Aperture 2 or 3: delete unused masters?

I am upgrading my 2 library to import into version 3. Before doing that I want to clean up my old library by deleting unused masters from the library.In other words: I only want to retain those photos that I have placed into Albums. I can't figure out any way to do this other than export all the individual albums and then import the files into V. 3. I certainly don't want to take the time to do all that. It seems that leaving Aperture bloated with photos I don't want to use is very inefficient, never mind being a space hog.
Anyone got any solutions, in either version?
Thanks

Ian Wood's tool could help but a quick and dirty way in A2 would be to keyword photos that are in albums. A PIA but...
RB
Ps. Ap3 has a search by album criteria that you could use.

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