HELP ! Aperture is showing fuzzy previews after rebuilding a new computer

following a traumatic theft I have rebuilt my new mac and find aperture unusable as all my pictures in preview when looking at an event are dreadful and fuzzy, okay when you open but all the small pictures are very fuzzy. Making aperture unworkable
Can anyone help ?

Hi IWC, sorry to hear about your theft - good news that you're up and running again and still have your images!
Have you tried re-generating a preview to see if it fixes the fuzziness? If you haven't, try right clicking on an image, hold down alt/option and the "Update Preview" option near the bottom of the menu will change to "Generate Preview". If that fixes it, try re-generating the previews for your full library either by selecting them all or from the "Photos" menu.
Apologies if you've already tried that and it didn't work. If you haven't, hope it helps!
Cheers,
Colin

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