Aperture will only import from Camera if it's the Active Application

Aperture won't let me import images from my Canon 5D Mark 2 unless I give it my full attention, ie I can't Check my email or browse the Internet on Safari etc while it is importing.
If I do it will stop importing the images until I click on the Aperture application again and then it resumes!
Pretty annoying if I am importing 800 images and can't use the computer for anything else until it has done it's job.
Any suggestions?
Message was edited by: Armagh Mac

This happens regularly for me (w. a FW800 card reader or with images already on the drive). I don't think it actually stops -- it just goes into deep background mode and does stop updating both the Activity window and the main app window.
I suspect some combination of limited hardware and a drive I/O glitch. I have never noticed it happened on Libraries which I store on external drives (yes, I do that) -- only on Libraries on the boot drive.
It (almost?) always clears when I close Safari. I don't know if this is specific to Safari, or that closing Safari releases the resources Aperture wants. I have closed everything but Safari, and seen the problem persist. Within 20 sec. of closing Safari, though, Aperture is back to steaming through the import.

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