Aperture not creating previews - one reason

I've been investigating why Aperture is failing to create previews. In my system it will only create previews for a specific set of images and not matter what I do it's always the same images.
So I looked at the difference between the images it would create previews for and the image it would not. The difference I found was that the images which Aperture would not create previews for no longer had their import directories.
Aperture appears to work by creating these directories when you import the images. They are stored in the project you import into. Aperture stores the image previews in these directories so if they are missing Aperture appears to silently fail on creating the preview.
How I think I lost mine was that I imported a large number of images into a project and then moved them to other projects as I sorted through them. Aperture does NOT move the import directories to the new projects with the images.
I deleted the original project and because it still contained the import directories for the images, I can now no longer create previews for those images.
The only solution I can think of to fix this is to re-import all the images which have lost their import directories, this time being more careful to not delete the projects.
Does anyone have any ideas on ways that these directories (and the files within them) can be re-created (without importing) ?
ciao
Derek

What was happening to me was this:
a. import images into project (a).
b. Create a new empty project (b).
c. Move images from project (a) to project (b).
d. Delete project (a).
e. Open package contents of the Aperture library.
f. Check project (b) and there is no *.apimportgroup directory. Hence nowhere for Aperture to put the previews.
Currently I have exported all my images and am re-importing. Its the only way I can think of to re-create the *.apimportgroup directories.
Rule of thumb: if you intent to delete a project, check for *.apimportgroup directories first. I have not tried to manually copy them to other projects so I don't know if that would get around this.
ciao
Derek

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