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Importing.

Trying to import from a 32 GB CF card - I have maybe 6 different days shooting on it.

Have tried to import selected batches of photos to separate projects relevant to the day taken.

In theory I have imported all projects but have about 20 files that keep showing as unimported despite having don't import duplicates listed.

They are movs from a Canon 5D II

I've restarted Aperture and the same bunch of files will import again to a project (duplicates) and still remain listed for import.

I don't know what's causing this but it dents my confidence in Aperture's file handling capability/library integrity - I've not seen it before.

Any ideas?

I've had to force quit once or twice with the latest update too.

Posted on Nov 17, 2012 2:12 AM

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léonie

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Posted on Nov 17, 2012 3:57 AM

I've had to force quit once or twice with the latest update too.

Hi, Alley_Cat,

so you are running Aperture 3.4.3?

Did you repair and/or rebuild the library after force-quitting?

And can you exclude the card reader/ camera as a problem? Does the same happen, if you import the videos from a folder on your desktop? Also, when importing from a different user account?

Léonie

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Alley_Cat Author

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Nov 3, 2013 3:31 AM in response to Alley_Cat

OK - this is happening again - now on a 16GB CF card which had old shots on there.

It was full of photos from March 2013 and some videos. I shot some new stuff on Oct 31st.

3 of the videos from March are showing up to import but not the photos.

After some searching the video have already imported.

I may be closer to the reason but am not sure why!

It looks to be something to do with the timestamps for the videos:

For example, movie file already in library:

but in import dialogue:

There is an hour's difference!

Is Aperture treating time differently somehow for video compared to pics? Could it be a camera specific issue? I often forget to change the camera for daylight saving (GMT vs BST).

Nov 3, 2013 12:53 PM in response to Alley_Cat

Very odd. Still concerned with files being added to a CF card if anything has been erased on it, while in the camera, or even in the computer. If the camera tries to fit new stuff within space vacated from prior uses, don't know how to predict.

Whenever you can safely do so, you need to reformate this card in the camera.

Ernie

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Nov 3, 2013 1:23 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

Thanks Ernie. I've sent feedback via the usual route as I suspect this is an issue with some difference in encoding time in EXIF vs MOV metadata.

I would not have erased anything from the card in all honesty.

When I've copied a card's content over to several drives I will generally reformat in camera to erase everything.

In this case I'd filled one CF card and the others I had with me were nearly but not quite full, with a couple of 100MB spare on each - for whatever reason I had not reformatted them in camera before travelling which caused a slight doubt that I may not have ever imported them but on returning home it was clear I had.

So in essence this was just a case of removing a nearly full card, then putting it back and using the remaining space without any specific file deletion.

I'm sure you can see though why this issue caused me to doubt the import was completing properly in Aperture with potential for data loss.

I've seen the same issue importing from a DCIM folder I've copied to a hard drive but not imported to Aperture immediately or using older photos with the current library that i had rediscovered from long ago.

Nov 3, 2013 2:29 PM in response to Alley_Cat

Which version of Aperture, btw? If 3.4.5, I will examine my files between image and video. In my experiments with 10.9 and 3.5, I don't think I have imported video.

I have two cards in my D800, and I send all video to the SDHC card, and all photos to the CF card, unless the latter fills up, and the camera seconds to the SDHC.

Ernie

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Nov 3, 2013 4:10 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

Yes 3.4.5 but the issue started months ago.

My 5D Mark II only has a single compact flash slot and saves photos and video to the same folder.

I've fiddled with Time Zone setting that LeonieDF mentions in the WC, but didn't help.

I now have a duplicate video project which has 2 versions of the same videos differing only by 1 hour in the time, but import still lists the videos as not imported even though one of the imports matches by time.

Nov 4, 2013 6:44 AM in response to Alley_Cat

Just checked a recent shoot where both video and photos were taken. The date and time stamp looked identical between a video file and photo file. Both were labeled with EDT, btw.

Ernie

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Nov 4, 2013 12:03 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

Thanks.

Little things dent your confidence...