Aperture/Mac Pro freeze in mid import

Question

The computer freezes in the middle of Aperture imports. The first time it happened, I restarted, went back to Aperture and the software freezes up--from here, I can force quit. I've tried everything that I can think of to address this issue: I tried resetting preferences, with no result. I rebuilt my library, and that gave me access to Aperture again, but every time I try to import, the whole computer freezes halfway through. I uninstalled, reinstalled, it fixed the problem, but again, the computer freezes on import. I restored my library from the vault, again, problem fixed, then freezes up on import. I'm a pro, and I use aperture to upload client files to my ftp. I can't be without this program and my library. Any other suggestions? I'm desperate!!! (It's not a card reader or raw file issue, the same pics upload into iPhoto just fine--no problems. I upgraded to the new Mac Pro less than a month and have had no other problems. All other software etc. works perfectly.)

Answer 1

Please let me know if you find anything out about this problem. I'm about to download Lightroom and give up on Aperture for good. I don't want to do this because I have an aperture plugin that connects me with my pro lab and event hosting service. Now I'll have to manually size my images and get some ftp program like fetch. All of this is going to equal a lot more work for me. So if you resolve this issue, I would love to find out how. (I didn't have any problems before my last update, and the version on my MacBook Pro (not updated from 2.0) still seems to work. It's just so slow! you think it's an update issue?)