Copying part of Library intact from Package contents?

We have a problem with one of our disks in a 2006 Mac Pro and want to copy parts of the "package Contents" using Finder to allow import into Aperture using older Clone to restore new content into Aperture.
1) What content from the "Package" should I copy in order to then import (? how?) in order to preserve the work done on some of the images such as ratings and cropping etc...?
2) Notice that imgaes deleted in Aperture still remained in the Package contents. Is that because Aperture was not closed down properly before this incident happened or is this normal... keeping deleted images in the Package Content that have been deleted?
Many thanks for help with this!

Pretty much all the files/folders in the Aperture library are needed.
It's not clear from your post just want the problem is. If the disk is bad how is that you are able to copy some of the library but not the whole thing? You should copy as mush as you can and see where you are after that.
You could ditch the Previews and Thumbnails folders. Possibly the Aperture.aplib folder. A few others. But in order to import the remaining data into another library you need the old recovered data in a library that Aperture can open. You can't manually  merge the files into the other library.
You can try this: Create a new empty Library, then replace the Masters and Database folders in the new library with those folders from the old library, then start Aperture while holding down the option and  comand keys and run Rebuild. If the library opens after that you should be OK.
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