Re-importing to Aperture after cleaning hard drive.

Recently I wiped clean my harddrive to reinstall OS Lyon. Of course I backed up everything on a external harddrive. Once Lyon was installed I migrated all the data back onto the system harddrive. Now, all of those versions that I had also stored in Apeture are either missing or contaminated. So what shall I do, delete the old versions in Aperture then re-import new versions into Aperture?
Thanks,
Buzzsdad.

Hi Ernie,
I had to take my imac to the Apple Store, so I was without my machine and couldn't respond to your reply. The logic board needed to be replaced. Fortunately, I have the Apple Care Plan, so the repair didn't cost me anything. Since your last post I've read up on Referenced and Managed Library, and I now know about Vaults. It turns out that 1/2 my files were managed the others were Referenced. And I've also learned that referenced isn't as simple. However, let me ask you this. Should I just delete all of the referenced projects in the my Aperature Library, then reimport them back into the Libary. Wouldn't that be the simplist way to do it, rather than adding files on top of corrucpted files.
Thanks,
Tom

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