Importing Images--Metadata Panel

An early tutorial in the Long, Harrington, and Luna book in the Apple Training Series for Aperture 2 walks one through the steps to setup the metadata panel that will stamp each imported image with a common copyright, photographer name, etc. This panel opens when the Import function is active. It appears at the right of the screen. In the illustration in the book, and in the instance of Aperture 2 installed on my iMac, no problem--the long list has a scroll bar to reveal all of it for data entry. However, on my MacBook, there is no scroll bar present, and there is no evidence of any data entry opportunity. This is a serious problem since the aspect ratio on the MacBook screen is so wide compared to the much "taller" iMac screen. I've checked everything I can think of and am at a loss. Any ideas?
I'm running Aperture 2.1.2 on both machines and the specs for both appear in my "signature" below.
Terry

In case you are still having problem. I had similar problem as per my previous post. After some thought I determined that it was a plist file problem. Here is what I did to fix the problem:
I was able to solve the problem by deleting the com.apple.aperture.plist file
First I made note of all my preferences, then I deleted the file. Closed Aperture and then re-booted the MacBookPro.
Once I rebooted and relaunched Aperture, reset preferences and closed Aperture and then restarted Aperture and now the Import panel is back to normal with the appropriate lists showing for the "add metadata from" presets.
Hopefully this will help others.

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hog_2002 a écrit:
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