Reconnect All doesn't work

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Reconnect All doesn't work

As a way to remedy the problem with lost master files, I'm going through the process of reconnecting the master files. Unfortunately, I can't the the "Reconnect All" function to work. I'm selecting a set of files that need to be reconnected. I select "Manage Referenced Files". I select all of the files in the upper pane and one of the files in the lower pane and click "Reconnect All" Only the file selected in the lower pane gets reconnected. There is no way to select multiple files in the lower pane.

What am I doing wrong?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Dec 13, 2007 11:44 AM

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Dec 14, 2007 7:39 AM in response to rsmithgi

Follow up to this problem.

My referenced masters are on an external disk. That disk was formatted as a FAT32 drive. Yesterday I copied all of the masters to a different disk and reformatted the disk as MacOS Extended (with the same volume name). I then copies all of the files back to the original disk.

Aperture (of course) could not find any of the files and listed them as offline. Curiously some of the files were still marked as "not found" rather than offline. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to which files were marked off line and which were marked not found.

I went ahead and tried the process of reconnecting the masters and the "Reconnect all" process worked. Interestingly, it work for both files marked offline and not found.

For now, Aperture seems to have been satisfied. There are still some bugs in how Aperture is handling referenced masters. I hope Apple acknowledges and fixes these problems.

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