Can't import onto external drive

when i try to import through aperture onto my external drive i get the message "You cannot choose this destination for your files." obviously, this should not be.
I have restarted aperture, rebooted my external drive several times to no avail.
WHAts up with this?!?!!

Try copying the files to that location using the Finder. Then import from Aperture while leaving them in their current location.
See if that works... I'll bet you find an issue somewhere along the process that should lend a hint to what's going on.

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I found the USB cable for the drive, connected it to a powered USB hub (note that there are two cables going into the hub that must merge and go into a single connector for the USB interface on the drive). with both cables plugged in I still can't get the external drive to boot.
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I only have one master computer password, and it's not the same as any of my other passes. That's the pass that's needed to log on, and access system info. However it's also the same password as my old profile, that I was migrating over (which is still confusing as to how to do a clean install and then bring old admin info over so they work together seemlessly) so now when trying to log on, after the first reboot, I saw that I could log on to the old or the new profile. As well as a guest account, which isn't accessible though.
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The box shakes only if you did get it wrong, so I don't understand what you mean about there being no chance that you got it wrong.
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