Aperture Library movement

I need to move my Aperture library to another internal drive due to space considerations. Looked over this forum. I did move the library and redirect Aperture, rebooted, but I see that all the raw files of "projects" are still in my Pictures part of operating system drive - same as original Aperture library. And that's what most of the file space is used up by -raws. When I move these to the new library, they do not seem accessible - I get the warning icon which i think means i'm only seeing a thumbnail.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Robert
www.robertholland.com

HI Robert
you need to brush up on the difference between the two workflows, managed and referenced, see
http://www.apple.com/au/aperture/tutorials/
http://photo.rwboyer.com/
At this stage you are wanting to either "Relocate Masters for Project" or "Consolidate Masters for Project".
One moves the files and they remain referenced, the other will bring the files into a managed environment within your Aperture library.
Tony

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