I have to locate masters upon every Aperture run

I have 2 macs and I have installed Aperture 3 on both of them. I have no issue with one, but on the other on Aperture startup I have to locate all the masters every time.
Both computers have local images, external to Aperture Library and once I relink the images I can continue to work normally. The necessity to relink all the masters everytime is very annoying and I'd like to understand why this happens: if this is an issue related to the installation itself or a "feature" that I haven't yet discovered and that I'd like to disable...
Let me try to answer to the obvious questions:
- Both my Macs are uptodate with OS and Aperture
- The masters images are always in the very same location
- File permissions should be OK
- Image's masters had been positioned in the filesystem on Import and never moved
- The problem doesn't happen when I switch projects, only on Aperture startup or when I switch from one Aperture Library to another
- When I locate the masters of one project, then the masters in other projects get located too
Anybody had the same problem? Thanks for helping.

Hello Léonie,
thanks again for your help. I have done all the test you have suggested, and here are my comments.
And your home-directory is on the system volume, or have you moved it to an external volume? is your home folder maybe on a file server?
Have you recently checked your harddrive? Use Didk Utility to check your system drive.
My home folder is local and on the internal HD. With some application I've had issues due to the fact my volume is encrypted with FileVault, but I don't think this is relevant with Aperture as also on the other computer I use FileVault, and Aperture works seamlessly.
You mean the moun/unmount button in the screenshot above?
This may happen, if Aperture notices, that the volume is online already.
Yes, that's exactly the button I was referring to. Don't you think it is a little strange that if Aperture notice the volume is already online, then it marks it as offline? Plus what I find inconsistent is that once you click on mount, nothing happens
You also have removed the Preferences, right?
Yes, of course
I still think their might be something wrong either with your Library or some settings in your User account, so that Aperture cannot store the correct status of the master files.
You could do two tests, to check that:
create a new, empty Aperture library for testing and import a few images; reference these. See if you have the same trouble with this new library.
If the new library works fine, then the problem is probably your old library.
I have created a new library, then I have imported few images, first inside Aperture's Library, and (of course) no issues in keeping files' location. Then I've tried to relocated the masters outside Aperture's Library and I've experiences the usual problem at startup
If also the new library does not work, try the same from a new user account. If you have the same trouble in different ,new account, then it is a system wide trouble, and either your hardware, your system, or Aperture needs fixing.
This test worked fine. After the creation of the library in the new account, the import of few images (this time directly as references masters), at Aperture restart everything was correctly referenced inside Aperture.
Then it might well be that Aperture installation needs fixing. Actually the weird behavior has always happened since the installation of Aperture. The computer having problems is relatively new, and I have installed Aperture there since no more than 45 days. I doubt there is a hardware issue, as I suppose I might have notices several other effects. The Disk Utility verify routine run smoothly and so far I haven't seen anything strange, outside Aperture.
If you find, that only your current library does not work, then try the last option and rebuild your library (rebuid database); but make sure you have a working backup, before you do that.
I'm using at least 4 different library and I'm experiencing the very same issue everywhere, consistently. One library is Aperture's default one, another one has been imported from the other computer, then one created as an export from the second Library and the latest one has been created from scratch by -double clicking on Aperture's icon.
At this point do you still think that a library rebuild might make any difference.
Since your masters are on the same volume as your Aperture library, you may also consider to consolidate the library temporarily after rebuilding it. This will move the master image files into your Aperture library and turn your library into a managed library, If this works, you can relocate the masters again to reference them later.
Once I'll have at least one working Library, no problem in moving all the file inside the main Library and then relocate them later on.
"Rebuild Database" cannot fix all corruptions. There are other options to recreate an Aperture library, but those are more involved, so we should stick with the routine procedure for now.
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