Where are my thumbnail previews?

After upgrading my hard-drive (time machine restore) most of my thumbnail previews in Aperature 3 are gone. Most but not all. Also, many without the preview will render only in large format - but no thumbnail sticks after backing back out. The photo's are there but no previews are shown. I've tried "updating preview" to no avail. Aperature CPU usage ramps up for a minute or two then fades away without completing the preview generation. Any suggestions?

jordanfromgainesville wrote:
FYI. It says my HD is offline so it can't update from the Master. But the weird thing is only some of the files are effected by this. Tell me I don't have to repoint Aperature to each file again. I guess I could reimport the projects...
Since your Library and your file structure should be unchanged by the drive replacement, it should be simple work to reconnect any and all images with missing Masters to their Masters.
The next thing to test is your Aperture installation.
Create a new Library, populate it with a few dozen images. Does it work as expected?
Can you open your Library on another computer (one with, of course, Aperture installed)?
Do you have any other back-ups of your Library? Something seems to have gone badly wrong over the course of your drive replacement.

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