Problem importing photos from card reader

I have been successfully importing photos from my camera's memory card using a card reader. I was half way through a similar import, when a pop up came up on screen to say I was running out of disc space. So I deleted some other files to make room and the import appeared to complete. I then organised these photos into albums, when iPhoto unexpectedly quit. When I opened it again the albums still recognise that there are photos there but you can not view or edit them. Any help appreciated.

I did do a test and yes if you have a folder on your SD card, you will get an "Import" link. If not, no importing ability. I was not able to import a .m4v movie however. I was able to import a .MOV that was taken by an iPhone but not a .mov from another application.
I'd say the hack to import into an iPad using the Apple SD Card Reader is make sure the media files are in a folder named DCIM on an SD card (as you mentioned) with the 8 character naming convention.

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Launch Image Capture (in your Apps Folder) and use it to move the pics to the desktop. Then try import from there.
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Macuser72 wrote:
Aperture is not importing all photos from the card reader, i tried importing 720 photos and it was only seeing 480 photos, the card reader stopped reading, aperture was saying "loading assets", still, like if it was still reading the card. and the first time it loaded the pictures the import button was not availllable once not all the photos were not all loaded when the loading assets message stopped.
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When you say "the first time it loadedthe pictures" you mean you attempted before and got the same result?
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1. Create a new folder on your desktop, then connect your card reader. Double-click one of the photos on the camera card to confirm that it opens properly, as you've said they normally do. Drag-copy the same photo from your camera card into the folder on the desktop. Now double-click the copy. Does it behave exactly the same way as the original, or not?
2. Now drag-copy a different photo — one that you've never opened on your computer — from the camera card into the folder on the desktop. Double-click the copy to open it. Does it behave exactly the same way as the photo that you had previously opened from the camera card, and then copied into folder on the desktop?
It may be necessary, for the results of this experiment to be most informative, to reformat your card in your camera and shoot some new photos before conducting the experiment. Reformatting will erase the photos currently on the card. But since they seem to be corrupt anyway, you've already lost them. Copy them all to your computer first anyway, in case any of them are not yet corrupt.
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