Can renamed reference files be reconnected?

I think I may have shot myself in the foot, but I'll ask the question: I had begun editing referenced files in a project when I noticed there was a significant time skew between the two cameras that were used. I eventually used ExifTool to successfully tweak all of the internal dates but then renamed the files according to the capture date as is my norm. That of course disconnected the Aperture library references to the edited files.
I want to reconnect the Aperture file references to the renamed files, but the "Manage Referenced Files" doesn't seem to work as I think I'd like: It shows the disconnected images in the Aperture library, but then I can't seem to connect these to new file names. The "Reconnect" button is greyed out.
Am I hooped and have to go back to square one, or is there some reconnection procedure that I'm missing?
Thanks// Chris Freeborn

It may have been the EXIF tweaks that caused the problem. Aperture checksums the images, so if the checksum doesn't match, it could refuse to reconnect.
I experimented with changing the name of referenced files a long time ago, and Aperture had no problem consolidating and relocating them. However I didn't attempt to reconnect them.
This may help you recover the images:
http://www.bagelturf.com/aparticles/ref/refrec/index.html
To change times safely, try Timeature.

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Can't RENAME a file like Windows can?

Real easy. I just need to rename a file from this:
A2Capital.jpg
to this:
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I do this in Windows and of course every OS I have used since the 1990s at least. Why can't this be done in OS X 10.4.9?
I am on a network drive of a Windows Server, if that makes a difference. The error I always get is
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Oh, come on. This is an easy one, right?
It happens whether I click the filename or if I Show Info.
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OS X's filesystem, HFS+, is case-preserving, meaning
it stores the upper and lowercase characters of
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filesystem, MyFile, mYfILE, myfile, and MYFILE all
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reading if you want to learn more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparisonof_filesystem
s#fn_35
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case-preserving
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as Case-Sensitive. If you didn't reformat your disk
when you got your Mac, it's Case-Preserving, not
Case-Sensitive.
I see what you mean by case sensitive. I think Macs and Windows are similar in this regard. All that means is that if I type in a command to run, or I type a filename to launch, the OS is forgiving if I say "BLaH.JpG" for a file that is really "blah.JPG" -- if it's on the hard drive like that already.
You bet. But in both Mac and Windows it seems, I can rename the file to whatever mixed case I want and get no errors.
I only have this problem on the network drive,
which like I said is a Windows 2003 Server share.
Because your question is in the context of renaming a
file on a remote Windows share, then all the talk of
whether HFS is case-sensitive or not doesn't matter.
I'm assuming the share you're connected to when
trying to do this rename is NTFS? Macs use Samba to
connect to Windows shares. I've never tried to do
what you're doing through a samba share. It could be
Samba, or it could be how you have your share set up.
It does look like a Samba idiosyncrasy. I have used Samba before in FreeBSD (a relative to Darwin/OS X) but I would have no idea if that was the case there.
Samba has traditionally had some oddities, bugs, and problems due to the nature of open-sourcing a Windows custom secret network system. But Macs do claim to be interoperable with other networks and systems. This can't be unusual. Lots of people need to connect to a Windows share.
Ha, to be honest, I don't think I would even try to setup a NFS share on the Windows server, and there aren't any UNIX servers at this location.
Who heads up the Samba stuff for Mac OS?

Can I Batch Rename all files in a Project?

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--Phil Lundeen
CLAD
Message Edited by TurboPhil on 07-23-2008 09:08 AM

I wrote a cloner VI just before NI release LV 8.5 where they adde the ability to add a prefix when you do a Source Distribution. Try that.
Ben
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Last edited by phabulosa (2008-03-18 23:11:30)

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Okay let's say in one folder on my hard drive I have three RAW files: _DSC0001.NEF and _DSC0002.NEF and _DSC0003.NEF. Now let's say I have reformatted my memory card so my camera will once again start labeling new images with _DSC0001.NEF.
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What I have been doing is going into the new folder that holds the new three images and renaming them: so I change _DSC0001.NEF to _DSC0004.NEF and I change _DSC0002.NEF to _DSC0005.NEF and I change _DSC0003.NEF to _DSC_0006.NEF.
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Or am I doing this all wrong?
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I have a servlet, RenameFile, that receives audio file via HTTP Post and writes it to /tmp/recording.0002002B-0C0022BB-0001.1.20050622.073208.wav. Then it creates directories under /alert_messages directory based on the timing parameters that it get. Finally, it renames /tmp/recording.0002002B-0C0022BB-0001.1.20050622.073208.wav to /alert_messages/2005/06/22/22/00/79_0_200506222200_001.WAV. RenameFile runs fine when it runs by itself (ONLY one Tomcat, jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30, is running). However, RenameFile fails to rename the /tmp/recording.0002002B-0C0022BB-0001.1.20050622.073208.wav to /alert_messages/2005/06/22/22/00/79_0_200506222200_001.WAV when it runs in a Linux box that jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24 is also running. In this box, TWO versions of Tomcat are running at the same time. I set the /alert_messages directory with �chmod �R 777� and run jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30 as tomcat user. RenameFile fails the rename operation. But, it creates the /alert_messages/2005/06/22/22/00/ directories.
It seem like RenameFile can create directory but can�t create file in the /alert_messages directory when both version of tomcats are running at the same time.
Can it be due to both the jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30 and the jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24 versions are running at the same time in one Linux box?
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Anybody know if there's a way to export a Quick Time REFERENCE file (not a full Quick Time .mov)?
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