Workaround (??) for layered PSD imported as flatenned PSD problem.

So first the fact that Aperture does not support importing layered PSD files is a huge problem (BUG/Feature) that's gotta get fixed.
In the mean time, I found out below:
* When a file is imported, it is saved in a bundle in Aperture Library under:
ProjectName.approject.
* Right-click and Show Package Contents on the bundle.
* You will see a bunch of folders that end with .apimportgroup. (If you did a single import into that project then there is only one.)
* You can either open those folders or search using Spotlight for the file name. Aperture stored each file in a dedicated folder under the .apimportgroup folder. So if you use spotlight look at the folder with the same file name of the image.
* Good News: Aperture still has the original PSD file with the layers in that folder.
* Now go back to Aperture and open that image with "Open With External Editor" and after it opens just save and close Photoshop without doing anything.
* Now Aperture created a new folder for you with the name as "ImageName 1". Go back to Finder and open that folder. In that folder you will now see the flattened PSD file.
* Copy the original PSD file from the original folder into the newly created folder overriding the flattened PSD file. (Agree to replace the file when the dialog pops up.)
* Go back to Aperture. Now if you open the versioned file with Photoshop you will get back your layers!!
So as you can see it is very easy to import PSD files with layers. Now repeat the above procedure for your other 10000 PSD files and you will be done. (Automator anyone??)
Cheers!
PowerMac G5 2.7 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

It seems from what I've seen that the problem isn't in importing layered PSDs, they import fine, and if you do an export from master, you will get an untouched copy of your layered file. The problem is that if you "Open in External Editor" when your master is a PSD, Aperture has to make a version of that file before it opens it in PSD, and the version that it makes is flattened.
So it looks like this would work to deal with this, but what a kludge!

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