Migrating back to iPhoto from Aperture: help?

After giving Aperture the ole college try, I've decided it's more complex than I need (and my MacBook Pro evidently continues to struggle with it's memory demands).
What's the easiest way of transferring all the photos I subsequently imported into Aperture into iPhoto?
In iPhoto I went to File>Show Aperture Library and dragged an Aperture project into iPhoto and the pictures appeared to now be in iPhoto. Is that all I need to do?
Just wondering if after I delete Aperture if I'll end up having duplicate photos stored on my computer.
Thanks
Message was edited by: Argelius

Sounds like you have discovered how to migrate the photos yourself.
By importing via iPhoto you have just exported a whole number of jpegs into your iPhoto library (that is the name of the file - you can find it in the pictures folder of your home directory). These jpegs will be at the resolution that was set in your Aperture preferences.
Once you are sure of your transition all you need to do is find your aperture library file - also in the pictures folder - and delete this.
Might I recommend making a backup copy of your Aperture library (before you delete it) somewhere like an external drive. Aperture can do this easily for you using it's vault settings. This way if you ever come back to the fold your photos will be in their original glory (RAW perhaps) and not constrained to the jpeg export settings that iPhoto has access to.

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