fatman1977 Author

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Aperture 3 Missing Master Files

Hi all,

I wonder if anyone could help me on this one..

I seem to have lost concetivity to my master files in Aperture 3.

I think this has been since renaming earlyer today, I am now trying to export the images for use on my website and I get this message...

I guess I need to reconcect to the masters, but I have no idea how to do this, and everytime I try I seem to be lossing more files...?

Please help as this is a wedding shoot im working on

Kind regards

Chris

Aperture 3

Posted on Aug 21, 2012 5:45 AM

22 replies

fatman1977 Author

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Aug 21, 2012 12:30 PM in response to shuttersp33d

Spotlight cant see them sadly...

I do have time machine yes... I have also just bought disk drill

fatman1977 Author

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Aug 21, 2012 12:34 PM in response to Kirby Krieger

Yeah good point.. I used the "Batch Change" under "Meta Data" to rename the originals..

Thats why I thought I was safe within Aperture...

Aug 21, 2012 1:11 PM in response to fatman1977

You should have been -- that's why I asked. Still not clear to me what went wrong. You used "Batch Change" and you ticked the "Apply to original files" box? And then at what point did you get a warning, and what did the warning say?

What did you rename the files to?

Why did you then "Relocate Original"?

fatman1977 Author

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Aug 22, 2012 7:56 AM in response to Kirby Krieger

The orginal error message was "OSStatus Error-43"

I thought for some reason the files lost conection to the orginals.. I miss understod what "relocate" was going to do...

I have now run disk drill over night, but I still cant find the orignal RAWs, I am missing the first 50 from 450 images.. Very anoying

I cant use Time Machine as I discovered today that the libuary is on an external which was excluded in time machine preferanceces...

Any ideas guys??

léonie

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Aug 22, 2012 8:24 AM in response to fatman1977

"OSStatus Error-43" is a file or folder not found error - so your images were already missing, when you tried to rename them.

Have you run DiskDrill on the external drive, where the library resides, or on your System drive, to restore files on the Desktop? Have you already erased the card in the camera, or tried Disk Drill on the card?

fatman1977 Author

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Aug 22, 2012 9:06 AM in response to léonie

Yeah good point, they might have been missing first and ive thought it was my error..

The disk drill I ran lastnight was on the desktop as I was trying to recover what was in the trash, but I have now started another one on the external drive where the orginal libuary is..

I did try disk drill on the camera cards (x3) but sadly I have shot sveral jobs since so this was no good.

Thank you for all your help guys, very much apriceated

fatman1977 Author

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Aug 22, 2012 8:43 PM in response to fatman1977

It looks like I have managed to recover my missing RAW files via Disk Drill..

I scanned the LaCie External drive for the CR2 files deleated within the last 7 days and hey bingo..!

Still not too sure how this happened within Aperture in the first place, but hey, the job is recovered after all..

Thank you to everyone here that has helped and made suggestions, it's been very much appreciated

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