Store location of raw files.

If I import a raw file, edit the version, export the version then delete the version, what has happened to my original master raw file, where has aperture stored it?
any advice welcome, thanks.
Mike

Nothing hapens to the original, it is still in your Aperture Library.
When you export a version, Aperture takes the info from the Master file, adds to it any of the adjustments you have made, and then creates a completley new file outside of Aperture, in the location you specify during export. The Master is still in your library, you can do what you want with the exported version, Aperture doesn't follow it once it is exported.
You should read through the Aperture manual to get a better  concept of what is going on, have a look at this bit:
http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapter=3%26sec tion=1

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