Thanks to the Tyshawn's Retroactive app, it is still possible to run Apple's Aperture app on the latest macOS versions. At the moment, I'm running Aperture on macOS Big Sur 11.6 with the help of Retroactive 1.9. It even comes with extensive deep dive article explaining how it came together. Neat!
While Retroactive has a couple of issues - primarily I see that thumbnails don't refresh as quickly and reliably as they are supposed to - but it is still pretty much usable. One issue I have noticed which wasn't mentioned is it seems that the Aperture's login item responsible for updating iCloud's photo stream has stopped working, and macOS repeatedly tries to re-open it every 10 seconds... That doesn't sound optimal.
Oct 9 00:01:16 iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.photostream-agent[99515]): LaunchServices returned a bundle URL that does not match with the LoginItem's known association.
Oct 9 00:01:16 iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.photostream-agent[99515]): Service exited with abnormal code: 78
Oct 9 00:01:16 iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.photostream-agent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Since I am not using iCloud with Aperture, my solution was simply to disable it.
launchctl disable com.apple.photostream-agent
launchctl remove com.apple.photostream-agent
This does not stop macOS from loading it next time you reboot your mac. So to prevent it from loading next time, I've also hidden it from the OS.
cd /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems
sudo mv PhotoStreamAgent.app PhotoStreamAgent.app.disabled
sudo chmod 700 PhotoStreamAgent.app.disabled
That was it.
Posted by Vadim at October 16, 2021 2:19 PM | TrackBack