I have mistakenly saved some files to my aperture library

I generally save to a series of portable drives. but I imported a bunch of jobs by mistake to my aperture library and it has made the library file pretty huge.
is there a way to delete files that are mistakenly saved to the aperture library?
I've scoured the manual but can't seem to figure out how out to fix my mistake.
m

The easiest way to do this is to set up a Smart Album. When the Smart Settings appear click on the top right hand corner on the + sign, select "file status" and a file status line with a pull down menu item will appear at the bottom of the Smart Settings dialog window. You can then select to have managed files shown (those in your Aperture Library) or referenced shown (referenced files not in the library) or missing files. I have these albums always displayed in my Aperture library so I know what is referenced and what is not. Sometimes the import selects the Aperture library for reasons I don't know. If you want these albums at the top of the stack I insert a space before the name and name them either referenced, managed or missing. Then follow the prior post to relocate your master images. Hope this helps.

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