All photos disappeared after deleting iPhoto library

I followed the tutorial http://www.apple.com/aperture/iphoto-to-aperture/how.html to import iPhoto library into Aperture and everything worked perfectly fine just until I finished the last step and deleted the iPhoto library. Since then I do not see anything under "PROJECTS & ALBUMBS", i.e. there are not the iPhoto events anymore. When I click on Projects icon (in the LIBRARY tree) I can see all those events, however these projects are empty!
I browsed the Aperture library I was able to locate all the master pictures there were moved there in the “Consolidate Masters for Library” step. But that is all. I do not see all the albums I've created since the iPhoto library was imported either.
What should I do?

So I figured it out myself. I just had to restart Aperture. After that everything seems to be all right again!

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