Markus - enthusiastic amateur
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Q: Unable to reconnect referenced masters

Apperture does not find my hard (boot) drive even though it is there as you can see in the attached picture. The connection was lost when I acessed the library from an other computor. Everything went well except quiting the external connection. I had to force Apperture to stop.

 

The hard drive is marked Offline in status even though apperture sees it for importing new pictures. How could I make Apperture see the drive again?

 

This is a major problem for me since I have some 10.000 referenced pictures. They cannot be located one by one. I have made enourmous job in retouching the pictures and it would be catastrofy to loose that work. Could any one please help me?

 

Best regards, Markus

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Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jan 29, 2012 8:12 AM

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Q: Unable to reconnect referenced masters

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  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Jan 29, 2012 8:23 AM in response to Markus - enthusiastic amateur
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    Jan 29, 2012 8:23 AM in response to Markus - enthusiastic amateur

    Markus,

    have you tried the first aid? The remote access may have corrupted your Aperture Library.

    Try the permission repair, and if necessary, the Library repair as described here:

         Troubleshooting Basics: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805

     

    Post back, if this does not help.

     

    Remote access to your library is extremely risky: Aperture is not designed as a network shared library:

     

    Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library:http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3252

     

     

    Regards

    Léonie

  • by Markus - enthusiastic amateur,

    Markus - enthusiastic amateur Markus - enthusiastic amateur Jan 29, 2012 9:22 AM in response to léonie
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    Jan 29, 2012 9:22 AM in response to léonie

    Many thanks for the tip. Unfortunately it did not help. I run all the three options of first aid up till rebuilding the database. The hard drive remains Offline for Apperture.

     

    I can reconnect single pictures but I have not figured out how to reconnect all of them at the same time.

     

    Best regards, Markus

  • by Kirby Krieger,

    Kirby Krieger Kirby Krieger Jan 29, 2012 9:30 AM in response to Markus - enthusiastic amateur
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    Jan 29, 2012 9:30 AM in response to Markus - enthusiastic amateur

    Marcus -- Air darts:

    - run Disk Utility's Repair on the drive, and reboot.

    - trash your Aperture prefs, as described on the Trouble-shooting page.

    - go ahead of rebuild the Aperture Library as described on the Trouble-shooting page.

     

    How are you able to find an individual file when the drive shows as off-line?

  • by Markus - enthusiastic amateur,

    Markus - enthusiastic amateur Markus - enthusiastic amateur Jan 29, 2012 11:32 AM in response to Kirby Krieger
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    Jan 29, 2012 11:32 AM in response to Kirby Krieger

    I restored an earlier version from time machine. This works - great!

     

    For some odd reason Apperture accessed the hard drive but did not connect the pictures automatically. It was possible to connect them individually though. Luckily there is time machine.

     

    It is a pity that Apperture library cannot be accessed from two computers. Now I know it, thanks for the support.

     

    Best regards, Markus

  • by Kirby Krieger,

    Kirby Krieger Kirby Krieger Jan 29, 2012 11:53 AM in response to Markus - enthusiastic amateur
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    Jan 29, 2012 11:53 AM in response to Markus - enthusiastic amateur

    Markus - enthusiastic amateur wrote:

    It is a pity that Apperture library cannot be accessed from two computers. Now I know it, thanks for the support.

    Marcus -- glad you're back on your feet.  Image databases (DAMs) that can be shared are expensive.  A new one was just announced -- at a special low introductory price of 1,121 USD for a five-seat license.