Importing iPhoto Events as individual Projects

Hi,
I am attempting to import my iPhoto library into Aperture 3 a single event at a time, since I am unable to import my entire library without Aperture crashing. However, when I import the events, they come across as folders instead of Projects so that when I look at the Projects view, I only see 1 "event."
Is there a way to have each event come across as a separate Project with the Event name?
Thanks,
George

So here's what happens:
If I import the entire iPhoto Library, I get a blue Folder titled "iPhoto Library", with a blue subfolder titled "Events" with contains all the iPhoto events with yellow things next to them that look like yellow crate boxes. This is good and is the format I would like to maintain.
However, when I drag an individual event, I get that yellow "box" with a title "Untitled Project" and a blue Album below it with the title of the event. This doesn't work because when I look at the Projects/Events view, all I see is the "Untitled Project" name. Also, it clutters up the left side with an "Untitled Project" title followed by the real Event name for every single event.
If I drag a group of events over, I still get only 1 Project with the title "Untitled Project" with all the iPhoto Events listed below it in blue Albums. This is the worse combination because in the Projects view I only see one Project/Event.
I hope I'm making sense, because after struggling with this for hours, my mind is starting to spin.
George

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If I were you, I'd download a trial version of Aperture and see if it works the way you want. (Even if it doesn't work how you want, you might still be happy with how it works.)
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I'm a long time iPhoto user and have about 45,000 photos from over a 30 year period that are organized into separate events with the event title being Year-Month-Activity. Such as "2015-4 Easter". It was painful to create those events but once they were done it was fantastic. We can quickly and easily pull-up all photos from my daughter's first birthday from 25 years ago, or look at all of her birthday photos. I probably have a thousand events and want to maintain that event structure when I move the library to any new photo program.
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