Aperture - How to find library images

Hello
I'm using Aperture on my macbook pro with mavericks OS.
I have a managed system where I have most images on an external drive and only small thumbnails in the "ApertureLibrary.aplibrary" file. This works very well for me.
BUT there have been times where I have not brought my external drive and when importing pictures they have been stored locally in the aperturelibrary.aplibrary file instead of my external drive. Now it's time to sort out what files are not stored on my external drive and relocate the original files from the local file (aperturelibrary.aplibrary) to the external drive. Question: How do I find the files that are stored locally only. I have 60.000 images and going over all of them would take forever.
Summing up: I need to find a way to only find images that have their original files sotred in the aperturelibrary.aplibrary file and relocate these original images to my external drive.
Thanks

thanks for the reply. I have a huge folder structure and I need to keep the same structure on the external drive which means I have to create the folders on the external drive before relocating the images? or am I wrong?
One image might be in the aperture library folder:
- 2013
     - September
          - Party
Then I will create the same folder-path on the external drive and choose reloacte originals in that folder to the folder on the external drive. I believe I have to do this for each folder that have managed images.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The attetched drive shows some of the folder structure in Aperture and I have created the same folder structure on the external drive.

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