Aperture not seeing iPhoto Libraries on external drive when trying to do a REFERENCED import.

I am trying to bring all my iPhoto libraries (one for each year) together into one REFERENCED Aperture library.  I have the iPhoto libraries on an external hard drive and want the Aperture Library on my main drive.  Whe I go to the Import window I do see my external hard drive on the list of drives, but the files do not show up.  It shows folders and any readable files in the folders, but not the iPhoto Libraries, which are not in any folders.  I am running out of space on my hard drive, so want to do a referenced import, not a managed one, but I can't seem to get it to work.  I have tried doing the copy drag and drop method (holding command+option and dragging and dropping from finder to Aperture, but it still copies the whole library to the main drive, it does not reference it).  Help, please!

Whe I go to the Import window I do see my external hard drive on the list of drives, but the files do not show up.
Aperture will not show you files in libraries in the import panel.  iPhoto libraries are not imported using the import panel. Importing the files using the import panel would result in importing a mess of thumbnails, previews, and originals, and you would lose your organisation in events and albums and probably  most of your metadata tags.
You import iPhoto Libraries as library:
File > Import > Library
If the library you are importing is referenced, it will be imported referenced, if it is managed, the images will be imported managed. You can relocate the managed originals to your external volume directly after import using the command "File > Relocate originals"
See: Aperture 3.3: How to use Aperture to merge iPhoto libraries
Regards
Léonie

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