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Relocating Masters from one ext. drive to another...

I am seeking some advice to Aperture (latest version):

So far the folder of my Master-files has been relocated to an external hard disk, Consequently, in the event of reediting my pictures, I shall have to connect the said hard disk, when/if I would like to get hold of the Masters. Lately I faced a problem with the said external harddisk, and thought that my pictures (MASTERS) were in a process of disappearing. Luckily it appeared that the failure was related to a defect power supply only. BUT, I don't dare going on with this hard drive any longer, being by the way rather old, and immediately I bought a new 1 TB Lacie disk to which I intend to "copy" my Masters. I have by now tried out various ways of moving those Masters from the defect external drive to the NEW external drive, thus pulling the respective folder with the Masters to it's new place - however, hopefully, WITHOUT losing the same folder/files on the partly defect external harddisk. I have already tried "migrations" and a lot of other" tricks" - also pointing with the cursor to the NEW drive - but in vain. To be even more precise: Aperture seems not to be able to find it's way (to "see") the Masters on the new external hard disk - but they ARE there.....I can see them on the new drive. Could a cloning from the defect ext. drive to the new ext. drive be a way of procedure? Or are there more "normal" ways to bring in practise.

Indeed I would be most grateful for any advice that may lead to a succesful detecting of the said masters in their new position, i.e. the new external harddrive. Thanks!

Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on May 5, 2011 4:56 AM

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May 5, 2011 9:16 PM in response to daisydiver

The previews are a reduced size representation of the versions. Not masters. They are used only to provide a quick monitor representation of the version. You can control the size of the previews.

However, they are not intended to be used as masters, and you'd have to get up to some trickery to do that. Even if you did, you'll be losing quality, since the previews are of reduced size and typically only large enough to look OK on a monitor.

If the image is "offline", then Aperture has temporarily lost contact with the master. You'll have to find it and reconnect it. If this condition only applies to recent images, then it seems that your recent imports have specified "referenced" images, not "managed" ones, and that they have been saved in a place that was later moved or deleted. Think about what you did differently at import time.

May 5, 2011 9:31 PM in response to John Kitchen

John,

Thank you very much. This sounds like a possibility. I will check it out when I get to my desktop in a few days 🙂

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May 6, 2011 12:55 AM in response to mamster37

Jade, you certainly deserve proper feedback...at 02:15 I managed to have Aperture obeying me in my ongoing efforts of moving, i.e. relocating the masters, from the one ext.drive to the other newly bought ext. drive, but don't ask me what in fact all of a sudden ended up the right way....I am indeed very happy for having finally succeeded. Thanks a lot for your valuable assistance, and have a nice weekend you, and all other contributors....

Relocating Masters from one ext. drive to another...