I consolidated the originals of a group of referenced files in Aperture and chose to copy them to my Aperture library. When the consolidation was complete, I went to my Aperture library in the Finder, chose ‘Show package contents,’ found the Masters folder and checked to see if the files were there. As far as I can tell, they are not. I am certain that the files are supposed to be imported into the Aperture library, so, where did they go?
Found them! They didn’t go into folders that correctly matched their date taken, but I did find them elsewhere. It’s strange to find photos taken on 12/14/2010 located in a folder dated 02/25/2011, but that’s where they ended up!
The originals within the Masters folder inside the Aperture library are actually organized by import session. If you import on a different day than the images were shot, the dates won’t match.
Thomas
Thomas, thanks for confirming that. I just imported a few files into iPhoto and the same thing happened. I guess i’ve been pretty timely with importing before and never really noticed that until I consolidated my referenced files. Now, I see that the various referenced files varied from the day of to a long time later.