Delete original ONLY IF not used in a non-reject version

* I use only referenced masters *
Sometimes I'll shoot maybe 30 photos of a virtually identical scene with different settings and slightly different timing or lighting or focus.
Then I'll go back to the computer and edit a few of them into maybe 20 preliminary versions that may only use 12 of the original files.
This means I end up with a gig of superflous raw files, eating up space on my precious cramped SSD.
I can't tell them apart by sight and I want to get rid of originals that are used in only in a rejected version.
If I switch to just view rejects and delete originals and versions I lose the originals for versions I do want to keep.

What I need is a way to get Aperture to delete the raw files for which there are only rejected versions, or no versions at all (although then I don't know how Aperture would know about that raw file.)
Aperture has no smart rule to count the number of versions of an image . Try the following work-around:
Consolidate your rejected versions with "File > Consolidate" before you delete them. Now you can delete all rejected versions with "File > Delete Version ⌘⌫". When you delete the last remaining version the original raw file will be deleted as well. But as long as there is another version of the image the original file will be saved. When you are done with deleting rejected versions, you can use a smart search to find any remaining managed image and relocate it back to the folder outside.
Deleting images and getting rid of orphaned original image files is easier for managed images.
If you do not want to use the work-around to make the image managed before deleting versions, delete your versions only while browsing them in the project, sorted by filename. That will keep all versions side-by-side and you can see, if you are about to delete the last version. Or drag each version you want to delete to a new, empty project: When you move a version to a new project, all other versions will go along. You now will have a project containing only one image with all its versions. You should be able to see by the "rejected" badge, if you should delete using "delete version" or "all versions and the original".

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I was not complete clear.
Since you never changed the settings in the advanced section of iTunes preferecnes, you have to chech that your music is really in the location setted in the folders reported in the advanced section. If not you have 2 ways: reset the position of this folders or in the actual disk organisation or in the pointing on the preferences.
If you press the reset button you just give to itunes its default setting as for the position of the music files: probably this will be a good choice if you have never changed any default preference.
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