Aperture slow import

I have a strange problem that has just appeared in Aperture V3. Everything works fine until i try to import pictures from my Memory card. The program just goes very slow and import takes ages, its a full min before i can even see the card etc. I get the spinning ball of death for about 35 seconds then drives etc start to appear on the left side. Once the pictures have imported then they take an age to process this never used to do this. Up until i put the card into the card reader aperture runs a dream with zero problems. I have rebuilt the library and the pictures do scroll a little better and the thumbnails appear faster. Can anybody help with this problem as it never used to do it.

I would suggest amending your workflow,
1. Insert your card
2. Copy the images from the card to a HDD
3. Eject the card, (leaving images on there!)
4. Import into Aperture
5. Backup
6. Reformat card in camera
I Found switching to this workflow speed the process dramatically and has a number of benefits with regard to image file integrity.
Tony

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Have you upgraded your OS ans all your Apps to the latest Versions and also rebooted the system?
Turn on the Activity Viewer (Windows ->Show Activity) while importing, to see how Aperture is spending its time.
Also launch some tools from the Application -> Utilities folder:
launch the Console window, to check for diagnostics /error messages
launch the Activity Viewer, to see how much RAM and CPU time Aperture and other processes are using.
How much space is free on your system drive? And on the drive you are importing to?
If you find in the Activity Viewer, that Aperture is slow, but de facto using not much CPU time, then the problem may be a corrupted Aperture Library or corrupted preference files.
Try to import into a new, empty Aperture library and see if the problem persists.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805
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1. Aperture sometimes, one out of three times perform a slow import from a compactflash card. Normally 10 images (nikon d-200 10 mb) in less than a minute. Sometimes the same ammount takes more than 5 minutes. Reconnecting the cardreader on the front usb connection solves the problem.
2. Using the sliders on highlights and shadows, the adjustment of image takes a little time, no instant reaction.
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iemke

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Hi there,
I upgraded to 2.0 on Friday, and have only done a library conversion so far. After reading your post, I was curious, and wanted to immediately tried a card import to see if I was getting the same slowness.
My usual workflow involves Photo Mechanic for card ingest, original backup, and first pass editing, then import the goodies from hard disk to Aperture, so I typically would not see a card issue.
I have a Firewire 800 reader, but was using a Sandisk Extreme III card for test. I put it into my Nikon D200, shot 30 shots, into the D300, another 30 and then the D3, for 39 shots. All RAW, the 200's are about 9MB, the 300's are 16MB and the D3 were around 24MB. The 99 images, about 1.6GB were in my Aperture library in a little under 4 minutes. I will assume using the UDMA cards may speed that up...but I was not put off by the speed I witnessed.
I will say that Apple's USB 2.0 implementation is VERY slow...sadly it is really awful compared to a typical PC...the good news is that Firewire is MUCH faster. If you are not aware of this difference...take any hard drive that has both FW and USB 2.0 interfaces, and run a disk benchmark using each interface. On a PC, the numbers will be similar...on a Mac the USB is just a lot slower. Soooo...while I don't think this would answer why any import would take HOURS...I would strongly recommend that you have FW card readers on a Mac.

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Check your Import settings in the Import Panel, i.e. all that might exclude the image type you want to import:
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Léonie
P.S. in MacOS Lion and later the user library ~/Library is hidden by default.
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