Aperture database help

My external hard drive was crashed & recoverd by geek squad. Now seems like I cant restore my database library. And i didnt setup any vault in prior.
Tried all other methods.
THX

msehhar wrote:
My external hard drive was crashed & recoverd by geek squad. Now seems like I cant restore my database library. And i didnt setup any vault in prior.
Tried all other methods.
THX
When you say crashed & recovered does that mean that you still have the same drive or was the crashed drive replace?

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