Missing picture

Hi people, I need your help!!
I'm using Aperture 3.5.1 now, when I inport photo from somewhere else in to the library, everthing look good. But if I delete the original folders before I quit Aperture, the photos I just saw into the library will disappear.
I have to quit Aperture before I delete the original folder in order to get the photos really into the Aperture library.
Is this some kind of bug? Or it just has to be done that way?
Oh ya, I'm not sure this is a connection but sometimes the photos I imported will show double in one or two of them. I delete any one of them, the second one will also left from my library. However, I just ignore it and reopen the Aperture, eveything back to the normal; no more double photos.
Thank you for your time.

Just adding to Kirby's recommendation -  I am not quite sure, how you are importing and how long you have waited, after starting the "Import".
But if I delete the original folders before I quit Aperture, the photos I just saw into the library will disappear.
Have you seen the "Import completed" message, before you deleted the imported folder?  Aperture is importing in the background - the items will not actually have been imported, until you are seeing this message.
You can check the progress of the import in the Activity window:  From the main menu bar - Window > Show Activity.

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