Why does aperture run so slow

i have loaded a very larg number of photos into aperture.  now the app runs so slow it is impossible to use.  what am i doing wrong?

what am i doing wrong?
Probably nothing.
You might turn on the "Activity" window in Aperture, to see what Aperture is doing (from Aperture's main menu bar: "Window > Show Activity". After importing it will need plenty of time to render previews, detect faces, assign places, etc. Best let it run over night.
Other things that might be a problem:
Aperture will slow down, if the project are too large. Did you import all images into one single project? Keep the projects small, not much larger than about 200 images per project.
And if your harddisk becomes full, you may slow down the mac considerably.Try to keep at least 20 GB of your harddisk free.
You may have imported a corrupted image or an incompatible video. If that is the case, than Aperture will try over and over again to render a preview and not succeed. It might help, to disable the rendering of previews, until you have spotted the video or image that is causing the problem
How much RAM do you have, and how full is your disk?
Regards
Léonie

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