Aperture 3 slow to import

count me in - it feel like walking in deep sand.

The download speed of Aperture 3 is NOT acceptable.....it takes ten minutes to preview a 8 gig card on a new Macbook Pro.

I don't think that USB 3 will help loading images from the desktop, that's an internal drive issue. It speeds up somewhat if you uncheck the 'do not import duplicates' but it is still very, very slow!

Here, here!
If I import a folder of images I have to hit command-i to bring up the import screen, nothing ever shows up, I have to hit escape, repeat the command-i and now the images appear the second time.

And then if it's a large batch of images, all of the images have to load up before I can start the import process. Can take a VERY long time if it's a large batch.
Ap2, all you had to do was hit the Import All images and it didn't make you wait for them to load....
This *****!

I am having a terrible time importing as well. Sometimes it takes forever; and then when I go to import a second card, it will say "begninning" or something like that in the activity window, and it will never get past the "beginning". Sometimes, thouigh, its super quick and simple. The last batch was strange; it imported all the files, and then once it was done it said "completing", and it had to wait until all the files were processed (again in the activity window) before it would give me the option to delete and eject.

I'm having a different variation. I imported about 100 new images from a memory card... took 5 minutes to import then it let me close and eject the card.. which I did.

Now, 8 hours later, it still shows "importing" with a spinning icon. What is it importing? Or is it just processing? And either way, why so long? I have Faces and Places disabled.

Jim

Importing is literally "ludicrous speed" for me. Not even kidding, it is rediculous when working right. If you don't need faces, turn it off. Also turn off automatic preview generation. If you have more than one drive, use referenced masters with your images set to import to a different drive than the library.

And try this:

go to the finder and move everything to the trash that is inside these folders:

Hard Drive/Library/Caches
Hard Drive/System/Library/Caches
Hard Drive/Users/(Your user)/Library/Caches

Also delete this file:
Hard Drive/Users/(Your user)/Preferences/com.apple.aperture.plist

Reboot... It will take a little bit. Report back if this works.

Has anyone successfully migrated back to Aperture 2? Or would be going to Lightroom 2 be easier. I have by this point wasted too much of my life on Aperture 3. I have been using Aperture 3 on both Leopard then Snow Leopard on a very high-end Mac configuration (over 10 TB disk, for example) and I've seen it take 30 minutes to import 3 images from an iPhone. And that's not unusual – over the past few weeks I've grown to expect that. Also, is it just me or is Faces terrible at differentiating faces? It's great at figuring out what a face is, but it makes ridiculous guesses about whose face it is. It doesn't seem to work nearly as well as iPhoto when it first got face recognition technology. I think Apple needed to publicly beta-test AP3 like Adobe has done with each LR release. AP3 is completely pathetic and disappointing. Any professional user would be out of business by now.

Please follow the steps I outlined and report back if it solves your problem.

One piece of "good" news to report. Turns out, when you see "Importing..." or "Processing..." in the control bar, you can click on it and it pops up a dialog box with a queue that is being Imported or Processed! I found out that my "Importing..." was still trying to import from the CF Card that it had said it was finished with and ejected. I closed Aperture, re-opened, and it did not try to import anymore.

Then I got "Processing...", clicked on it and saw that it was at #35 of 112 images and counting along. Took another 15 minutes to process all the images. Whatever that means. At that point, everything was cool and fast again.

I'm a happy camper again.

JP