Import foldes as projects

Question

Hi,
my current file structure for my pictures is very bad currently. I'd like to sort them in a year/month way. When importing into Aperture, i can create such structure perfectly (by using the import as projects option and renaming all files/folders) but Aperture imports the old file structure as projects afterwards which makes no sense for me.
Old structure on the HDD for example:
- Holiday
  - Italy
  - Spain
New structure after Import on the HDD
- 2010
-01
-02
-03
So far so good but in Aperture the naming of the projects is still
- Holiday
  - Italy
  - Spain
Only workaround I found is to delete all Projects in Aperture and then reimport it using the new file structure created by Aperture Any way to tell aperture ONLY to create a new file structure on the HDD and then import exactly that structure as projects?
Thanks!

Answer 1

The assumption is that you have a Finder folder structure because you wanted that Finder folder structure.
Note that date sorting and year grouping are built into Projects View, and that date sorting and grouping by any range is built into Photos View (w. a choice of either of the Filter Rules "Calendar" or "Date").
Aperture is an Image management program.  It is not a file manager (though it does that).  One of its most important features is that it is built around Image management and not around file management.  This takes some getting used to.
You can, of course, create a storage and retrieval structure of Projects based on Date, but there is no compelling reason to do so.  I suspect that is the designers' reason for not implementing an "auto-create Projects and Folders by date" feature.
Until you have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should (imho, obviously) stick with the Project organization recommended by Aperture: One Project = one shoot.
How you organize your Projects in your Library is entirely up to you.  Again, remember: date sorting and year grouping of Projects is always available via Projects View.