The selected original image (video) is either offline or not found.

Derek,

what happens, when you select the video with the broken reference in the Browser and use the command to "File > Locate referenced file"?

In the "Referenced Files in Selection" window you should be able to see the path to the original file, where it should have been. Have you searched this folder?

Or is the problem, that Aperture does not allow to use the "File > Locate referenced file" and gives the error message "The selection does not have any referenced files".

In that case the original movie should be in your Aperture library, and you shoud look inside the folder with the date you imported your movie - the Aperture library "Masters" folder is organized according to "Import session". To see the "Import session" of a version, edit a metadata preset in the libaray inspector info panel to include the "Aperture > Import session" tag when you are viewing a version.

Regards

Léonie

How exactly did you do this Export?

Ernie

All I tried to do is export the video to desktop and it seems like aperture lost the whole file, leaving just a thumbnail

Did you accidentally use "relocate" instead of "export"?

How did you import the video? Are videos, that you imorted at the same time still o.k.?

I just tested with a video in my Aperture Library, both selecting Export/Version (preferred in my opinion) and Export/Original. In both cases a video file appeared on my Desktop, and did not disappear from the Project in the Aperture Library. But with the Original, it notified of some error with Metadata, but that still did not keep the file from playing in QT.

Ernie

But with the Original, it notified of some error with Metadata, but that still did not keep the file from playing in QT.

Exactly the same here, Ernie!

Can you find one of these videos in the Aperture library? The missing video should be in the same folder.

Hi DerekBrad,

Did you ever manage to recover your video file?

Exactly the same issue happened to me today and I really want to retrieve the movie that Aperture corrupted or lost during the export process.

Thx

Nooo!! ****. Same thing here as all you. Failed export resulted in completely lost file. I watched it disappear from teh database folder! The only place I can see a remnant of it is a preview file which plays a movie of all black for about the same length as the original once was.

Please someone tell me there's a way to retrieve the movie files. I'm panicing!

OS10.8.5 Aperture 3.4.5

Thank you.

If you know how to use terminal, use that. Set the current directory to the directory(folder) where the video was located and then use the 'ls' command to list the contents of the directory.

You might find your video still in there but hidden from finder.

If you don't know how to use Terminal, check my walkthrough towards the end of this thread. You only need to go as far as changing the current directory, and then type: ls (lowercase L) to list the directory contents. Make sure you check the whole directory because if the file has been hidden, it will have a slightly different name.

Andy