Hey all.
I’ve been a long time Aperture user, since the days when I was an APP @ Apple for Aperture.
But one issue has been bugging me for about 18 months and I can’t find the reason.

Aperture seems to be killing my RAW files.
I mean they are black/blank files in Aperture and in finder. It happens to about 5 to 10 files out of 100 and the way I can get them to work is convert them to DMG files before it gets too bad.
I have backed up most of my work (Thank god) but some files it doesn’t matter if I make a copy it still does it.
I’ve got no idea what to do, I’ve got over 150,000 files and cannot go back and fix every file that is stuffed
What I don’t get is these files work file in both photoshop and lightroom, they cannot be previewed finder but the icon is there and viewable.

I’m using a sony a200 & a550 but its also happening with a canon 50D files.
I’m at the point where I want to almost get rid of aperture and stick to lightroom because I can’t risk losing any more files.
I’ve kept Aperture updated, I’m now using 3, but it happened on 2 as well.

Has this happened to anyone else? I’m running 10.6(latest updates) and my hard drives are all healthy, it also happens on the Mac OSX hard drive as well as all my other hard drives., It happens sometimes a few minutes after I import or a few weeks after I import, I mostly see it happening when I add to the metadata but sometimes its also when I have a image with no metadata.

Please, surely there’s a fix or somebody knows whats going on.

Thanks
Steven