How to reconnect masters that Aperture put in "Recovered folder"?

Is there an easy way to automatically reconnect masters to versions, thus keeping all the editing that was done on the versions? (I think each master-version pair has the same name... but I don't know if that could help.)

Reconnecting masters is easy, if the image versions are referenced, but if Aperture thinks the images are managed, then the usual "Locate Referenced File" does not work to reconnect them.

I found, however, that you can lift the adjustments from images, even if the image shows a missing master, so you might move the recovered images from the trash to there appropriate projects and lift and stamp the adjustments from the broken versions - but for 1000 versions that would be a lot of work. Hopefully not all of them have adjustments you need to save?

D.F. wrote:

Now I'm with a folder called "Recovered folder", including about 1000 masters that are not connected to their appropriate versions. In other words, the versions (JPEG previews) sit in their original project displaying the "missing master" badge, while all the masters are in the "Recovered folder"... (I only work with managed images — no external referenced images.)

Hi. We're going to have clear some things up first. You don't see an Image of a Master in Aperture unless you activate "View→Show Master Image". The Master is a file. All Images in Aperture show Versions. (Images that have had no adjustments made or metadata added have, in effect, a "null" Version. When you first duplicate a Version, it is called, appropriately, "Version 2". Note that there are commands "New Version from Master" and "Duplicate Version", but no command "New Master".)

Folders don't hold Images (Folders hold containers).

Previews in Aperture are just big thumbnails that Aperture uses for some specific tasks. I don't think your Previews have anything to do with your problem.

It sounds as though you have a Project with Images no longer connected to their Masters, and a Project with Images that have no adjustments applied, and that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the two sets of Images. Is that correct? {Paragraphed corrected.}

No promises this can be recovered, but knowing exactly what you have is the first step.

Also -- have you used Finder to access any of the files in your Aperture Library package?

Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger -- corrected bad error, made small addition, fixed punctuation.

Is your Aperture library by any chance on an external drive? And is that drive not formatted MacOS Extended? Then accented characters can very problematic. If so, backup your library and reformat the drive.

I'd really recommend to avoid national characters in the filenames, you still can use them in the version names and IPTC tags.