TKRidgely
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Photography

Q: Aperture missing file refences

I have the dreaded yellow triangle exclamation point on 1,200 of my photos in Aperture, covering a specific period of 14 months, from 5 years ago.   The rest of the 70,000 photos over 12 years, before and after that 14-month period, are fine.  Only this specific 14-month period has the yellow triangle, and only photos that were modified/edited, or have an added "name" other than the original camera file name have the dreaded yellow triangle.

 

I understand Aperture can't find the original referenced files for these photos. I have noted that when I try to Locate the Referenced File for problem photos, the problem photos all have the same reference to a USER NAME that does not exactly exist on my computer.  For example, the yellow-triangle BAD photos all reference from "users/tkridgely/Pictures....."  while all the GOOD photos reference from "users/tkridgely1/Pictures...."      That little "1" in the username is making the difference.  I'm not sure what happened over the years with backups and new laptop purchases, but I cannot find a user called "tkridgely" on my current laptop, only the house icon user called "tkridgely1".

 

I have many harddrive backups laying around the house, but darned if I can't find one that has a "tkridgely" user on it.

 

Any thoughts on a workaround on this, and how a photos from a specific period of time are referencing a username that I cannot find?

 

Thank you.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on Apr 16, 2016 6:30 PM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 18, 2016 11:18 AM in response to TKRidgely
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    Apr 18, 2016 11:18 AM in response to TKRidgely

    Try to save the previews for the photos with the missing originals, so you will atlas have them.  Select all photos from that critical period at once and drag them to a folder on your desktop. That will export the previews for these photos as JPEGs.

     

    Any thoughts on a workaround on this, and how a photos from a specific period of time are referencing a username that I cannot find?

    You may have created a different user account with a different name, when you migrated to a new Mac, and when the migration failed, migrated again with a modifies name with an added "1".

     

    Select one of the problematic images and look at the filename in the library Inspector panel.

    Then search for this filename with Spotlight. And if Spotlight cannot find it, download and search with FindAnyFile: 

    The trial is free:

    http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.html

     

    If you can find the missing files somewhere, you can reconnect them.