Aperture thinks missing images are duplicates

I am running Aperture 3.4.3 on Mountain Lion on a 17" Macbook Pro.
Aperture crashed while importing pictures from an SD card. When I try to start the import again I have the following problems:
    When 'Do not import duplicates' is checked. It will not list the pictures that previously attempted an import but are not in the library.
    When 'Do not import duplicates' is unchecked, I see all the pictures on the card (including those that are missing).
    I do not want to import all pictures and then go through the library to figure out which ones are copies and manually remove them. There are hundreds of pictures on the card.
    I have tried holding command-option and have rebuilt both the database and the library. This does not change anything.
    Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

I have tried holding command-option and have rebuilt both the database and the library. This does not change anything.
The partially imported images must be somewhere in the Aperture library. Have you looked into the Aperture Trash or checked if they are somewhere in a "Recovered Project"?

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I have several hundred "missing" files in my iTunes library but they are all actually on the computer. But I don't remember where the were previously. I add dozens of songs at a time to my library all the time and there is no Earthly way for me to constantly remember where they were before. I don't just want to reimport the files because I have several hundred playlists with these files and it would be completely stupid to edit them all one at a time when all I need to do is to move them back to where iTunes thinks they should be. So where is that? The Windows media player has a column that displays file location. Why doesn't iTunes? (This is so stupid. It makes things -not just this- so much easier when you have the file location in the music list in your music player.)
Is there a way to find out where iTunes thinks the missing files should be at?

Chris CA wrote:
How do I find out where iTunes thinks missing files are?
The exclamation mark means ITunes doesn't think they are anywhere.
If you right click - get info on a song then view the Info tab, you will see where iTunes last used it from.
I'm not a newbie. I know quite a lot about iTunes. You sound like you don't though because if you did you would know that this is not true. If you "right click - get info on a song" (pressing cancel to the Locate popup) "then view the SUMMARY (not info) tab" you will see "Not Available" where the file location usually is. I wouldn't have asked this question if I hadn't gone through the steps already.
Thanks for trying though. Next time, please try the advice before you give it.
I add dozens of songs at a time to my library all the time and there is no Earthly way for me to constantly remember where they were before
You should not have to remember anything about where they were.
I agree.
Are you always moving them around?
When I install a new hard drive. Yes. I generally keep everything organized and I let iTunes keep the folder organized but several years ago I used windows media player to organize my media.
Frankly I don't know HOW the recent songs/videos/etc. go missing. But some do. Maybe I accidentally move a folder without realizing it. Mistakes happen. Then I need to move it back but since I didn't know I did it in the first place I can't possibly be expected to remember where I moved it from.
Do you have iTunes prefs -> Advanced Keep ITunes music folder organized ticked and Copy files to iTunes ... ticked?
*OF COURSE!* Again, I'm not a newbie.
I have several hundred playlists with these files
Why would you have several hundred playlists?
I don't mean to sound rude but you sound like an Apple fanboy. Are you trying to tell me how I should use my own program? The answer to the question is I am a salsa instructor/DJ and I am constantly adding songs and videos to my library. Every month I have various salsa events, classes and performances that I do. I use my iPhone for the music. I need to maintain the playlists because students/teachers/studios/clubs/bars/churches/etc. call me back and want a repeat of the great salsa night I gave them a year ago. Naturally my playlists are highly organized into folders. So, I still have them and I need them.
Apple has its own ideas about how people should use its stuff but everyone is unique and our needs therefore are unique too. Apple doesn't realize this and still wants us to do things "the Apple way" even though "the Apple way" only works well for people who want their hand held through everything. This is why I say you sound like a fanboy. You don't know my situation and question if I need hundreds of playlists. I do.
I just need an answer to the question.
Thank you for your reply though. It gave me hope, for a time.

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Thanks for the replies (in triplicate! from grommet). More information:
REFERENCED images that were imported earlier (using Aperture v1.5.x) show up ON-LINE in Aperture 2 (i.e., all is OK with the earlier images; referenced image badge has no red strike-thru).
The images that were imported more recently--all with Aperture 2--continue to show the referenced image badge with the red strike-thru, indicating Aperture thinks they're OFF-LINE (even though they're not). This makes it impossible to edit or use any of the more recent images that were imported with Aperture 2.
Here's the kicker: the more recent images imported with Aperture 2 and indicated as being OFF-LINE are stored in the SAME general file location as the earlier images that were imported with Aperture v1.5.x and are indicated as being ON-LINE!
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Aperture Library is at: ~/Pictures/
Earlier images are at: ~/Pictures/Digital Photos/Roll-000001/1999-05-26-0001.NEF
Recent images are at: ~/Pictures/Digital Photos/Roll-000107/2008-04-17-0001.NEF
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No luck on the smart album, I tried it and it reports no missing images:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/24218107220895a27c5fo.png
I also tried the opposite and searched for online images and got 556, the correct number.
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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2107/242099628501416543c1o.png
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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/242099643102bbf57fbfo.png
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I came here looking for a solution to trying to manage photos on my mbp and desktop mac.
I do the heavy lifting of my Photo Library, including keywording on the desktop which was a G5 PowerMac with aperture 2 and had a 12" G4 Powerbook which i took out with me to store images on the road. SInce the G4 would not run Aperture I just transfered raw images over to the mac when home. Since then I upgraded the PB to a 13" MBP and upgraded it to Aperture 3 so with no sync i basically just loaded the images into the mbp and did some processing there and transferred most raw masters over to the G5 when home. Due to the recent large scale abandoning of the G5 in Apple software upgrades I have moved over to a Intel Mac Pro for the desktop and so both mahcines are now on Aperture 5.
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ChristopherDavid wrote:
I've had this happen too unfortunately. I'm not sure if this fix will work for you or even if you have tried it yet: Try force-reconnecting your masters. You may have to do this individually for a large lot of files or you may get lucky and the entire lot will reconnect with one attempt. My experience with this though is that the fix does not hold. Meaning, an computer restart, or a data base rebuild miffs it all up again.
I've just run into this problem too. I'm only dealing with about 250 problem images out of about 15,000, so I feel lucky compared to some of the other participants in this thread.
I'm not clear on what you mean by force-reconnecting. Can you remind me what this entails?
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