Stuck on generating previews for 13 files

No matter what I do aperture is stuck on generating previews for 13 files. Canceling the task does not help. In fact after canceling I have to force quit aperture. And when I start it up again the same 13 files are being updated, but as usual the 13 files do not count down to zero but stay stuck on 13. I have no idea on how to find these 13 files that are supposedly being updated.
Does anyone have any ideas. If these are corrupt files that aperture is stuck on is there any way I can find the culprit or do I have to rebuild something??? Any advice would be much appreciated.

fotoguy wrote:
No matter what I do aperture is stuck on generating previews for 13 files. Canceling the task does not help. In fact after canceling I have to force quit aperture. And when I start it up again the same 13 files are being updated, but as usual the 13 files do not count down to zero but stay stuck on 13. I have no idea on how to find these 13 files that are supposedly being updated.
Does anyone have any ideas. If these are corrupt files that aperture is stuck on is there any way I can find the culprit or do I have to rebuild something??? Any advice would be much appreciated.
in the Projects pane select Recent Projects it should be in that Projects list. If the thumbnails are grayed out you might think about Rebuilding the Library, hold down the "apple and option" keys when opening Aperture

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