Importing 12,500 photos from Aperture.

As the title says, I have 12,500 photo's in Aperture - broken down into folders and projects. For reasons that I dont need to expand on, I want to start using iphoto for managing my photos, but when I imported the pictures from aperture, I now have in iphot 1 event with 12,500 pictures!
How do I get my folders from aperture to show as events in iphoto, and have the correct photos in these folders?
TIA
Wayno

iPhoto has no knowledge of, and knows nothing of how the Aperture Library works. It cannot read the Aperture library. So:
1. Export all your Masters
2. Export all your Versions
You can write the metadata to the files on export - check out the Export presets in Aperture. Note that you cannot export Faces. There is no convention for sharing Faces. The best you can do is use Faces as a basis for keywording.
Import them into iPhoto. Note that there is no way to associate the masters with the versions in iPhoto, so you'll have apparent duplicates.
There is no other way to get your Photos from Aperture to iPhoto. The best any other method can di is access either the thumbnails or the Previews.
Regards
TD

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