Fullview RAW/JPG Images in Aperture appear fractured and/or solid black

Hey guys,
I'm very close to throw something out of the window.
I changed from iPhoto to Aperture 3.5.1 a few month ago and imports from my 400D Canon and iPhone/iPad worked finde until recently, when Aperture decided not to show thefull view anymore. It does show it either solid black or cramped full of pixel fragments from other programs.
Below you can see how the mess looks like. The pictures were pixled by me after the Screenshot
I already tried rebuilding the Database, backed the pictures up to our NAS and reinstalled Aperture. Nothing works. Thumbnails in Aperture seem to look fine and the CR2 Files are being opened in Photoshop just like always, eventhough Preview seems to have the same problem.
I'd be so glad if any of you had a solution to my little problem ;_;
Greetings from Hamburg Germany
Nina

I changed from iPhoto to Aperture 3.5.1 a few month ago and imports from my 400D Canon and iPhone/iPad worked finde until recently, when Aperture decided not to show thefull view anymore.
Did you recently install the new Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 5.05 ?
You can check this in the "About" panel from the main menu bar: Aperture > About Aperture.
If you now are having the most recent raw support, did the problem occur directly after installing it?
If reimporting did not help, try to create a new Aperture library (File > Switch to Library > other/new) and try to import a RAW file into the new library. Does that work?
Hummel Hummel aus Hamburg
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