Cannot see imported iphoto library

I just installed the app store version of aperture. I imported my iphoto library as instructed in the demo video and with the instruction to keep the images stored in theor current location. When I go to projects the the images do not show up. Event names, dates, albums names etc show up in the previews but no images when I click on a project ( event ) I get empty boxes displaying the image names, etc. If I go back to IPhoto I can see and work on everything just fine. How can I correct this?

Fixed it. Still don't know why it happened. ( I did install a new hard drive, and that probably had something to do with it ). I deleted the library and reimported. Thumbs are populating as I type.

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I am unable to import iPhoto library into Aperture. It complains that the iPhoto version is older than 7.1.5 and thus not supported. However, I'm working with iPhoto version 9.4.3.
Any clues how to address this - rather odd... Just bought the software and have some urgent work to perform with it - so any quick helping advice would be great.
J

Jens,
which version of "Aperture Install Notes" are you referring to? Is your Aperture version the most recent donwload Aperture 3.4.5 from the AppStore? You need at least Aperture 3.3. to be able to share the libraries between iPhoto and Aperture and to use the iPhoto Library as your Aperture library.
Now, should I re-install Aperture and wipe the "imported library" to make sure I have a clean sharing between iPhoto and Aperture or does it not matter? I do not want to have double the copies
It is not necessary to reinstall Aperture, if you want to start over with a new Aperture library. The Aperture Application and the Aperture libraries are completely independent. You can simply trash the current Aperture library (by default it is in your "Pictures" folder and called Aperture Library.aplibrary). Only make sure, that your original iPhoto Library still contains all your photos. When you imported to an earlier version of Aperture, you may have moved your originals from iPhoto to Aperture. That is why I am concerned about your Aperture version.
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I have imported my iPhoto library into Aperture 3. The import must have failed because only some made it over. I chose to leave the photos in their current location. How can I do a fresh import and get the rest of the files imported (still leaving them in their current location) and not get duplicates of those already imported?

I understand what you want to say - I think - our disagreement is whether what you are complaining about is a bug or a feature, and if a feature, if it is good design or broken design .
I am not looking for Aperture to detect and reject similar files, but bit-identical images imported on separate occasions.
But when are two files identical image versions? Most users would expect two copies of the same images in two different locations on the disk to be treated as duplicates - you obviously do. And as you say, it could easily be checked, if two bitmaps are identical. The problem is conceptually:
Are two files with the same bit pattern in two different locations the same image or two similar images? Aperture does not see the history of the files. It cannot know if one image was copied from the other or if you created two similar looking images, that are de facto different images. As soon as you are dealing with copies of files you are raising the question of similarity - it is no longer an identity test.
I sometimes have images that are similar in all pixels but not duplicates of the same images. Those are images created by animation software visualizing data, and I would not want two similar images with identical bitmaps but belonging to different experiments to be treated as identical images.
Are identical twins the same person - everyting the same, only name and location differ?
Furthermore, sharing master files should not be a big problem since master files are just that: masters.
As long as you remember that you are sharing the masters. If you relocate masters in Aperture you will be stealing iPhoto's masters; if you delete an image in Aperture or iPhoto you may delete a master that is used by the other Application, if you batch change your images in Aperture and select "apply to masters" you are changing the master image files. I would not risk it, but it is up to you.
Try it: import from iPhoto, and then import again. Even with duplicate detection, you get images twice.
True
Lets talk about the different ways to import to iPhoto.
When you drag from the iPhoto Browser there is no way to turn on "Do not import duplicates", so no promises made and no promises broken - no bug, but maybe a bad feature.
When you import an iPhoto Library, there is the checkbox "Do not import duplicates", and this is ignored - you are perfectly right . But we still disagree - I consider the presence of the checkbox to be the bug - a bug in the GUI, not the import of the duplicates - for what do you expect to happen, when you import a library? It does not make any sense at all to import a library structure and omit some images, only because they are alredy present in the library you are importing to. Aperture would have to merge the newly imported iPhoto library with your current library, but for that we would need a "Merge Library" option, not an import option. This would have a big impact on your existing library structure, but might be useful, so make a feature request to Apple.... (Aperture menu -> Send feedback)
Just try dragging a file in twice. No warning, no message, no annotation.
Again, this is a feature (maybe a bad one), but not a bug, since no promises are made that you will be prevented from dragging in duplicate images.
Make a feature request ...
This is not hard to accomplish, and it is done by other software.
I like not to be bothered with warning messages when I am dragging carefully selected images to Aperture that I want to import, then I want those images together in one project, independent of potential duplicates, and I do not want to be bothered with warning messages while I am dragging ...
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Léonie

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I am having the EXACT same issues and it is driving me insane.
I have been searching and searching for an answer and nothing.
there is this thread here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4311146&#4311146
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Helene,
Both of those things you pointed out are mere *metadata*.
When you imported your iPhoto library, since you did a copy, your libraries are completely independent.
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Hello,
It worked on the path import/iphoto browser.
That is, because this will show the current iPhoto Library, the one you last opened with iPhoto.
I wonder why not through library? That path has no library to choose from
Here you are supposed to point out the library you want to import using the file chooser: You have to locate it all by yourself.
In the dialogue that opens navigate to your Pictures Folder and select your iPhoto Library.
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My master folder in iphoto is 25gb in aperture is 13
So either quite a few masters have not been imported, or the masters have been imported with the wrong resolutzin, or your iPhoto "Masters" folder contains additional files - duplicate versions, or raw files.
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