No previews on import.

Aperture 3.6, Mac os X 10.10.1
Some time age previews on import partly dissapeared.
Trying to delete plist, completely remove aperture, creating new library. Nothing helped.
Only some first images showing, other no. Check attached image.
Photo system - nikon.
What can i do?

So the problem is restricted to your user account and not system wide. Then try to find out, what is different in your user account and try to fix the differences.
Did you install any helper application, that are not launched, when you work from a different user account?  Any helper, that lets you select which application to open, when a camera is connected, for example?
Compare the user login items in the System Preferences > Users&Groups for the Guest user and your current user. Are there differences?
Another possibility are incompatible preferences files the user library.
Quit Aperture and remove the following files from the User Library:
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.ImageCapture2.some_weird_combination_of_l etters.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Aperture.plist
~/Library/Application Support/Aperture/Import Presets.plist
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Aperture/
Your user library may still be hidden.
To open the hidden User Library:
Click somewhere on the empty Desktop to bring the Finder forward.
Use the Finder's "Go" menu.
Click "Go", then hold down the options key, until you are seeing "Library" in the drop down menu appear and click it.
In the Finder window that will open navigate to the folders Preferences and Containers and remove the files.
Is is essential to restart the Mac after removing preferences files.

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