Copying my libraries using BASH cp broke the library bundles

Hi there,
I needed to move a huge amount of data in a couple of libraries around and doing that in Finder did not work, either the Mac crashed or Finder quit with errors. The libraries were OK, the filesystem was OK and so on. I ended up copying libraries from one filesystem to another using
cp -pPR foo /foobar/foo
The target filesystem was a share on a NAS device.
I noticed that the library bundle does not seem to be recognized as such anymore in Aperture, it won't open it although when I preselect it in the 'Switch Libraries' window, it correctly displays the number of masters and versions.
In Finder, that library now shows up as
foobar.aplibrary
Instead of just foobar.
Can someone explain what went wrong and how to fix it? With one of the smaller libraries, I managed to do this to fix it:
Create a new, empty library.
Copy the contents of the package folder of the broken library into the contents of the package folder of the new library, overwriting any files.
That worked for a small library. I'm trying for a huge library now, that takes ages to copy. So maybe can cut into this and just help me out with some advice?
thanks,
Tobias

See  Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library
Basically the Aperture library does not like being on a non OS X formated voulme.
The reason for the Finder nor ewcongnizing the library is most likely caused by the loss of the extended attributes that indicated theat the library was a package. If you do an ls -l on the library does the name end in a '@'? If not you definitly lost the extended attributes.
All in all messing wiht the Aperture library in the manner you did is not a good idea. As far as fixing it wihtout knowing the whole stoty that will be difficult.  You might want to just drop back to your backup and strart over. It will be a lot easier in the long run.
godd luck

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