Image off line

Have you tried the smart album to isolate those images, that need reconnecting?

Tried the smart album but it did not work?

What did not work exactly?

Did the album not populate with images, or did reconnect all not work for the images in the album?

Aperture will only reconnect all, if the images are exactly the same, same name, same size.

If Aperture does not recognize more originals, when you select one, there may be a problem with the filesystem. Is your external drive correctly formatted as MacOS Extended (Journaled)?

If the Smart album does not show the effected images. try a different "File status" rule and search for "Missing" as well.

morning, I am importing from a vault but don't have much hope. Do you know what may happen when the new photo comes and I still can't sort things out?

I don't see how a vault can help, since it does not backup any referenced images. It only backs up the Aperture Library.

If you really cannot reconnect the originals from your backup folder on the external drive, you can reimport them as a last ditch resort. But you would have to Lift&Stamp all edits and meta data from the current versions to the new imported originals. Reconnecting individually would be quicker.

Do you know what may happen when the new photo comes and I still can't sort things out?

The new Photos.app can open your Aperture library and create a Photos library from it. It will need to access the referenced originals and link them in the new library, also create new thumbnails and previews. You will have to fix your library before you migrate, or create a new one.

George,

have you looked at the Manual page that I linked to?

http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapter=5%26sec tion=16%26hash=apple_ref:doc:uid:Apertur…

It would be really much better if you could get the "reconnect" to work, than importing your original files again from the folder you saved to your external.

The problem is: If you reimport the original image files, you will have the photos exactly as you took them - no meat data, no adjustments.

What I meant by "Lift&Stamp":

The "Lift&Stamp" toll can copy adjustments and metadata from one image version to another.

Select an image, click the "Lift" up-arrow, select the adjustments you want to transfer in the "Lift&Stamp" HUD, then select the image version, where you want to add the lifted data and click the Stamp downarrow.

Like this:

You could use this to transfer your previous edits from the versions with missing originals to reimported originals and recreate the edited versions this way. But it would be only feasible for a few selected images that cannot be reconnected.

Try to get the "reconnect all" to work. I do not see, why it refuses to reconnect all. There must be something we are overlooking - that you did not mention and I cannot guess.