Unable to reconnect referenced masters

Apperture does not find my hard (boot) drive even though it is there as you can see in the attached picture. The connection was lost when I acessed the library from an other computor. Everything went well except quiting the external connection. I had to force Apperture to stop.
The hard drive is marked Offline in status even though apperture sees it for importing new pictures. How could I make Apperture see the drive again?
This is a major problem for me since I have some 10.000 referenced pictures. They cannot be located one by one. I have made enourmous job in retouching the pictures and it would be catastrofy to loose that work. Could any one please help me?
Best regards, Markus

Markus,
have you tried the first aid? The remote access may have corrupted your Aperture Library.
Try the permission repair, and if necessary, the Library repair as described here:
Troubleshooting Basics: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805
Post back, if this does not help.
Remote access to your library is extremely risky: Aperture is not designed as a network shared library:
Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library:http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3252
Regards
Léonie

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I have about 1 TB of masters located on an external drive. I want to transfer these masters to a new 2 TB drive.
Even though I copied the masters to the new drive and renamend the volume just like the old one, Aperture is unable to locate the masters on the new external drive.
What's the trick? And no, I don't want to use the "relocate masters" or "locate referenced files ..." feature for these 10th of thounds of images.
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And no, I don't want to use the "relocate masters" or "locate referenced files ..." feature for these 10th of thounds of images.
That is too bad , for "File > Relocate Original files" is the built in way to do it. You simply have to let Aperture move the files - how else should it keep track of the location of the original files?
Mount both drives.
Select all referenced images in the Browser at once, for example from the "Photos" view.
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Still trying to solve this.
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Workaround: Make a dmg formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and put the Library on that and store it on the NAS.
I think I have to mirror the iTunes solution above,
This involves having iPhoto reference the files on the NAS with the Library on your internal HD or some other volume. I strongly suggest that you don't do that. Unlike Aperture, iPhoto has no tools to reconnect with lost masters (Originals in iPhoto) so should anything go wrong you'll find yourself re-connecting each individual photo in the Library with its Original +one by one+.
but figure out which folders to move
You would need to recreate your Library as a Referenced Library.
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TD

The Best Method To Backup Referenced Masters?

I cannot find in Aperture help any mention of backing up the referenced masters which seems odd that Apple would consider backing up managed photos on the internal Aperture Library while not considering the very common (and supported by Apple) method of working with referenced masters on external hard drives.
This is what I am doing: I am using super duper to clone the HDD with the referenced masters to another external drive. If the HDD with the referenced masters dies I just hope that I can somehow reconnect the masters on the other HDD.
Is there a better way to back up those referenced masters? Perhaps a method I am not aware of from within Aperture to make it easy to use or reconnect the back up images?
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It makes me wonder. Since Aperture places the backups and therefore "knows" the location, does it in the event of losing the originals, have a dialog box or other means for "finding" and reconnecting to the file backups?
afaik, no. Kirby, do you know differently?
But there is of cause the "File > locate referenced files" window, that will allow you to reconnect the versions with their masters. But you will have to point Aperture to the location of the masters.
I am a fanatic with keeping at least two but preferrably 3 copies of everything in at least two different formats.
and preferably in two different places, see Kirby Krieger's post - "offsite location".
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Your suggestion works, but
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We are talking about a big deficit of reliability here...
I had a backup of my Aperture Library. So I reconnected the files again, without a Library rebuild this time.
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No need to mention that I have lost all day moving around many gigabytes of data, reconnecting files, etc etc. This is hardly a productivity boost.
The worst part is that I like a lot the Aperture UI and I hate the alternative.
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I shoot images into the field and download them to my laptop. I then transfer them back to my iMac when I get home. I use Aperture 3 for my pictures.
In Aperture, I have all of my files referenced to a external drive. I want to back these photos up overnight using a Drobo or Synology NAS drive.
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