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If a photo is oine or modied in some way that makes it unrecognizable as the original
referenced image, you can still select it and Aperture can reconnect the original for the
specic photo.
To reconnect an oine referenced image
1 Reconnect the hard disk holding the referenced image’s original, or otherwise locate or make the
le available to Aperture for reconnecting.
2 Select the project that contains the oine photo you want to reconnect, or select the oine
photo 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 le 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 le path listed for a selected photo in the top of the dialog.
When you select the le, 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 le.
7 Click Reconnect to reconnect a specic photo, or click Reconnect All to reconnect all
selected photos.
Relocating Referenced Originals
You can easily move originals for referenced images (referenced originals) to new locations on the
same hard disk or a dierent hard disk. For example, if you use several hard disks, you might want
to move the originals they contain to a convenient location on a dierent hard disk.