Aperture Library Menu after iPhoto import

When I purchased Aperture I imported by iPhoto library into it.  This created a bewildering number of entries in the library listing seen on the left of the screen.
my Library listings on the left in windowed view.  It is just clogged with entries created when I imported my iPhoto library... there are numbers, projects, dates, rolls and albums all one after anothe.  You seem to only be able to choose "all items" "favorite items" or "recent items" and some additional arrangments.  Is there a way to pare this down without damage?  Here is a small section of what I see...

William,
what does your original iPhoto Library look like?
Your screenshot shows a list of projects. When you imported the iPhoto library, Aperture should have created one project for each of the events in the iPhoto Library. Does your iPhoto library have similar events?
If you see too many projects you can do two things to get them better organized:
Create folders (File > New > Folder) and drag related projects to the same folder. Then you can collapse the folders and hide the projects inside.
Merge related projects. If you select the "Projects" view (in the top section of the library inspector), you can merge projects by dragging a project on top of another project.
Do not delete projects, unless you want to delete the images in th projects. Projects are the containers of the images. Each image (and all its edited versions) resides in exactly one project, and deleting the project will delete the image and all its versions.
Regards
Léonie

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