Relocate Masters, keep existing file structure

Hello,
I've got a ton of photos that are organized by folder (by date and then by name of event). I've pulled them into Aperture as referenced files. I need to relocate those masters, but I want to keep the existing file structure. If I use the "relocate masters" command, Aperture creates its own file structure, which makes it virtually impossible to search the folders by event because it strips my existing file names. How can I relocate the master files while keeping my existing file structure?
Thanks!

Select the previews with the broken links, look under file-manage referenced images.
Dialog will show the disconnected files in upper part of dialog, and a navigation area in the lower part, select one of the disconnected files from the top, find it's mate in the lower. If they are all in the same folder hit reconnect all button and they should all magically reattach.
There's probably some better instructions in the help file.

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