Album Folder Names Truncated

I am importing my Sounds Of The Seventies collection from CD. My issue arises when I import albums that have names greater than 40 characters, I get folder names like
Sounds Of The Seventies - Punk and New W
Sounds Of The Seventies - AM Pop Classic
Classic Rock [Creedence Clearwater Reviv
Now, that's ok if I don't have any other albums that have the same 1st 40 characters I guess, although it's annoying that the folder doesn't have the full name.
The big problem is when I have albums lik
Sounds Of The Seventies - AM Pop Classics I
Sounds Of The Seventies - AM Pop Classics II
They both go into the same truncated folder Sounds Of The Seventies - AM Pop Classic. Renaming the folder after import and trying to add them via Add File doesn't work either.
I wouldn't even mind if I could create a Sounds Of The Seventies as the Artist, and not mark it as a compilation, and put the shortened album titles underneath
Any ideas?

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    First, thanks for the lengthy and helpful response. In thinking about what you wrote, I probably don't need to worry about my Master file storage structure. So long as Aperture is able to find my Masters no matter the folder, project, album they sit in, I should be fine. My initial thinking was that if I wanted to access my Masters (for some reason) outside of Aperture, it would be easier for me to know where everything was. That being said, I don't really ever need to do that, as everything can be done straight from within Aperture. Still, it just makes me a little uneasy knowing that my images are organized and structured one way in Aperture and another outside of it where those images are linked to.
    Don't let it make you uneasy. Even if they are all in one 55-gallon bag (or Finder folder), they are easily sorted by date (and time) taken, and by file name. These two alone -- esp. if you have renamed your Masters with a good and rigorously applied file-naming convention -- should meet every need you might have.
    Moreover, your Aperture Library of images should be deeply hyperlinked. That's a big reason to use Aperture. None of those hyperlinks are create-able in a file storage system.
    At the risk of being (even more) off-putting than usual: think on that. Beginning to understand that difference allows you to manage your data in much more successful ways.
    The second reason I was asking is because when I import into Aperture as a Referenced Library, I also back up those images to a second external hard disk. I generally keep this back up archive organized and structured the same way as my Masters structure. If I ever deleted a Referenced Master and then later on wanted to re-import it from my back up archive, it makes it easier to find things, etc if they are organized the same way.
    I don't buy it. Can you give an example of a situation in which you need to find a file and you don't know the date it was taken (at least roughly) or some part of the file name?
    Your Masters need almost no storage structure at all.
    IME, once I started using Aperture's extensive image management tools, I found I had almost no -- zero, nada -- file management needs beyond back-up.
    If you read what I wrote just above, I guess this plays to that. How do you manage your back-up file management system if things change in ways that I have suggested, i.e. renaming projects, etc and moving things around from one project to another?
    I try to keep two additional copies of every Library and every set of Referenced Masters at all times. One set is kept off-site. It's not hard to do -- but I do run copy operations that last all night. Aperture's Vault can serve as one of the Library copies. I have found it easier to manage when I don't use Vaults, so I stopped using them. If you find Vaults convenient, use them.
    Just to be clear: My main goal is to make sure that my back-up file management structure mimics my Aperture Library Folder, Project, Album (well, not album as you can't organize at this time by album name) structure. I am not talking about the structure of where my Masters are stored, but rather the structure of my back-up. I hope this makes sense.
    This does not make sense. +File management+ refers to Referenced Masters and not to Aperture Folders, Projects, or Albums.
    Your Aperture Folder, Project, & Albums (all of 'em) structure is part of your Library. Back up your Library, and you have backed up that structure.
    The files an Aperture user needs to back up are
    - your Aperture Library (an OS X package of hundreds of thousands of files)
    - all your Referenced Masters.
    That's it.

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