Apple Aperture 3.5 - Manual (Page 70)

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Reconnect offline referenced images
If you disconnected a hard disk drive that holds referenced image’s originals, you can reconnect
the drive to your computer, and Aperture automatically reconnects the originals.
If a photo is offline or modified in some way that makes it unrecognizable as the original
referenced image, you can still select it and have Aperture reconnect the original.
1 Reconnect the hard disk drive holding the referenced originals, or otherwise locate or make the
files available to Aperture for reconnecting.
2 Select the project that contains the offline photos you want to reconnect, or select the offline
photos in the Browser.
3 Choose File > Locate Referenced Files.
4 If necessary, click the Show Reconnect Options button.
Select the volume you want here,
and navigate to the location of the
file on the hard disk.
5 At the top of the dialog, select the file path for the original that you want to reconnect.
A thumbnail of the photo and some identifying metadata appear.
6 In the bottom half of the dialog, navigate to the location of the referenced image’s original on
the hard disk and select the original.
You can follow the file path listed for a selected photo in the top of the dialog.
When you select the file, a thumbnail of the photo and metadata appear, allowing you to
compare them to the thumbnail and metadata in the upper part of the dialog to make sure
you’ve selected the correct file.
7 Click Reconnect to reconnect a specific photo, or click Reconnect All to reconnect all
selected photos.
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