Remove images from library without deleting referenced files

Hi,
I cannot find solution: how do I remove images from Aperture library completely (all versions, etc), but keep the referenced master files? (all my images are kept outside aperture lib, as referenced masters).
If I delete all versions and projects, they go to Trash, and attempting to empty the Trash brings only two options: delete permanently and move to system Trash. But I do not want to touch the referenced masters in any way. Is there a way to keep them safe, while emptying Aperture of all references to those files?
Thanks.

If the originals are referenced when you empty the Aperture trash the confirm box will have a checkbox asking yf you also want to move the referenced originals to the system trash.
If you do not select this option the referenced originals are left where they are. If you of not see this option in the confirmation box then the originals in the Trash are not referenced.

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