Operation Manual

Identifying Referenced Images
After you import referenced images, you can identify them in the Browser by turning on
referenced image badge overlays. Referenced images appear with badges that show
whether their masters are currently available (online) or not found (offline).
These badge overlays
indicate the images are
referenced images.
This badge overlay
indicates the image is an
offline referenced image.
To turn on referenced image badge overlays
1 Choose Aperture > Preferences, or press Command-Comma (,).
2 In the Preferences window, click Appearance, then select the “Badge referenced images”
checkbox.
You can select and work with online referenced images using the same procedures you
use with images whose masters reside in the Aperture library.
Aperture keeps track of referenced images’ masters when you move or rename the files
in the Finder, keeping them on the same hard disk or volume.
A referenced image appears as an offline image if the hard disk holding the referenced
image’s master has been disconnected from your computer system. A referenced image
is listed as “not found” when its master has been deleted, moved to the Finder Trash, or
moved from its original hard disk location to another hard disk drive and Aperture can’t
find it.
Displaying a List of Referenced Images
When working with numerous images in the Browser, you may need to determine which
images have masters that reside in the Aperture library and which are referenced images
whose masters are located elsewhere on your hard disks.
You can select a group of images in the Browser and Aperture can show a list of the
referenced images within the selection, including information about where the masters
are located.
To see a list of referenced images in a selection
1 In the Browser, select a group of images.
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