Missing photos in Aperture 3.1.3

I opened Aperture today to discover that all of my photos that are older than about 6 months are now missing from the library. The thumbnail/preview of missing photos show as an outline now. If I right click on a missing photo and select Show In Finder, I will see this error:
"The file (name) could not be found because the volume on whioch it resides is currently offline.
Volume: Macintosh HD"
It seems that iPhoto, with an older set of photos, is working normally still. This is a somewhat new iMac that was created from a Time Machine backup from a MacBook Pro. I haven't really changed anything and the photo library has always been on the same local HD.
Any ideas? Should I just go back to iPhoto?!

Well, it seems that I just found part of the answer here. The path to the files in my iPhoto library has changed somehow - perhaps due to an update.
/User/username/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals/... etc
...has changed to...
/User/username/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/... etc
File > Locate Referenced Files... will allow me to find and fix this but it seems like only one photo at a time. Is there a better way to do this?

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