Aperture database is repaired but photos are demaged and database is a big mess

having tried everything - my 120GB Database is a mess many photos are broken with large gray fields or wrong colours. now I hate aperture and I am looking for an alternative

Thank you very much for helping me!
the drive is the main mac hd of my macmini which is osx formatted and seems to be ok
the database is (or should be) managed - I hooked the "store in aperture library" checkmark
the corruption I mean is that the master files do not show the metadata anymore (unknown camera), some of the images are covered with a gray bar, some show magenta like colours, and worst of all they are in wrong folders or missing anyway. Pictures from 2002 are in the 2010 folder ans similar.
I have a backup in the cloud which is hree weeks old I hope I can find something there
I am now trying to find all pictures on my different harddisks and sort them like I did years ago on my pc in files with year/month/ structure. I will do the same in the future with all my masterfiles and let them back up in the cloud. Do you know a importing tool which gives names in the above mentioned structure to any file imported?
thank you very much!

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