I forgot to create folders in my external HD before relocating my masters.

I forgot to create folders in my external HD before relocating my masters. I think I made a stupid mistake : I just clicked on aperture library and relocated the masters . Now my thousands of images are located on my external HD but they are not organized ( no folders no nothing!) In this case should I transfer my masters back to my macbook and then relocate them once again after making folders for each project?? ( one by one , project by project) I think it would be very time consuming to arrange them into folders on the external harddrive...Any suggestions???

Ok it was hard to tell from you're first post. It sounded like you wanted them referenced on the external drive.
So then to get them back into the Aperture library do as paulsalter suggested, use File->Consolidate Masters.
Re-reading your first post it really seems that you want to have the masters on the external drive as referenced. Is this not correct?

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Searching on the net, I found instructions on how to move the iTunes Music folder and how to change iPhoto default photos folder. I then moved the said folders and their contents to the external drive and created the aliases. Now when I try to delete the folders for their original location I get a message stating that "folders cannot be modified or deleted because they are required by Mac OS X". I know that I can delete these folders using terminal Unix commands but is this the correct approach?
Or should I go and create a new user account using as Home directory a folder located on the external drive? Or, alternatively, just change the existing user Home to one in the external drive?
I think my question is important and of general interest and I was really disappointed to find out that Apple has no documentation on this subject (or at least, I couldn't find any).

Lefteris59 wrote:
I have a 2008 iMac which hard disk (as you probably know) is not upgradable. After 16 months of use the disk became full so I bought an external firewire drive (1T LaCie d2). My plan is to move most folders located under /Users/username/ (the Documents, Downloads, Movies, Music and Pictures folders) to the external drive and replace them with aliases.
Searching on the net, I found instructions on how to move the iTunes Music folder and how to change iPhoto default photos folder. I then moved the said folders and their contents to the external drive and created the aliases. Now when I try to delete the folders for their original location I get a message stating that "folders cannot be modified or deleted because they are required by Mac OS X".
this happens because they are protected by "deny delete" ACLs.
I know that I can delete these folders using terminal Unix commands but is this the correct approach?
that's one way to do it. then you can move the folders to teh external and put symbolic links, *NOT aliases* in their original locations.
Or should I go and create a new user account using as Home directory a folder located on the external drive?
Or, alternatively, just change the existing user Home to one in the external drive?
that might be the easiest option. just copy the whole home folder to the external. then go to system preferences->accounts. unlock the lock at the bottom, control-click on your user and choose 'advanced options". in the popup change the location of the home directory to the external. then reboot and when you log in your home directory should be on the external. then you can trash the old home directory on the internal.
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Now I have multiple folders in my external hard drive and want to know how to condense all folders into yearly folders instead. Anyone know how to do this?

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I'm having a rather strange problem with Windows 7 RC. I've noticed that browsing folders is generally slower than in WinXP, but still acceptable. But lately I'm having a lot of difficulties moving files, creating folders, renaming folders and files, and even waiting for an Explorer window to refresh after some external app has created or modified a file. Sometimes I have to wait up to 30 seconds for a new folder to be created, and another 10 or 15 after I rename it (from "New Folder" to whatever else).
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Do NOT repeat NOT perform these steps unless youfully understand the ramifications and are prepared to live with the consequences.
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Kill the time and resource hog 'Indexing Services' - Plenty of advice on how to do that is available online.
DISALLOW Indexing on all volumes.
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Links to Folders on a external drive changed after reboot

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How can folders be created supporting multiple languages?
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Sorry, I don't understand what you mean there. Where are you spelling the names? In Terminal?
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Thank you so far.
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