Made a mess of importing - can I delete all and start again?

Mac newbie. I have all my photos safely stored on an external hard drive in a folder structure such as Asia/Country/city, etc.
I just got a Mac. Looked at but didn't want to use iPhoto, so d/l Aperture.
I imported one city folder with "automatically split projects" ticked (it was default) and got hundreds of projects - one for each day I took photos, I think. I need an easy way to clear them out/delete so I can import correctly.
Suggestions? I've since d/l the pdf manuals from Apple and I promise to read them :>

The default setting on import is to move the masters into the Aperture library. If you had this set then the masters you imported were moved into the library and when you deleted them from Aperture you may have deleted your only copy of the masters.
IYou should check you original directory to see if those masters are still there. If you haven't yet empty the system trash yet they will be there.

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