Aperture 2 somehow corrupting my RAWs?

I searched the archive but only found references to Aperture crashing on import or to Aperture producing smaller artifacts. If this came up before I didn't find it and would appreciate a small bump in the right direction but for now I believe this is new:
I use Aperture 2.1.3 3G13 on a black MacBook. As camera I use a Canon EOS 450D. I am not a professional user but was intrigued enough by Apertures wonderful workflow system, so that I bought Aperture 2 after test-driving Aperture 1 und 2 before.
Aperture renders my RAWs files as follows: http://pix.darph.net/raw/aperture.jpg
I first assumed a problem with my camera, after importing a set of images from a CF Card. But then I imported a project which I had exported from an older (Aperture 1) Library and when Aperture started creating the new preview images I noticed the very same corruptions happening to my images which I definitely know were okay before.
I imported the project and saw the whole set of images in the browser - they looked okay (Aperture is set to use embedded thumbnails if available). I click on an image and aperture begins creating the preview. Then the corrupted version appears. Forcing a rebuild does not correct it. The corruption now appears with every new image I select, so for now I am really afraid to actually use aperture.
Naturally, as aperture is supposed to be non-invasive, I thought that whatever happened to my image was part of aperture's own rendering process, but then I notices the following:
I have two versions of my master RAW file.
1) http://pix.darph.net/raw/IMG_3908.CR2 – This version was exported out of my current Aperture 2 Library via aperture's Export Master menu.
2) http://pix.darph.net/raw/IMG_3908original.CR2 - This version is the RAW taken out of the exported (Aperture 1) project via the Finder's Show Package Content menu.
Now I moved both masters to my fiancées MacBook (which does not have Aperture installed and never had) and imported them into iPhoto. iPhoto processed the RAWs and displayed one fine ("original") and the other one with the same corruptions as you can find above. Here is a screenshot of the iPhoto-Import on the Aperture-free Mac: http://pix.darph.net/raw/iphotoimport.png
I have to assume that my RAW-File was corrupted after moving through Aperture 2.
http://pix.darph.net/raw/aperture_screenshot.png
What is happening to my files and is there a way to fix this? Any thoughts would be highly appreciated.
Thank you.
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darph wrote:
I searched the archive but only found references to Aperture crashing on import or to Aperture producing smaller artifacts. If this came up before I didn't find it and would appreciate a small bump in the right direction but for now I believe this is new:
I use Aperture 2.1.3 3G13 on a black MacBook. As camera I use a Canon EOS 450D. I am not a professional user but was intrigued enough by Apertures wonderful workflow system, so that I bought Aperture 2 after test-driving Aperture 1 und 2 before.
Aperture renders my RAWs files as follows: http://pix.darph.net/raw/aperture.jpg
I first assumed a problem with my camera, after importing a set of images from a CF Card. But then I imported a project which I had exported from an older (Aperture 1) Library and when Aperture started creating the new preview images I noticed the very same corruptions happening to my images which I definitely know were okay before.
I imported the project and saw the whole set of images in the browser - they looked okay (Aperture is set to use embedded thumbnails if available). I click on an image and aperture begins creating the preview. Then the corrupted version appears. Forcing a rebuild does not correct it. The corruption now appears with every new image I select, so for now I am really afraid to actually use aperture.
Naturally, as aperture is supposed to be non-invasive, I thought that whatever happened to my image was part of aperture's own rendering process, but then I notices the following:
I have two versions of my master RAW file.
1) http://pix.darph.net/raw/IMG_3908.CR2 – This version was exported out of my current Aperture 2 Library via aperture's Export Master menu.
2) http://pix.darph.net/raw/IMG_3908original.CR2 - This version is the RAW taken out of the exported (Aperture 1) project via the Finder's Show Package Content menu.
I've seen similar looking corruption (not in Aperture but in ACR; a long while back when I used ACR) and it was due to bad ram. It would happen sporadically. The raw file itself was never corrupted, only the output.
That said... your files open in Canon's DPP software. The "original" opens fine. The corrupt looking one does not open normally. It doesn't look like your examples, it just looks very pixelated and low res.
The DPP info. says that you have "dust delete" data on. I would wonder if Aperture is not compatible when the dust delete data info. is used (just like Aperture is not compatible with sRaw.)

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