Lost Masters/New User question

I have about 50 pictures in a project and aperture is telling me I can't do anything with them because the Masters can't be located. I've tried file>relocate masters and file>manage referenced file to no avail.
When I searched here for answers I found reference to Text Wrangler, but that seemed way over the top and confusing to me.
Is there anything fairly simple that I can do to export these files,or are they just totally useless at this point?

Hmmm.
With that name (that's an Aperture name and not the default Nikon name), it sounds like you told Aperture to use referenced files, specified a place it should put them, specified the desktop, and then later moved or deleted the files. And you're using previews so you can see "offline" images in Aperture but they're not actually there and you can't edit them.
Sound familiar?
Hopefully you moved them and didn't delete them. Because if you tell it to put the files somewhere and later delete them... that's trouble.

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