Why is Aperture 3 sooooo slow?

Let me first say I just started using Aperture 3 after using Photoshop/Lightroom for years and so far over all I LOVE it.
However I'm finding it to be extremely slow at processing images.
I made a default preset in adjustments that I would like to use on all of my images in a folder. So I lift the settings off one picture and then stamp them to the rest of the photos. (I suppose I could just highlight them all and apply the preset also?) A folder of pictures I'm working on now has 432 pictures and it will take over an HOUR.
This same process in Lightroom using synchronize would take a minute or so at the most. Often times in lightroom I would like to make a change to a picture and apply it to more pictures, which takes seconds. How can I possibly get anything done when I have to wait forever for it to process settings in Aperture?
I've tried disabling certain things like faces, installed the newest update, but its not making a difference.
This is an amazing program, but this is just ridiculously slow.
Any help would be appreciated, but I have a feeling not much can be done. I figured I'd ask anyway
Thanks

TheCipher wrote:
I tried everything suggested, still no luck. Slow as ever.
A simple -.5 contrast adjustment to 400 pics takes an hour, in Lightroom it would be seconds. I just don't get it.
Not sure what to make of that. It should not take an hour (perhaps a couple of minutes).
My understanding of how Aperture works is this:
1 - Import images > Thumbnails and Previews created for each image > completed Preview for the first Version is ready to work on once loaded in viewer.
2 - The process of creating the first Version and it's attendant Preview was achieved by reading the Master > applying the Apple recommended 'RAW Fine Tuning' settings (or using the JPEG information if JPEG Masters) > rendering the settings into the first Version (at this point you have the edit list file - 'XMP'? - in the database for this Version).
3 - When you make an adjustment, you are writing to the edit list file, which Aperture then uses to re-render the Version image.
Although this takes obvious processor power, I am not sure why the big difference between programs for you. I believe Adobe uses the processing pipeline a bit differently (although I am not sure whether they write to the edit list file in the database, or use a cache based system like Bridge).
In Aperture, since you are writing to the edit list, you are saving in real-time. When you export, you flatten the file for final use.
Sorry I could not help more. Good luck.

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