Aperture lost images

Hi, I have 6500 managed image files in Aperture. The vault contains 89GB and is stored on a mirrored Raid. After exporting all the versions from Aperture to two new portable hard drives I've been warned on both occasions that a number of different files have not copied.
After the first time this happened I re-imported the missing files to Aperture. Now other files are missing.
When I've checked in Aperture the missing files have previews greyed out, but all the file info is still readable. Do you think this is an Aperture problem and what could be causing it, or could it be a Raid problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tim

Tim, remove the preferences, when you launch a new one will be created.
Do a finder level search for ".aplibrary" this will find all of the Aperture libraries on your system. Go through and confirm that you only have the two libraries on your system.
Tim it is sounding like the 99GB library on the RAID your with your vaults is the one you are looking for, if the search confirms this, double click on this library file, it will launch aperture for you. Alternatively hold the "option" key down when launching Aperture from the dock, this will bring up an option to either choose a library or create a new library, choose a library and navigate to the library on the raid.
Once you have got it open and confirmed that this is your working library, you have some thinking to do. The idea of the vault is to be a back up of your library in case something should go wrong, library corrupt OR hard-drive fail. The library and vault MUST be on separate MACOS formatted drives, and having two vaults is great, but again they must be on separate drives and idealy one of these should be stored off site.
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