Aperture Photo Load/Preview Problem

I'm not sure if this occurred before or after the update, but in any case, recently when I imported my photos from an external HDD (on which I have my photos stored) into Aperture, it loads the photos, but in that very pixelated way; what the photo looks like before it is properly rendered. I take all my photos in Nikon's raw format (.NEF), but this only happened recently.
If I manually try to update the previews, nothing happens. In addition, the photos don't seem to be stored on my external HDD; when I check it, they aren't appearing.
I really need to find a fix for this issue quickly, because I obviously need to be able to see and work with my photos.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

I think I found out what the problem is.
It appears that the program is reading my external HDD incorrectly. When I import the files from it, I have always renamed and moved them into another folder automatically, and it has worked fine.
It seems that it imports the files, and then either deletes them, which would leave me in my current state, or something goes wrong during the import.
When I right-click any of the files, and do the thing where it locates the master, it says it's unable to find, but interestingly, it searches for a file with a (x) after the name, where the "x" is the number of times I've tried to import the same pictures. So, if I've tried to import 6 times, it will say IMG_2000(6).NEF or whatever.
When I manually relocated the file, it displays TWO external HDDs, one being one that doesn't exist, and one being the correct one. My hypothesis is that it is trying to read and import the new images from the incorrect one, and I don't know why that one shows up. It has the same name, however, but inside it it has no files.
Would you know how to fix this?

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