Show source folder name within Aperture

Is it possible, within Aperture, to see where the actual image is stored on my hard drive? ie, the path and folder structure?
I would think it would be an option when the bottom viewer is set up to show the columns of text (rather than images)...
Or an option within File Info.
But I'm not seeing it.
Thanks

File>Manage Referenced Images... will show the file paths, but you can't see it via normal metadata.
Ian

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Right click on Logical diagram and from context menu select Show->Labels
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Bad folder name inside aperture project folders

Hello,
As a consequence of a kernel panic, macos partition died and I had to reinstall macos (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10349974#10349974). However windows 7 was ok so I did the backup of aperture library from same machine with windows (macdrive).
I copy pasted back the aperture library from external hard drive, and I get for every picture, "unsupported image format". It appears to be that all folder names inside of every .approject folder where modified. Instead of being something like:
2009-05-10 @ 10/12/10 PM - 1.apimportgroup
it is
2009-05-10 @ 101210 PM - 1.apimportgroup
When I change the "_" with "/" everything goes back normal.
I have a lot of projects, so changing every folder name back manually will take years, specially when you need to right click and click show package contents for every folder to get to the bad ones.... You know a workaround for this or a quick way to change all folders name?
Thanks a lot,
Best,
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puco,
If you adept at using the terminal/shell and a couple of unix utilities you can have this fixed up in no time with a variety of shell script and regular expressions (or another scripting language of your choice like perl, awk, etc, etc) as long as you are sure you know what the folder names were. Since they were all changed by WINDOZE in the same way it is a piece of cake to fix.
A lot of people have this issue when dealing with multiple OS/file systems copies but I mention this solution to you only because you seem clever enough to diagnose it - you can probably deal with a short fix-it script yourself as well.
RB

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I am failrly green when it comes to automator.
I am trying to write an Automator program:
Not sure where to post this
trying to write an Automator program to find files and alter their names
I have a source folder with correct named master files in it.
eg. A0001_1234.mpeg
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date 07/07/2012
Another folder where there will be copies of the master files in a different format with different names but created at the same time as a file in the source directory.
they are created with a seperate device but they are
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R

Hi,
It's impossible to do this without any script in Automator.
Use this AppleScript script :
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set anotherfolder to choose folder with prompt "Choose the another folder"
tell application "Finder"
    repeat with tfile in (get files of source)
        set cDate to creation date of tfile
        set findFiles to (files of anotherfolder whose creation date is cDate)
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Script to get tab delimited list of folder names within a main directory

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Now that I think about this a little more, I'm guessing you want two further pieces of information.
You don't want just the name of the folders, you want their path, and you want to capture subfolders as well, correct?
If that's the case, try this:
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Aperture crashed on me, then it did a rebuild but now when I try to open it all I get is the message: Warning.There was an error opening the database for the library "/Users/[Folder name]/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary".Only option is to press 'Quit'

I'd be grateful for any suggestions as to how I can re-open Aperture again. It has been increasingly flaky recently and this isn't the first time it has done a rebuild but is the first time it has failed to start up. Most of my photos are referenced. Many thanks for any help you can give.

Dave-
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Data Modeler - Source/Target Name

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For instance if the folder names all contain the word "Default" what script could I write to remove "Default" from the names of all folders with it in the name.
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