Importing library to Aperture 3.3: not enough free space

I am trying to import an iPhoto Library (9.3) into a brand new, blank Aperture 3.3 library, but I am getting the following error message:  "The library could not be imported because there is not enough free space on your current Aperture Library volume."
That's impossible because the library is actually around 70 GB in size; my hard disk itself is 750 GB so it's impossible for my iPhoto Library to requre 1821.95 GB of space!
I understand the file format of both iPhoto 9.3 and Aperture 3.3 library are the same; but everything else still seems to think it's an iPhoto Library by default...

My solution was to drag the photos manually from one application to the other.
Hi darenrobbins,
This certainly works, but a caution:
By dragging from Aperture to iPhoto you only transfer the previews, not the originals. So better make sure, that you are now satisfied with the image resolution that you have in iPhoto after dragging.
For example, I just dragged an image from Aperture to iPhoto; it is a jpeg with 3648 × 2736 (10.0 MP) - in iPhoto it was imported as 1824x1368; the size I have set for previews.
InAperture, before dragging:
Dragged to iPhoto:
So check, if you have not lost image quality by your transfer method.
Regards
Léonie

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