Cannot buy photobook in Aperture: Unavailable images detected in book.

Reconnect, yes! You have a referenced Master/Original involved, and it is needed for full resolution.

Ernie

Where is the folder with the original images, that Aperture cannot find? Is this folder on an external disk, and is this disk connected to your Mac and mounted?

Sometimes Aperture loses the connection to the referenced original images and you have to reconnect them, see this section of the User Manual:

Reconnecting Missing or Offline Referenced Images

http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapter=5%26sec tion=16%26hash=apple_ref:doc:uid:Aperture-UserManual-91292BSR-1037600

Basically you have to do the following:

• Select the images with the missing originals in the browser,
• Use the command "File > Locate Referenced Files".
• In the upper part of the panel that opens select one of the images.
• In the lower part select the folder with missing original image and select the original.
• Now the "Reconnect" buttons should become active. Press "Reconnect all".

Aperture should now be able to access the missing originals.

If this does not succeed post back with more information on the location where you are storing the originals - the kind of disk, filesystem, how it is connected.

Regards

Léonie

I would think that after it reconnects them it would remove it from the upper panel but it does not.

If you see the reconnect button, then all should be well. The files in the upper panel will only vanish, if you check the "Show only Files Not Found" button. Have you tried that?

And when you match the selection in the upper and lower panel, both selected files should show the same preview.

Then it may help to check, if your referenced image files are now properly connected. You could use a smart filter for that:

• Select the "Photos" view.
• Then click ⌘F (or the looking glas icn besides the Browser search field) to bring up the smart settings.
• Click "Add Rule" and add a file status rule. "File status is missing" of "File status is offline".

Does any of these rules show images you used in your book?

If there are still images shown, do they have arrow badges with warning icons?

But when I clicked done and went back to my book, I got the same original error message. It seems like I am doing all the right things but it just isn't connecting.

You may be connecting to the wrong images. What happens, when you toggle between original master and version? Select one of the images that do not work and press "M" to reveal the master. Is it the correct master? And what is the pixelsize of the images? Do the have enough pixels? Perhaps it is only one image, that has too low a resolution.

• Have you created a preview of the book and looked critically al all images to see, if you have a low resolution? See: Previewing an order in iPhoto or Aperture
• Are any of the images in the book marked with yellow tringle badges?
  See: iPhoto & Aperture: Warning icon when ordering photo products

Regards

Léonie

Each image is 51XX x 34XX (17.9MB)

The images are rather large. Are they raw images? This looks like Aperture is not able open the original master image files to render the book, even if they are properly connected. Check if Aperture can open your raw at all:

Select the images in question and reprocess the raw.

From the "Photos" menu: Photos > Reprocess original

Something must be preventing the access to your original files. Have you checked the permissions on that folder? Do you have read/write access? Can it be, that you have turned on "File vault" for your Home Folder in the "Security & Privacy" settings, and your home folder is encrypted?

@Ernie Stamper, do you have any suggestions? Frankly, I am puzzled and running out of ideas.