Import folders into project

Question

I had photos from a two-week period that I wanted to import by day with the project having 14 daily folders. I used this import option and it created a new masters folder with the appropriately named (yyyymmdd) subfolders (referenced images). That worked fine. However, the resulting project was a flat one without any folder structure. I overcame this by saving the new masters folder and deleting the project. I then re-imported the structured folder and the resulting project had the desired folder structure.
I am just wondering what I did wrong, as the documentation led me to believe I could accomplish this in one step. No big deal now that it is done, but it took some experimentation,

Answer 1

Hm, I've been struggling with this myself for days now. I have images from several days of shooting on my camera card, and I'd like to import them into different folders, so I don't have 500+ images in one hard to use folder.
Importing them does separate the actual files out into separate subdirectories, in the /year/month/day/ format with one folder for each day. That's great, but the project still has all 500 plus images lumped in one unusable directory. I also found that the only way around it was to delete the automatic project, but leave the files, and then re-import the files from the hard disk. Then they show up separated into folders.
This is ironic, as the whole reason I bought Aperture was because I thought it was going to simplify my workflow. So far it's not working out.
I also submitted some feedback; as I tend to use a big camera card and I don't always get around to editing the cards the same day as the shoot.