Importing taking forever
I am new to Macs and to Aperture as well... I just got my Mac and find that when I have tried to import my first photos into Aperture, it's "loading" for extensive periods of time and I can't do any edits, even if it's just one image. Is there a step I'm missing? Does anyone know why it's taking so long?
Unsure of your question(s)
Are photos importing successfully?
Are you importing direct from a card?
Are you trying to do things while aperture is still importing or are you waiting for the import to finish?
There may be other activity occurring once the import has completed, if you look at the bottom of the browser window there maybe an indication that thumbnails or previews are being built, or go to the pulldown menu>window/show activity. If you are importing a significant number of images depending on your machine configuration and preference settings these processes may take a while.
Tony
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