Strange Aperture behavior... anyone seen this before?

Question

I recently purchased and installed Aperture for my MacBook Pro. My photos reside on an attached (via Firewire) Western Digital MyBook external (originally used on a PC). Its volume name is "My Book".
In setting up Aperture, I pointed it to various folders on the drive and had them imported into the library managed by reference. Everything seemed to work beautifully.
Yesterday, I detached the drive and took the laptop to school. When I returned home, I hooked up to the drive again only find that I can no longer use the Adjustments pane. It stays grayed out and inactive with a continuous "Image Loading" warning at the top of the pane. Each photo also has a yellow warning triangle with seeming to indicate a broken link.
When I bring up the Manage Referenced Files dialog all I see is a volume called WINXP, which is the name of my Boot Camp partition. The directory path is the correct one were it looking at the MyBook drive. When I select the Boot Camp partition and hit the unmount button, despite saying WINXP, it does unmount the WD MyBook external drive. Does that make sense? What I expect to see is the MyBook volume with that same directory path. The path indicated doesn't exist on the WINXP partition which is why Aperture can't find the files.
Interestingly, the MyBook external works flawlessly through the Finder.
It's confusing. It's like Aperture thinks the Windows partition is the MyBook volume or vice versa. Rebuilding/Indexing the database didn't help though it ran without errors.
Has anyone heard of this kind of problem before? Got a solution? Suggestion?
Thanks!
Peter (in San Diego)
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   2 GB RAM

Answer 1

I recently purchased and installed Aperture for my
MacBook Pro. My photos reside on an attached (via
Firewire) Western Digital MyBook external (originally
used on a PC). Its volume name is "My Book".
In setting up Aperture, I pointed it to various
folders on the drive and had them imported into the
library managed by reference. Everything seemed to
work beautifully.
Yesterday, I detached the drive and took the laptop
to school. When I returned home, I hooked up to the
drive again only find that I can no longer use the
Adjustments pane. It stays grayed out and inactive
with a continuous "Image Loading" warning at the top
of the pane. Each photo also has a yellow warning
triangle with seeming to indicate a broken link.
When I bring up the Manage Referenced Files dialog
all I see is a volume called WINXP, which is the name
of my Boot Camp partition. The directory path is the
correct one were it looking at the MyBook drive. When
I select the Boot Camp partition and hit the unmount
button, despite saying WINXP, it does unmount the WD
MyBook external drive. Does that make sense? What I
expect to see is the MyBook volume with that same
directory path. The path indicated doesn't exist on
the WINXP partition which is why Aperture can't find
the files.
Interestingly, the MyBook external works flawlessly
through the Finder.
It's confusing. It's like Aperture thinks the Windows
partition is the MyBook volume or vice versa.
Rebuilding/Indexing the database didn't help though
it ran without errors.
Has anyone heard of this kind of problem before? Got
a solution? Suggestion?
Thanks!
Peter (in San Diego)
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.9)
  2 GB RAM
Indeed, I have been having the same issues and am not happy with other aspects of Aperture.
I find it very time consuming and nearly all of my images have yellow caution icons on them.
When I click on My BOK to print, for exaqmple, I get an error message with a dialogue box indicating that these file are refernced and have no reference?????