Current Aperture Library not seen by iPhoto

I work exclusively in Aperture for all of my photo needs, but recently decided to import some pictures into iPhoto for ease of uploading to Shutterfly (they had a plug-in for iPhoto). Much to my dismay, when I pulled up the "display Aperture Library" it showed a very outdated (6-8 months old) library! None of the recent photos were there, and a lot of old stuff that I had discarded showed up (although the picture had a "?" because it was missing). I tried both the Rebuild and Consistency Check (Command-Option at startup). I only have one library, and it is in the default location under the pictures folder. I am the only user on this iMac, and there is nothing in the shared folder either. I'm at a total loss.

The library from Aperture had never been moved or copied, and it was never altered in any way outside of Aperture itself. It has been and still is in the same place as it always has (on the local hard drive under the "Pictures" folder) and has never been renamed.
What I ended up doing is to create all new project names, moved all my photos from the old projects into the newly titled projects, and then deleted the old project titles. Somehow, this fixed the issue and iPhoto can see the Aperture Library now. I don't know how or why, but its working again. And I did nothing outside of Aperture (no copying, moving, renaming, etc. of the original Aperture Library file).

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If you are talking about photos that have been exported from Aperture and then imported into iPhoto, then you are right. No change made in Aperture would result in a change to the version in iPhoto.
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I just moved from iPhoto to Aperture. I imported my iPhoto library and everything seemed to be ok. Then i noticed one thing that bothers me : my Aperture library is much smaller in size than my iPhoto library (130 Go and 180 Go).
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