Relocate masters changed my raw files to jpeg.

I don' want my images in the aerture library but in folders that I can drag and drop as I please. So today I decided to relocate my masters. Thankfully I had backed up my entire Pictures folder on a separate drive. Thankfully, because the relocate function didn't just move my projects in to folders, as I wanted, but it also changed everything from RAW to JPG.. That was not what I wanted.
I'm restoring from the back up as I type this.
BBasically I'm back to square one and need to find a way to extract my immages out of the aperture library and in to folders keeping the raw format. Any suggestions?

Did you choose File >> Relocate Masters?
Aperture will not make a jpeg from a RAW unless you either choose File>> Export Version(s) or drag from the Aperture Browser to the finder. Even then, the RAW master remains intact.
The correct procedure for what you want to do is File >> Relocate Masters.
DLS

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