Huge bug in iPhoto since 9.3

I used my iMac with Snow Leopard and iPhoto 9.2 and all was fine. Last Summer I bought my MB Retina with Mountain Lion and so I was able to use iPhoto 9.3. Several months I imported photos and then I installed aperture 3. I found out, that the focusing points are missing on all photos that are imported with iPhoto 9.3 or later. All photos imported with 9.2 or earlier were fine.
So I deleted all photos since summer and imported them again with Aperture. Luckily I'm not trusting Apple that much, so I stored all my original photos additional to an extra harddrive outside iPhoto.
I told the bug to the support, but it looks like, no one cares about. I've just updated to 9.4.3 and the bug is still there.

Hello Harry468,
please check the following, if iPhoto realy destroys the your photo data upon import, or if the problem is at any other point:
open Finder
rightclick on the iPhoto Library ->> leftclick show contents
you are now within the iPhoto Library
search the Masters or Original folder
within one of this folders you find your events and within the events the single photos
COPY one of these photos directly to the desktop and import
it directly from Aperture..
Are Focus Points correctly shown?
If yes, then iPhoto doesn´t destroy the data, but nevertheless the old workflow can´t be used, because importing to iPhoto seems to make it impossible to use the Points in Aperture.
And yes, I would also call this a bug, even if there are workarounds.

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