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Aperture 3 missing previews

I'm using Aperture 3.0.1 and have a slight 'glitch'.
All the previews have vanished from a single project and I cannot re-instate them. So when I select the project I have an empty browser.
They were there previously, until i 'experimented' with Places. I selected a photo in the project, clicked Places and put in the relevant information.When I returned to the browser all my previews had gone.
My missing pictures are still viewable when I click 'Photo's' but I cant seem to get them back into the project.
I tried repairing permissions and re-building the library but no joy.
I tried selecting the project and then went to 'Photo's' to see if I could re generate previews but the options are greyed out.
I think I have missed something obvious but cant put my finger on it...... Can anyone advise please...
Thanks...... Gerry....

imac 20" 2.4GHz/ 2GB & 15"MBP 2.66GHz/4GB, Mac OS X (10.6.2), imac/ 500Gb & MBP 320GB

Posted on Mar 3, 2010 1:09 PM

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Mar 4, 2010 1:57 PM in response to windhoveruk

Hi.......
I thought I would share my solution to my problem with everyone, just incase you meet the same issue.

I could not see the pictures in a particular project because I was playing around with Places. While doing so, I had not realised, that the search criteria in the search field, had accidentally been left on the 'pins' symbol to indicate 'places' marked with pins.

When I switched the search criteria, using the drop down arrow, to 'showing all'... I was re-united with a project full of previews again.

So the reason my photo's were not available in the project was solely because I had the wrong search criteria visible in the search field..... I knew I had missed something...!!

If it's of any help to anyone......

Gerry........

Mar 9, 2010 2:29 PM in response to Thomas Boyd

Thomas

I didn't 'loose' my previews...... I had not misplaced them elsewhere and I was not getting the dotted outline syndrome that you get when Aperture cant find them...

As I said in my post... I was messing around in Aperture 3 with places and I had inadvertently left the 'pins' symbol for the images I had marked out in 'Places" visible in the search field.

So my previews for the selected project, had in fact not gone missing, but were not visible, as 'Places' only images were visible.... When I changed the search criteria, back to 'showing all'..... my project previews were again visible.

A simple error on my behalf as I had only just got Aperture 3 and had not used Places before. So I posted for the benefit of anyone else who made the same error.... I bet there were a few...... 😉

Your tutorial is excellent though for actual "lost" previews...

Gerry..

Aperture 3 missing previews

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