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172 Part II Photo Editing
Locating a Referenced Image on a Hard Disk
At times you may need to quickly find a referenced image’s master on your hard disk to
copy or move it, attach it to an email, or otherwise work with it outside of Aperture.
You can select an image in the Browser and have Aperture display the image’s master
location in the Finder.
To locate a referenced image’s master in the Finder:
1 Select the referenced image you want in the Browser.
2 Choose File > Show in Finder.
A Finder window appears, displaying the selected referenced image’s master.
Note: If you open a referenced image’s master from the Finder in another application,
you will not see the changes or adjustments you’ve made to the image in Aperture.
Your changes appear in versions stored in the Aperture library, and the referenced
image’s master is always left unchanged. To see the adjusted photo, you need to export
a version of it.
Reconnecting Missing or Offline Referenced Images
When a referenced image’s master is offline, you can’t make adjustments to the image
until you reconnect the master to your Aperture system. If you have disconnected a
hard disk drive that holds a referenced image’s master, you can reconnect the drive to
your computer system and Aperture automatically locates the hard disk and
reconnects the master.
If an image 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
master for the specific image.
To reconnect an offline referenced image:
1 Reconnect the hard disk holding the referenced image’s master, or otherwise locate or
make the file available to Aperture for reconnecting.
2 Select a project that contains the offline image you want to reconnect, or select the
offline image in the Browser.
3 Choose File > Manage Referenced Files.