Moving a cloned Aperture library

I recently cloned my iMac's hard drive with SuperDuper to an external drive before doing a Time Machine restore of my entire iMac drive. The restore went fine but I forgot that Time Machine doesn't back up my Aperture 3 library (I understand TM backups while Aperture is open can cause problems). So the TM restore wiped out my Ap library.
I tried to copy the cloned Ap library on the external drive back to the main drive but mid-way I get a permissions problem. I'm sure this issue is caused by cloning, but I'm not sure how to solve it. I tried changing the permissions inside the Aperture lib folders but to no avail. I do have a vault that's about a week old that I can use to restore, but I'd rather use the cloned version if possible since it's current. Alternatively, I am able to open the cloned library; I suppose I could export all the projects into a new library on my main drive, but it's a big library (16gb or so, referenced) and I think it will take forever. Would it be faster to make a vault from the cloned library and do a restore on my main drive (something I've never done)? Or is there some straightforward way to copy my cloned library back to my main drive?

Hi Chez
The following might work for you...
1) Right-click on the cloned Library file on your external drive.
2) Choose Compress "Aperture Library". This will produce a compressed version of the Library in a zip file.
(I did this on my iMac at the weekend before carrying out my Aperture 3.1 upgrade. Just under 6000 referenced images have my ApLib file at 8.8GB. The zipped file is 6.5 GB and took somewhere between 45 minutes to an hour to complete compressing. Your iMac has a more powerful processor, but your library file is a bit bigger. You're probably looking at about an hour to an hour and a half. NB you'll require enough free space on your external drive to accomodate the new compressed file, which will probably be about 12GB or so, if mine was anything to go by. Ideally you'll have a lot more free.)
3) Drag the zip file back over to your Pictures folder. (This should go a heck of a lot faster than dragging the library itself ever would. That's because you'll be dragging a single huge file, rather than a hundred thousand small files - there's less overhead.)
4) Rename your broken Library file. (You might just want to keep it around until you're back up and running again.)
5) Double-click the zip file - it will decompress and create a replacement "Aperture Library" file. (That's why you rename the old one.)
6) Launch Aperture and run the maintenance described below. You'll definitely want to repair Permissions on the library - and that might be enough to solve your problems. If not, step up to the Repair Database step. If that's not enough, go the whole way and try the Rebuild Database.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805
All being well, you'll be back up and running after that. All told, you're probably talking about a couple of hours - and much of that is just kicking things off and letting them run in the background. If you follow these steps and it fails, you'll still have your cloned copy intact on the external drive.
Good luck!

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Managing a cloned Aperture library

Hello all,
I'm working with a referenced library system on my laptop and I make incremental backups of my OS using Carbon Copy Cloner.
I have just realised that the cloned libraries are copying all the new info but do not take account of deletions I have done in Aperture i.e. they are much bigger than the library on my laptop.
I always plan to have all my projects in the Aperture library. From time to time I will relocate referenced images on my internal HD to one of the externals so as to free up space. But that is the only deleting I would do. If I ever want to remove a project then I would export it and save this exported project to both of my externals.
Bearing in mind the above, is there any danger if I change the cloning options of the library to 'delete any items which do not exist on the source'?
Ross

Hi Chez
The following might work for you...
1) Right-click on the cloned Library file on your external drive.
2) Choose Compress "Aperture Library". This will produce a compressed version of the Library in a zip file.
(I did this on my iMac at the weekend before carrying out my Aperture 3.1 upgrade. Just under 6000 referenced images have my ApLib file at 8.8GB. The zipped file is 6.5 GB and took somewhere between 45 minutes to an hour to complete compressing. Your iMac has a more powerful processor, but your library file is a bit bigger. You're probably looking at about an hour to an hour and a half. NB you'll require enough free space on your external drive to accomodate the new compressed file, which will probably be about 12GB or so, if mine was anything to go by. Ideally you'll have a lot more free.)
3) Drag the zip file back over to your Pictures folder. (This should go a heck of a lot faster than dragging the library itself ever would. That's because you'll be dragging a single huge file, rather than a hundred thousand small files - there's less overhead.)
4) Rename your broken Library file. (You might just want to keep it around until you're back up and running again.)
5) Double-click the zip file - it will decompress and create a replacement "Aperture Library" file. (That's why you rename the old one.)
6) Launch Aperture and run the maintenance described below. You'll definitely want to repair Permissions on the library - and that might be enough to solve your problems. If not, step up to the Repair Database step. If that's not enough, go the whole way and try the Rebuild Database.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805
All being well, you'll be back up and running after that. All told, you're probably talking about a couple of hours - and much of that is just kicking things off and letting them run in the background. If you follow these steps and it fails, you'll still have your cloned copy intact on the external drive.
Good luck!

Hi there, My Hard Disk space on the Mac Book is running low, I found about 105gigs in Back Ups, after I moved my ballooning Aperture Library to an external hard disk. Can you help?

Just checked on Lion - somehow I have over 100gigs in Back Ups, but much less in pictures. I moved Itunes, Aperture Libraries to my external hard Disk. Still running low on the 250 gigs space. Any tips on how I can free this are much appreciated!
Thanks!

Did you actually move / delete the data on your HDD?
When you click and drag to an external drive, it automatically copies instead of moves.
What are these backups & their location?
You could try and app similar to WhatSize.

Aperture Library on External USB disk

Hello
My internal, 250GB disk on my iMac is almost full.
Are there any performance / reliability issues I should be aware of of moving my 50GB aperture library to an external USB disk ??
I don't use time machine to back it up - just the aperture vaults. I would probably back it up to a second external USB drive.
Any help much appreciated.
Andrew

USB2 is a poor connectivity method for hard drives on Macs, adequate for backup where speed is unimportant but bad news for a Library. Aperture performance is largely about the Library, so you want it on a relatively unfilled internal drive, definitely not on an external USB drive.
Hard drives slow as they fill above 40% or so. Take enough data off the internal drive to maintain at least 100 GB free space and keep the Aperture Library on the internal drive with Referenced Masters on external drives.
In the future buy large hard drives (currently the 1 TB size is cost effective) that have multiple connectivity methods that include Firewire800 and eSATA. One good source is OWC: <http://www.owcomputing.com/>.
Good luck!
-Allen Wicks

I've moved my Aperture library to another computer, and masters are referencing an old path name. How can I update these references? Reloctating masters does not work in this case :(

I've moved my Aperture library from one computer to another using Finder.
I merged the library with one which was already on the computer.
Now, the photos I imported have reference to the old path name on my old computer.
How can I update these references as "Relocate Masters" does not work in this case?

Just one suggestion to be able to reconnect all at once:
Create a smart album containing the images with missing masters:
File -> New -> Smart Album, and add a rule: File Status is "Missing" (or File Status is "offline")
Then select the images in this album and go to the File menu:
and select: File -> Locate referenced File
If you are lucky, Aperture will reconnect all at once, if you point the first image version to its counterpart.

Moving images from one library to another; or how to have 2 libraries open at the same time in Aperture 2

This may be something easy but for some reason I am having a hard time figuring this out. Basically this is the situation: I have a library on my MBP hd that I import pictures to when I am not hooked up to my external hd for the time being. The main library is of course on the external 2tb drive. How do I have 2 libraries open so that I can essentially drag and drop the pictures from one library to another? It would basically be like moving files from one project to another. Thanks for any help!

Always keep a backup of your original images, before you delete them. I make a backup right form the card, before I even import them to Aperture.
How are your images stored right now? Are the referenced or managed? On your big volume I'd consolidate the newly imported images, to be sure they are really inside the Aperture library before I delete any images outside the library.
but they have the little yellow triangle caution symbol on them and I can see them but not really edit them
That is a very typical problem, when you imported your images as referenced images then somehow delete or move the original master image files, that are stored outside the Aperture library.
Do you still have the original masters of the images with the yellow triangle that you cannot edit? In Aperture 3 you can point Aperture to the location of the master image file "File >Locate referenced image" - probably Aperture 2 has a similar command to let you reconnect your masters, if you still have them. Look into the manual.

I recently moved my Aperture Library file to an external hard drive. Can I now create a vault to be saved on my Time Capsule for the Aperture library on this external hard drive?

I recently moved my Aperture Library file to an external hard drive. Can I now create a vault to be saved on my Time Capsule for the Aperture library on this external hard drive?

One thing to bear in mind, if you are using Time Machine on your Time Capsule and have it set so the TM backup includes your external drive, you will effectively be backing up your Aperture library twice on the same drive, once with Time Machine and once with the vault. This isn't a problem unless you start to run out of space.
Another thing to note, vaults on network drives used to be flaky (i.e. not really supported) and required workarounds to be able to use them. I'm not sure if this has changed, but I just managed to create a vault on my TC ok.

Can I slim down the size of the Aperture Library by moving the Preview files elsewhere?

Hi all,
I have an Aperture library of almost 20,000 photos, dating back to around 2007. Almost all the master images are stored on an external drive (backed up of course), with only my recent and 'in progress' masters being stored in the library itself. Previously I have had my library split up into one library for each year, with the older years libraries being stored on the external drive where the masters are, in order to keep the size of my 'current' library down. So my current library, stored on my internal SSD, contained only photos from this year and last year, and only a few of the masters for these images. Confusing? Sorry!
Now, I recently decided to consolidate the libraries into one huge library, because it was annoying to have to switch between libraries to find older photos when I wanted them. I did this, leaving all but the recent masters on the external drives (referenced). I thought that the size of the main library would remain reasonably sized, since there were no extra masters being moved into it. However, the library has grown massively - up to over 70GB, which is huge when you consider it's on a 128GB SSD which is also my startup drive.
I'm pretty certain the reason for the huge size increase is that the Previews for all the older images are stored in the Library file, rather than anywhere else. This makes sense - they are previews, they're supposed to be able to be viewed with the external drives disconnected. So my question is this. Am I able to change the location of the preview files to be on my OTHER internal hard drive (non-SSD, much larger), so that they're still available without the external drives, but are not cluttering up my startup drive. And, if not, what should I do!?
Thanks a lot

Glad it worked, but permit, if you will, some observations:
-- Bloated Previews are a known Aperture bug, which came and went within a few updates in Aperture 3. Getting them back to the proper size is simply a elegant step to take.
-- A Preview set to your largest screen size and a quality of 6-8 should be all but indistinguishable from the Master at 72-100 dpi screen image. (Not print resolution.) I REALLY doubt you are going to loose any quality.
-- While using a symlink to stick the Previews on a HD is clever, it may also defeat the whole purpose of using your SSD. Previews are read a lot and are, I suspect, used for all adjustments at less than full resolution. (N.B. I could be VERY wrong on this.) Thus, depending on the amount of RAM on your Mac, you could end up reading and rereading your Previews over a slower link and doing this a lot. You own use will quickly determine if this is an issue or not.
I have blathered on, at length, about what I think matters for size and speed here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17959625#17959625. Some of this may be of use.
I went through a lot of these issues when I tried to fit everything on a 128 GB SSD, so I know some of the issues you are facing. As I noted before, you really only need a Library (minus most Masters) of about 30 GB and that is with large, high quality Previews.
I actually took the SSD out and stuck it in an ancient MacBookPro (in preparation for a trip to Blighty this summer) and have not noticed a huge drop in Aperture speed. (I do miss the speed of applications launch, restart, however.) One thing that I did find that made a small, but nice difference, was keeping all of the Masters on a separate, dedicated drive. Once defragged, etc. that was very fast. Don't know if you could achieve the same results by partitioning a larger drive, but it might well be fun to find out.
DiploStrat

How do I create a new Aperture library from pictures I moved from IMAC?

I moved my Photos to External Hard drive from MAC . Can I create new aperture library in EHD?

As I wrote as long as both programs are latest versions they share the same library structure and can open each others libraries.
Open Aperture and then select File->Switch to Library. If the iPhoto library shows up in the list select it. If it does not select Other/New… If the iphoto library shows up in this list select it if not select Other Library and find, select and open the iPhoto library.
At this point there are a few things you can do depending on your situation. You can just leave the library as is if you do most of your work in iPhoto. Or you can turn the this library into an Aperture library.
To make it an Aperture library open Aperture and create a new empty library as you did before. Now go to File->Import->Library and select the iPhoto library. The iPhoto library will be imported and converted to an Aperture library.
While all of thsi is safe you the iPhoto library it is alwasy a good idea to have a bakup of the library before starting just in case.
regards

Aperture - iphoto link broken after moving Aperture Library

Dear all,
I just moved my Aperture library as I ran out of space. I used the iphoto 11 to Aperture link ... imported some images from Aperture into iphoto. How can I tell iphoto the new location of the Aperture library for the images which are already referened in iphoto?
in iPhoto I get the message "The photo “....jpg” could not be opened, because the original item cannot be found. Then it opens a file browser to point to the file ... but that's of not much use if it resides in the Aperture library!
Thanks

ctheisinger,
Welcome to the user-supported Aperture discussion group.
I used the iphoto 11 to Aperture link ... imported some images from Aperture into iphoto.
There is no such thing as "the iPhoto to Aperture link". You are trying to use Aperture and iPhoto together, and that will not work. You should choose one and use only that one. Aperture knows about iPhoto enough to initialize your Aperture library when you first use it. iPhoto knows enough about Aperture to be dangerous. If you use the "Show Aperture Library" function, you should really only use it to temporarily put Aperture photos into an iPhoto library *for the purpose of some function missing from Aperture*, and there are really very few. The only one that I can think of is to use Apple's printing services for cards and calendars, which is not available in Aperture. I.e., don't use both iPhoto and Aperture for digital management.
How can I tell iphoto the new location of the Aperture library for the images which are already referened in iphoto?
That is really an iPhoto question. Someone here with recent ties to iPhoto may be able to help, but we are all Aperture users first, and some posters were iPhoto users.
nathan
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Missing aperture library after moving it to external HD

My iWeb no longer "see" my aperture library after I moved it to my external HD. my aperture library was getting really large so I moved it off my internal HD to an external HD and now my iWeb doesn't see it.
Is there a way to tell iWeb where my new aperture library is located?
thanks
cliff

Only by manually managing the updating. If you have the external why not just locate the iTunes library there? You have the iPod for portability you don't need the library on the Powerbook.

Moving a lot of masters from an external drive to Aperture library

I have just treated myself to an iMac, 3.06 GHz with 1 TB Hard drive. I have some 2,000 pictures that I have done a lot of work on already on an external Firewire drive. I have copied the Aperture library to the hard drive on the new iMac - but, they are referencing them from the external drive. I would like to import all the 45 project containing all the photos masters into my Aperture library so that I have them all together.
What is the best way to do this? Do I have to do it with individual pictures - which will take forever! I cannot seem to get the option of Relocate Master. When I tried to import - from the external hard drive - I was not able to see any pictures to import. Was this because they were already in the library and I had checked 'Do not import duplicates"
Do I need to make a new Aperture Library?
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Hi William These are the two reports that seem to relate to Aperture. It is all "Gobbledygook" to me!
May 24 12:13:19 MacBook-Pro Aperture[1001]: * NSRunLoop ignoring exception 'Exception in Aperture: [<BKiPhotoFolderItem 0x28841d90> setValue:forUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key itemiPhotoEventDisplayName.\nBacktrace:\n0x00071fea (in Aperture)\n0x91e8beb7: +[NSException exceptionWithName:reason:userInfo:] (in CoreFoundation)\n0x90c25510: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) setValue:forUndefinedKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x90b1b028: _NSSetUsingKeyValueSetter (in Foundation)\n0x90b1aa8e: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) setValue:forKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x26a5bfe6: -[BKiPhotoEventsFolder loadFolderSubfolders] (in iLife)\n0x26a5274d: -[BKiLifeFolderItem itemsFoldersOnly] (in iLife)\n0x90b1c81a: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x010078ea (in BrowserKit)\n0x90b1c81a: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x01003016 (in BrowserKit)\n0x0100341c (in BrowserKit)\n0x90b1c7a7: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x90b4a39a: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKeyPath:] (in Foundation)\n0x93992e48: -[NSBinder _valueForKeyPath:ofObject:mode:raisesForNotApplicableKeys:] (in AppKit)\n0x93992a50: -[NSBinder valueForBinding:resolveMarkersToPlaceholders:] (in AppKit)\n0x9399253c: -[NSObjectParameterBinder _updateObject:observedController:observedKeyPath:context:] (in AppKit)\n0x939921bc: -[NSObjectParameterBinder _observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:context:] (in AppKit)\n0x90b7958e: NSKVONotify (in Foundation)\n0x90af5f22: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObserverNotification) didChangeValueForKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x01003c94 (in BrowserKit)\n0x01002447 (in BrowserKit)\n0x90b1aa8e: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) setValue:forKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x9399276a: -[NSObjectParameterBinder _updateObject:observedController:observedKeyPath:context:] (in AppKit)\n0x939921bc: -[NSObjectParameterBinder _observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:context:] (in AppKit)\n0x90b7958e: NSKVONotify (in Foundation)\n0x90af5f22: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObserverNotification) didChangeValueForKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x01013b9f (in BrowserKit)\n0x90b78914: _NSSetObjectValueAndNotify (in Foundation)\n0x90b1aa8e: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) setValue:forKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x9399276a: -[NSObjectParameterBinder _updateObject:observedController:observedKeyPath:context:] (in AppKit)\n0x939921bc: -[NSObjectParameterBinder _observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:context:] (in AppKit)\n0x90b7958e: NSKVONotify (in Foundation)\n0x90af5f22: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObserverNotification) didChangeValueForKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x00ff2ee4 (in BrowserKit)\n0x90b78914: _NSSetObjectValueAndNotify (in Foundation)\n0x00ff39a8 (in BrowserKit)\n0x90b2e02d: __NSFireDelayedPerform (in Foundation)\n0x91e12b5e: CFRunLoopRunSpecific (in CoreFoundation)\n0x91e12d18: CFRunLoopRunInMode (in CoreFoundation)\n0x969da6a0: RunCurrentEventLoopInMode (in HIToolbox)\n0x969da4b9: ReceiveNextEventCommon (in HIToolbox)\n0x969da32d: BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode (in HIToolbox)\n0x937cd7d9: _DPSNextEvent (in AppKit)\n0x937cd08e: -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] (in AppKit)\n0x00369f54 (in Aperture)\n0x937c60c5: -[NSApplication run] (in AppKit)\n0x00979e5a (in ProKit)\n0x00003252 (in Aperture)\n' that raised during posting of delayed perform with target 0x2694c080 and selector '_setOutputSourceProviders:'
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May 24 12:13:38 MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x62062].com.apple.systempreferences[1012]: objc[1012]: Class O3Panel is implemented in both /System/Library/MonitorPanels/AppleDisplay.monitorPanels/Contents/Resources/Pow erMode.monitorPanel/Contents/MacOS/PowerMode and /System/Library/MonitorPanels/AppleDisplay.monitorPanels/Contents/Resources/Aut horization.monitorPanel/Contents/MacOS/Authorization. Using implementation from /System/Library/MonitorPanels/AppleDisplay.monitorPanels/Contents/Resources/Aut horization.monitorPanel/Contents/MacOS/Authorization.
May 24 12:13:38 MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x62062].com.apple.systempreferences[1012]: objc[1012]: Class O3Panel is implemented in both /System/Library/MonitorPanels/AppleDisplay.monitorPanels/Contents/Resources/Aut horization.monitorPanel/Contents/MacOS/Authorization and /System/Library/MonitorPanels/AppleDisplay.monitorPanels/Contents/Resources/TVO ptions.monitorPanel/Contents/MacOS/TVOptions. Using implementation from /System/Library/MonitorPanels/AppleDisplay.monitorPanels/Contents/Resources/TVO ptions.monitorPanel/Contents/MacOS/TVOptions.
May 25 17:55:41 MacBook-Pro Aperture[1018]: * NSRunLoop ignoring exception 'Exception in Aperture: [<BKiPhotoFolderItem 0x2375da50> setValue:forUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key itemiPhotoEventDisplayName.\nBacktrace:\n0x00071fea (in Aperture)\n0x91e8beb7: +[NSException exceptionWithName:reason:userInfo:] (in CoreFoundation)\n0x90c25510: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) setValue:forUndefinedKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x90b1b028: _NSSetUsingKeyValueSetter (in Foundation)\n0x90b1aa8e: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) setValue:forKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x2c9a6fe6: -[BKiPhotoEventsFolder loadFolderSubfolders] (in iLife)\n0x2c99d74d: -[BKiLifeFolderItem itemsFoldersOnly] (in iLife)\n0x90b1c81a: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x010078ea (in BrowserKit)\n0x90b1c81a: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x01003016 (in BrowserKit)\n0x0100341c (in BrowserKit)\n0x90b1c7a7: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x90b4a39a: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKeyPath:] (in Foundation)\n0x93992e48: -[NSBinder _valueForKeyPath:ofObject:mode:raisesForNotApplicableKeys:] (in AppKit)\n0x93992a50: -[NSBinder valueForBinding:resolveMarkersToPlaceholders:] (in AppKit)\n0x9399253c: -[NSObjectParameterBinder _updateObject:observedController:observedKeyPath:context:] (in AppKit)\n0x939921bc: -[NSObjectParameterBinder _observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:context:] (in AppKit)\n0x90b7958e: NSKVONotify (in Foundation)\n0x90af5f22: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObserverNotification) didChangeValueForKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x01003c94 (in BrowserKit)\n0x01002447 (in BrowserKit)\n0x90b1aa8e: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) setValue:forKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x9399276a: -[NSObjectParameterBinder _updateObject:observedController:observedKeyPath:context:] (in AppKit)\n0x939921bc: -[NSObjectParameterBinder _observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:context:] (in AppKit)\n0x90b7958e: NSKVONotify (in Foundation)\n0x90af5f22: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObserverNotification) didChangeValueForKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x01013b9f (in BrowserKit)\n0x90b78914: _NSSetObjectValueAndNotify (in Foundation)\n0x90b1aa8e: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) setValue:forKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x9399276a: -[NSObjectParameterBinder _updateObject:observedController:observedKeyPath:context:] (in AppKit)\n0x939921bc: -[NSObjectParameterBinder _observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:context:] (in AppKit)\n0x90b7958e: NSKVONotify (in Foundation)\n0x90af5f22: -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObserverNotification) didChangeValueForKey:] (in Foundation)\n0x00ff2ee4 (in BrowserKit)\n0x90b78914: _NSSetObjectValueAndNotify (in Foundation)\n0x00ff39a8 (in BrowserKit)\n0x90b2e02d: __NSFireDelayedPerform (in Foundation)\n0x91e12b5e: CFRunLoopRunSpecific (in CoreFoundation)\n0x91e12d18: CFRunLoopRunInMode (in CoreFoundation)\n0x969da6a0: RunCurrentEventLoopInMode (in HIToolbox)\n0x969da4b9: ReceiveNextEventCommon (in HIToolbox)\n0x969da32d: BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode (in HIToolbox)\n0x937cd7d9: _DPSNextEvent (in AppKit)\n0x937cd08e: -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] (in AppKit)\n0x00369f54 (in Aperture)\n0x937c60c5: -[NSApplication run] (in AppKit)\n0x00979e5a (in ProKit)\n0x00003252 (in Aperture)\n' that raised during posting of delayed perform with target 0x2373bbd0 and selector '_setOutputSourceProviders:'
May 25 17:55:09 MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x79079].com.apple.Aperture[1018]: CoreImage failed to create context: CGLCreateContext return: 10002

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now all the photos are there, i can see thumbnails and the large versions
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i have no idea why it's telling me the masters can't be found, when it's the masters that i'm looking at on the screen...

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2. With recovering the data and "rebuilding the library you may need to get Aperture to do a "Rebuild" and Consistency Check"
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