Silly Question Regarding : Media browser

Hello,
I am sure it something simple, but I am stuck and I have done 3 hrs of searching, restarts and Preference kills.
• Share previews with iLife and iWork is checked in Aperture
• Aperture icon doesn't show up in the media browser
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
-J

Note, if you want to "trick" things like this, use a symbolic link, not an alias. Symbolic links ('man ln' from the command line) work for pretty much EVERYTHING like this... the OS really can't tell the difference except in a few cases.
Symbolic links are created ln -s /Volumes/ExternalDrive ./Directoryname
Or thereabouts... reading the man page is a good idea

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