Importing selection of images is unnecessarily difficult?

I've been trying to figure out how to import a selection of images from a card and, so far, it's got me beat. I can see how to select the files (draw a box, command+click, etc) but I can't figure out how to check them. I see the "check all" and "uncheck all" option, but I don't see an option to 'check selected" (or something similar) anywhere. I'm gonna be decidedly unhappy if I'm expected to check the actual check box manually with approx 350 files to select out of 600 or so. Am I just completely over looking how to quickly select these files?
EDIT: OK, I figured out that I could check one of the boxes and all the other boxes for selected files would check themselves. Sorry, but that was NOT intuitive.
Message was edited by: Xian Rinpoche

F Shippey wrote:
Sorry, but that was NOT intuitive
I'm afraid that in a program with as many features as Aperture 3 you will find many things that aren't intuitive for you. That's why there are manuals, help files and keyboard shortcuts cards.
Certainly a fair criticism, but in a program as robust as Aperture 3, a fairly "normal" objective should either be intuitive or should have a clear "click me" type of option. This particular action has no keyboard shortcut (that I could find) and here is entry from the help manual (online) on "selecting a subset of files":
+"To import a subset of files from the selected folder: Select the checkboxes for the files you want to import. If you only want to import a small number of files out of many, click the Uncheck All button to clear the checkboxes for all files, and then select the checkboxes for the files you want to import."+
That is clearly an instruction to click each individual box and makes no mention of drawing a box around certain files (or command/shift-clicking certain files) and then checking one box. It does not mention the solution laid out above. Whether this particular approach is detailed later is something I do not yet know. Since this particular action is not apparent in the help, the new user is expected to somehow intuit this particular step and, from my perspective, it is most certainly NOT intuitive. I think a "Check Selected" option would have been a definite improvement.
Yes, I know Aperture 3 will confuse me at certain points, but something as critical as importing should be a little less opaque to the new user...

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