Comment 1 for bug 678024

When proof-reading this document for Jason, I started wildly nodding when I came to point number five. This somewhat involuntary response was triggered by memories of me dumping off memory cards from the last wedding that I shot. I wasted so much time just waiting for all 3500 photos to import; Aperture wouldn't even let me rate my photos and create sub-folders during the import process. If I could have rated and cropped photos during importing, I probably would have saved a good two hours. And time is of the essence when brides have internet access in their honeymoon suites; they are excited and want to see beautiful photos of themselves now not later.

The other point that I enthusiastically support has to do with file duplication. I'm quickly running out of space on my hard-drive; it's gotten so bad that I've started eliminating some of my HD movies that I purchased through i-tunes. So of course, it irks me when video and photo files end up duplicated; sometimes it takes me a while to realize duplication has happened (mainly because Aperture will separate duplicated files in the thumb-nail line-up) and that I need to do some trashing.

To sum up, a big thumbs up for points five and one from someone who usually works with thousands of photo files in one sitting.