Lost Masters After Hard Drive Move ...

I took a copy of my Aperture Library and moved it from my boot drive to a new external 500 gig drive on my G5.

I did the same with iPhoto and had no problem re connecting to the original images.

Within Aperture I have my project structure intact, with all the thumbnails visible but only some of the images show connections to the originals.

I've tried relocate, consolidate and manage reference files, oh and Rebuild at start-up .. nothing worked.

To make matters worse one of these steps exploded out all 18,642 of my images onto the external hard drive. So now when I open Aperture and attempt an import it has to scan 18,642 images before I can touch the application again.

Does anyone have an answer for this or is this a pick and shovel job to get these 18K images back into each of their projects?

Ugh!!!!!

Thanks for any advice....

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