Aperture won't import my RAW photos! help!

I am new to aperture and have a Nikon D80. when I try to import ANY format containing a RAW image, I get a message that says, "unsupported image format" There must be a prefrence I just havn't adjusted yet, but I can't find it to save my life. Is there anyone who can help? Thanks....and Happy New Year!!

Hello! I had the exact same problem. I came across a posting in this forum (don't recall where) where the poster had this problem and obviously had done a very thurough investigation as to what may cause the problem. He had found, that a "haxie" program called FruitMenu he was using, was the root of the problem with "unsupported image format" in Aperture for RAW images that were actually supported by Aperture according to the specification.
I am also using FruitMenu but following his suggestion, I disabled it for Aperture in the FruitMenu preferences but had it "active" for other applications.
This got rid of the "unsupported image format" for RAW images just like that.
I can now import RAW directly into Aperture and have them display at all times.
So, If you happen to run FruitMenu yourself, go into the FruitMenu preferences and disable Aperture under "Manage Excluded Applications". Hope this will work for you!
Göran
Mac Pro quad 2.66MHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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File -> Export. Check the box at 'Title and Keywords' in iPhoto and the keywords will be written to the file.
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