Very slow import on a Mac

Copying images to a new location, importing images from a CF card, and generating previews directly into Lightroom is painfully slow-90 minutes or more for an 8 gig card. However, manually copying the images to my hard-drive and then importing and rendering previews cuts the time to approximately five minutes.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem? (At a workshop this past weekend, every mac user had the same problem.) Does anyone know how to fix the problem?
I suppose that I can just manually copy and import the images but that defeats the purpose of having the auto import feature.
Brian

The only workaround that I know of for the PC is to use Nikon Camera Control Pro. This should let you shoot tethered while working in Lightroom. You can also set up a watch folder in Lightroom so as Camera Control Pro transfers images to the watch folder they will be automatically imported into Lightroom. (Not sure if Lightroom will import new images in the watch folder while importing images from a memory card. Doubt it.) Camera Control Pro is also available for the Mac.
If you are a Mac user, there is a very nice donation-ware alternative to Camera Control Pro called Sofortbild at http://www.sofortbildapp.com/. There may be an alternative for the PC but I don't know about it if there is.
Brian

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Aperture 3.1.3 Very slow importing raw files please help

Pro Photographer. I have a Mac Pro Quad core 1 yr old with 12GB Ram. I import via 2 Firewire 800 card readers - A Lexar & a UDMR Reader.Only using them singly. System has 4 1TB hard drives 1. Applications, 2. Aperture Library, 3. Aperture Vault, 4 Time Machine
On a photo shoot, first CF card may download and complete in less than a minute but the next card with a similar number ofimages may take 10 minutes.
Sometimes if I swap card readers, this can speed up download but then everything slowly grinds to a halt.
I have closed down all other programmes, switched off Faces and Enable Gestures - switched off Look up places.
Situation driving me nuts as we shoot and view images with customers immediately after the session and download time effecting the amount of time we have to do this. Nothing seems logical as such a high spec machine should theoretically fly through this.

• If you are uploading directly into Aperture, don't. Instead first copy to a folder on the hard drive.
• Capture RAW+JPEG and tell Aperture to use the camera JPEGs for Previews.
HTH
-Allen Wicks

Very slow import on a Mac

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