"Exploring Aperture 3" Chapter 2: "Importing Images"

I got through chapter 1 just fine. In the next chapter, I am trying to do the "Try This" on page 37. When I click the Import button and select wildlife, there are no images, just a large gray screen. No images and no import browser below where the images should be. The import list is seen on the left and on right there is the Aperture Library area near the top. Below that is gray. The toolbar buttons are faded except "import" and "new". In the lower right corner, "cancel" is lit, but the "import Checked" button is faded.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance...

Problem fixed. I had to make a choice between my printer and my computer which is listed between the Inspector and the Toolbar.

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It tells me that there is not enough space in the Aperture volume.
Is your library managed or referenced? If referenced, are the library and the originals on the same volume? And how full are the system drive and the drive with the library?
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Trouble with aperture importing images or perhaps seeing drive.

i keep my images on an external bus powered drive (120gb lacie rugged drive), for a while aperture would let me import images (i want to use a referenced library) from this drive. at some point aperture would not see any of the images or folders on this drive. aperture may have appeared to think it was some other kind of volume? (a cf card perhaps?)
are there any known problem with bus powered drives and aperture?
this was all with the 30 day trial version which has since expired, i'm afraid that i am a little vague with info. to compound matters ive had a drive failure, so while this all happened with 10.4.8, but now i'm now back on 10.4.6.
i have an educational version (xmas present) that i can install, but before i break the seal and install it, i want to make sure that i will be able to use this drive to store my images.
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I import images, step away from my computer, come back screen is blank (display asleep) the computer is not. I hit the space bar to bring it back to life and then try to do the next import. For some reason Aperture cant find the disk after that. I can get to it in finder and see the filesystem and folders.
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Hi,
It seems my Aperture updates and when i import images now. For example from an SD card, the import action goes ahead.... I choose source, create a FOlder ti import into, choose location on hard drive to store... IMPORT... and after a while importing all images and previewa appearing, I get an error message saying ¨Import Items Completed with Errors¨, 0 items have been imported into the projhect named X. Aperture failed to import x items listed below.
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Doesn't matter if the images are jpeg, gif, RAW or whatever.
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Really ticking me off as I've been on deadline and my Photoshop CS3 won't open Canon 7D RAW files. (I refuse to buy anymore Photoshops due to the RAW plugin blackmail to upgrade). Had to use Canon DPP to convert the files since my DNG converter was outdated and I was in the field with no bandwidth to download a new one.
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I also have this problem, both on my desktop and my laptop while using Aperture 3. This is just one of many, many bugs which is causing me a lot of frustration while using this. Apple, you really need to fix this, and the other bugs -- which are considerable and numerous.
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Aperture cannot locate newly imported referenced images

My friend and I both use Aperture (3.4.3) on OSX 10.7.5.
She recently started having an issue when importing photos as referenced, with images stored on her external hard drive.
After importing, on all images she gets the red slash thru the 'referenced master' badge, indicating that Aperture cannot locate the master images. Aperture also refuses to reconnect with the master images. It's worth noting that all other images in her library are correctly "referenced" to the same external hard drive. The issue is with newly imported images.
The only solution thus far is for her to import as managed, then relocate original out to the external hard drive.
She has both repaired and rebuilt her Aperture library with no change.
She has run Disk Utility on both her external hard drive and her internal hard drive which contains her Aperture library. No errors were found.
Has anyone seen anything like this? Suggestions are welcome!

Have you verified file permissions on the external drive? To avoid permissions problems on an external disk, I just enable "Ignore Ownership" for the entire volume using the Get Info command for it. I do this only for non-boot data only volumes where Aperture libraries are stored. (Actually you can't do it for boot volumes anyway)
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When I try to import images from a recently acquired Panasonic LF1 camera Aperture only shows movie clips and not the JPEGs.
And how are the settings in the "raw&jpeg pairs" brick of the import panel? If that is set to "raw only", your jpegs will not be imported. Set the raw&jepg option to "both, jpeg as master"
The raw format of your camera does not yet appear to be supported.
http://www.apple.com/aperture/specs/raw.html
Regards
Léonie

Is there a way to import images that have been edited and assign them to the original?

I am transitioning to mac and aperture. Is there a way to import images that have been edited and assign them to the original? I have 10,000 originals and about 2,000 edited images. The originals are named img_XXXX and anything modified img_XXXX_modified. I would like to be able to import the originals and then import the edited versions and assign them to the original masters. Instead of starting from here and going forward with 12,000 masters, some of which are actual originals and others not. Thanks for the help.

Ah, the vestiges of a destructive workflow! Once you "get" Aperture, (specifically Masters and Versions) you are going to love it, as all of this work goes away - the relationship that you seek to retain is automatic in Aperture; it is simply done differently.
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-- Stick the originals in one Project(s) and the edited versions in another Project(s).
-- Stick them all in the same Project(s) and "Stack" them.
But here is the real question: Why are you doing all of this work and what are you trying to accomplish? Seems you are trying to preserve old things that don't need preserving in a non-destructive workflow.
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-- The original, out of camera files? (That is, the fear/need to revert.)
-- The edited versions? (That is the hours of work that it took you to get there.)
If the former, import the originals and ignore the edited versions. (Either simply leave them out on disk or import them into their own Projects which you ignore.) Use Aperture to recreate the work you had done previously. This will always give you the ability to revert to the original Master and create as many Versions as you want. This is the best idea if your edits are relatively simple crops and exposure adjustments,
If the latter, then import the edited versions and do as above with the originals. This makes more sense if your work uses lots of layers and, perhaps lots of clone tool type corrections.
Of course, you can do a bit of both.
Others may have better suggestions, but you will find it easy to answer your own question when you understand an image based, as opposed to a file based, non-destructive workflow.
Good luck!

"Exploring Aperture 3" Chapter 2: "Importing Images"

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