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I recently purchased the Nikon D90 and of course I am playing with it this weekend. The images appear fine once imported into Aperture, however, the images do not appear on the import screen. At this point the images are still on the SD card in the camera. Currently they only appear as a grey box. The images will import into Aperture but the images don't appear on the import screen.
Has any one else had this issue? Had did you do for the photos to appear in the import screen?
Thanks

What you describe is IMO a workflow problem because IMO importing original images directly into any images management app is bad practice. IMO Aperture should not even allow direct card-to-Aperture import because it is not safe images handling practice.
Take a look at the suggested workflow below.
IMO generally most useful to help keep drives underfilled and fast (drives slow as they fill) is to manage by Reference ("referenced images") as in the workflow outline below where Master images can live anywhere. However with small changes similar workflow could be applied to Managed Masters.
I feel pretty strongly that card-to-Aperture or even camera-to-Aperture handling of original images puts originals at unnecessary risk. I suggest this workflow, first using the Finder (not Aperture) to copy images from CF card to computer hard drive:
• Remove the CF card from the camera and insert it into a CF card reader. Faster readers and faster cards are preferable, and Firewire is much preferable to USB2.
• Finder-copy images from CF to a labeled folder on the intended permanent Masters location hard drive.
• Eject CF.
• Burn backup hard drive or DVD copies of the original images (optional recommended backup step).
• Eject backup hard drive(s) or DVDs.
• From within Aperture, import images from the hard drive folder into Aperture selecting "Store files in their current location." This is called "referenced images."
• Review pix for completeness (e.g. a 500-pic shoot has 500 valid images showing).
• Reformat CF in camera, and archive originals off site on hard drives and/or on DVDs.
Note that the "eject" steps above are important in order to avoid mistakenly working on removable media.
Good luck!
-Allen Wicks

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