Image update - overwrighting master image - help

Dear All again,
This seems to be a problem day for me but I am hope some of you more professional developers can help me some more.
I have created an insert form where it also updates a 2 other tables. One table is for a image. This is all no automatically with a image named nologo.gif already stored on the server.
Then there is an update page where people can update their image.
When someone updates their image it overwrights the original "nologo.gif" file with the new one.
So them all the other profiles that use this image have a broken image link.
Does anyone know a way round this problem I have nodoubt caused myself?
Cheers again,
Joe

You have to save the name of the image in your database. Use ADDT file upload behaviour to upload the image and save the image name in a form.

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Below is a description of the gallery I want to build:
On the gallery page the gallery appears as a single 'Master Image' with forward and back 'Navs.' and a 'Counter' underneath this single 'Master Image'. Lets say that there are 10 images in this gallery. When the viewer clicks on the forward 'Nav.' the 'Master Image' changes to the next image in the sequence of 10 and the 'Counter' below confirms this progression, in this example the 'Counter' changes from 1 of 10 to read 2 of 10, the 'Master Image' displayed is the second image in the sequence.
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Can anyone explain how I can do this? Is it possible?
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Unavailable Master Images are present

Trying to relocate masters to an external drive using Aperture 2.1. Project with many albums which I am relocating to folders with the same name as the album on an external drive. Most of the albums I was able to relocate. There are 4 where I get the "unavailable master images cannot be relocated" message. When I select and image to show in finder, it shows its location on my internal drive. I have rebuilt the library and still get the same message. I have gone to Manage referenced files and located all the images in the bottom window then click reconnect all. Still get the same message about unavailable masters. What am I missing?

I am having the same problem. I had all my master images stored in one folder on an external 300gb hard drive. However, I noticed that in aperture, it said I had only 15,000 images while in the folder showed ~17,000 masters. What were these extra 2,000 images? I decided to try to separate these "unconnected" images from the real masters by relocating all my master images into another folder. All went well until I got the following warning:
"Unavailable master images cannot be relocated. The selected master image is either offline or not found. Please reconnect it and try again."
I was able to move most of the masters, but Aperture says I still have 3,009 masters in the original folder (which if I navigate to in the finder contains ~5,000 images). The strange thing is that if I right click on one of these images in aperture and select "show in finder" it finds them with no problem. It can't find them thought when trying to relocate.
I have tried rebuilding the aperture library, manually moving the images into another folder and then attempting to relocate, and copying the masters to another hard disk and linking aperture to those masters. All with the same result.
I am using Aperture 2.1.
Any help here would be great.

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