Aperture 2.1 hangs on import...

Everything worked fine before updating from 2.0 to 2.1 but now i cannot import anything to aperture. When i click on IMPORT the application hangs. Restarting did not help
Any ideas?
Thank you very much.

...meanwhile i found out is has someting to do with my user-account as with a new one everything works fine.
does anyone know or have an idea how to check what makes the conflict in my profile so i dont have to create a new one and doing all new settings?
Thank you very much in advance!

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. I copied all the files first to the desktop and then imported into aperture, still the same hang at "saving preview...".
The hang at "Saving Preview" typically occurs if one image is being processed, that has a corruption and cannot be processed.
Aperture is processing the previews in the background. That may take a long time. Before you force quit Aperture and suspect a hang, look at the filename in the Activity viewer. If it is hanging at the same filename without getting the preview created, then export the original as original, not the edited version delete that file from Aperture. Check that file in another program and make sure you do not import that particular file again.
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You cannot be sure, until the processing of all the previews has finished.
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