Reimporting from Aperture Vault problems

I had to reinstall my photo library from the vault when my external hard drive corrupted. When I reinstalled, the various projects in one folder combined into one, and now I have no distinctions between photos in one subject. Anyone ever had this problem?
Since I do the photography for a weekly newspaper, I have thousands of photos and need to keep my library on an external hard drive. My computer was just too slow with the photo library on my computer. Is there a way around this problem?

Yes it is a normal but unreported feature. When you run the vault command the vault created is a snapshot of the current state of the library. If there is a previous vault for this library then images that are in the vault but no longer in the library are moved to the folder you referred to.
If you are certain you do not want any of those images anymore you an delete them.
regard

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