Mac – RAW images not supported in Aperture after Time Machine restore

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After restoring from a Time Machine Backup all of the RAW images in my aperture library show as "Not supported", even though they did work on my old laptop (where the backup was made).

Here is what I tried:

  • Downloading and manually installing the latest Camera RAW
  • Repairing permissions for my Aperture Library
  • Repairing the Aperture Library itself
  • Rebuilding the library itself

And it still says "File type not supported" The weird thing is after I rebuild or repair the database, the thumbnail will work, But expanding will then break it and all of the thumbnails will go back to the exclamation mark.

I have multiple backups, one time machine and one put on a windows server.

My camera is supported by Digital Camera RAW – Sony Alpha SLT-A57

Best Answer

It appears that this problem isn't with Aperture at all as the image files themselves are corrupt. This isn't the solution to the problem, because this is just a side-effect of the main problem.