Aperture eats my Raw files

I brought Aperture from the get go, loved the program but couldn't handle the filing system, how happy I was to get 1.5. Been away for a month shooting in Namibia, got everything sorted with keywords etc. Aperture has now started to eat my raw files, lost 500 before I quit the program and called Apple. I'm not the only one to have the problem, and I'm sure not to be the only one who can't go back to take the pix again.

I lost one (all that I know of so far). However, Aperture had dropped it from its index system, but it was in the library.
When I noticed the gap in the file number sequence, I tried rebuilding (2x but to no avail). So, I looked in the "show package contents" for the library and the prject. There was a folder for my image file number and inside was my image.
Since Aperture couldn't rebuild it, I dragged it out to the desktop, started up Aperture and re-imported it.
A hassle and a concern, so I reported it to Aperture Devt Feedback.
You may want to look inside the library as above if your using managed vs. reference masters (as I assume from your post).
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Have fun.
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I had a chance to talk to product managers from both Apple & Adobe about this at PhotoPlus Expo in NYC a couple years back. Both seemed receptive, but here we are - years later - no progress.
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Okay, i've been through a million different ways - files look GREAT, then you load them into Aperture and they look like sh*t.
And i finally figured out a way to PROVE that Aperture is screwing up my files! Here's what I did:
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1. Photo Mechanic: Loaded a RAW file into photo mechanic, it looked nice - exactly like it looked on my camera screen, did absolute nothing to it, exported it as a JPG. It came out looking NICE! Nice soft colors, lots of subtleties, beautiful. Could be a little sharper, but I wanted to make absolutely NO adjustments - since the test was for overall color and image quality.
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***????? So annoying!!! This happens over and over and over again.
It's YOU Aperture! Not me!! Not my files! Not my camera - which i've brought back to get checked countless times to see if something was wrong with the camera.
It's really annoying. You have to fix it! There are countless comments online about this same problem. FIX IT!!!!!!!
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