:09:27PM

to clear up some confusion...

you don't replace them with a single "1"... EVERY CHARACTER becomes a "1"

so

if the string were "foo bar" it gets replaced with "1111111" (note the 1 for the space, and no quotes)



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Run Aperture on a 12&quot; PowerBook
Authored by: Ultraformat on Apr 14, '06 03:28:28PM

Specifically, there are 72 characters that get replaced with 72 1's.



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