Empty Untitled Folders in Aperture

I migrated all of my events from IPhoto to Aperture, and I now have a bunch of empty Untitled Folders that create themselves every time I open Aperture. They are essentially ghost folders because they don't contain anything. I can delete them, but they continue to come back. Any thoughts?

What is your Aperture 3 version?
In Aperture 3,3 these untitled projects (not folders) can be created by the autpmatic import from Photo Stream. I'd disable the automatic import, if you have imported all images that you want and toggle the photo stream off and on the System Preferences "iCloud" panel.
I migrated all of my events from IPhoto to Aperture,
How did you do this? Are you using your iPhoto Library as Aperture library? Then check in iPhoto for hidden photos. Any event with hidden photos will show as empty project in Aperture, and you csnnot unhide the photos in Aperture, only in iPhoto.

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