How can I get Aperture to find my lost Photos?

Hi
In a nutshell... I'm on my 3rd iMac (2 in the last 2 months have crashed) and it has data migrated from various backups (some corrupt!), so I have a fresh iMac, with a lump of data located in various places.
Now... Opening Aperture, all my old librarys give me a message along the lines of:
Consistencies dected, please repair.
OK. No matter what I do (repair, rebuild etc), nothing seems to get rid of the message, so I decided to grab what I can and export it to a NEW library.
This works fine now (as far as I can tell).
I have 3 libraries, the next one I came to - it only displayed 10ish photos in total. The rest of the photos were APPARENT however you can't view them - just a grey outline and the photo name - as the master is offline. I presume this stems from the data being moved around everywhere?
Now, SOME images show a grey outline, however when you double click on them - you can see them!
I understand why this has happened, due to the 3 or 4 times data has been moved about etc, but is there a way to get Aperture to find the images again? Without having to go through every single photo and re-import it. I also don't want to have to do ALL the adjustments again!
I've tried reprocessing/generating previews etc, but nothing.
Please help!
Thank you
Danny

Daniel, that looks like your Aperture Libraries are referenced libraries. When you imported your images into Aperture originally, did you select to store the images inside the Aperture library or in their original location?
If your library is referenced, then it is straight forward what needs to be done: You need to reconnect your edited image versions in the Aperture Library to the master image files. Do you know where the master image files are stored? Have you restored these images from the backup as well?
If you know where these images are, then you do the following:
Open one of your Aperture libraries.
Select a set of images that need reconnecting in the browser.
Select File -> Locate referenced File from the main menu bar.
In the panel that opens select an image that need reconnecting in the upper part of the window.
In the lower part point Aperture to the location of the master image file.
Now the reconnect buttons should appear. Press "Reconnect all"
Repeat for all Libraries and other all projects.
Good Luck.
Post back, if it does not work.
Léonie

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