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In Aperture 3.5.1 on Mac OS 10.9.1 and I have no accounts such as Flickr or Facebook listed in Aperture Account Preferences.
Project A has no Albums and Project B has various Albums containing images which were directly imported from camera...
I wish to MOVE only (not copy) some image/images from Project B's individual Albums to Project A.
If I drag-n-drop the image, Aperture only creates a copy in the new destination. I don't want so much duplication.
I have looked in the Help docs but cannot see an answer to my particular question, so I'm here.
Any help appreciated.
Many Thanks,
Robin

This is one of the places where Apple has disingenuously presented Aperture. It _is_ confusing.
Somewhat counter-intuitively, Albums (but not Smart Albums, which are different creatures in one important way) are always independent of Projects.
The position of an Album in the Library Inspector is, in terms of your data, meaningless. You can move any Album anywhere in the Library structure shown in the Library Inspector, and, other than where it is shown to you in the Inspector, nothing is changed. Album location has no bearing on Album content or on Project content.
(It may help to quickly review the parts of Aperture and how they inter-relate.)
As such, even though you may organize the containers in your Library in the Library Inspector so that Albums are shown as children of Projects, they have no relationship to any Project. (Selecting a Project will not show you the contents of any Albums that are children of that Project. Moving an Album that is a child of a Project to be a child of another Project in no way changes the contents of either of the Projects or of the Album. And so on.)
I emphasize the above so that we can remove "Project" from your question, which becomes simple: how to move (not copy) an Image from one Album to another Album.
As Ernie has pointed out, this cannot be done in a single action. (I don't know why.) You must copy the Image into the second Album, and then remove it from the first Album.
I find it helpful to have two Browsers open when comparing containers and moving Images. After selecting on of your Albums, hold down "{Option}" while selected the other one. You can't drag images between the Browsers, but the container names are easy to find because they are highlighted in the Library Inspector, and you can drag images and drop them on the container name in the Inspector.
HTH,
--Kirby.

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