Tethered shooting/import duplicates

i can shoot tethered into aperture ...works great...except that if i shoot faster, i drop frames....the frames are shot to the card and to the HD, the faster i shoot, the more frames don't make it into the HD....aperture does NOT warn me, that: i am dropping frames or shooting too fast....but i am shooting it to card as well, so i can stop the session, take the card out of the camera and import directly into the same folder...BUT even with the "do not import duplicates" box checked, it does just that...imports ALL files and so i have doubles of the ones that already made it while i was tethered! i am not changing the file names or any meta data but still end up with a folder that has a majority of duplicate files? why even put the checkbox there if it does not register?
all this in 2.01....i actually haven't seen a difference at all...the .mac sync does not work for me either....

EOS Utility doesn't require a lot of memory. Just have it open in the background and Bridge looking at the folder you've specified. With Bridge CS3 they pop right up unlike earlier versions which often had issues.

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