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I am trying to get to the bottom of what is going wrong with importing directly from a USB 2 card reader with Sony A900 cRAW files.
If I copy the cRAW files to a folder on the Desktop using the Finder, then I can import the files into Aperture easily.
However if I try to import from the cardreader directly then I have problems.
Today I found that the problem appears to be related to what information that Aperture is able to see about the files on the card when in the reader.
The first thing that is noticed is that the preview thumbnails of the files on the card when in the reader are much lower resolution than those that have been copied via the finder to the hard drive first.
Also, the files on the card in the reader do do show their File Date, nor correct Dimensions (shown as 0 x 0)
As a consequence of this, strange things happen when trying to import and change the version name (does not import) or put the files into a subfolder based on the date of the file (goes into wrong folder for 2001/01 rather than current Year/month for example)
This is all with Aperture 2.1.2 and Camera RAW 2.3 which I need for the Sony A900 support.

The log shows this, if it helps.
14/11/2008 13:18:25 Aperture[503] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: 'Exception in Aperture: * -[NSCFString appendString:]: nil argument
No backtrace available.
' invoked observer method: '* -[RKImportWindowController _selectionChanged:]' observer: 0x2d164570 notification name: 'WorkspaceSelectionChanged'
14/11/2008 13:18:35 Aperture[503] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: 'Exception in Aperture: Cannot remove an observer <NSKeyValueObservance 0x2d129bf0> for the key path "imageFormat" from <RKImportVersionRef 0x37ce4b50> because it is not registered as an observer.
No backtrace available.
' invoked observer method: '* -[RKImportWindowController _selectionChanged:]' observer: 0x2d164570 notification name: 'WorkspaceSelectionChanged'

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