Photo stream adding multiple empty Projects

In Aperture 3.3.2, with Mountain Lion I am using iCloud an the Photo Stream. Aperture has started adding empty Projects representing prior months from the Photo Stream. I can delete the Projects and when Aperture restarts, the Projects return. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the green mark, Bob. I appreciate it.
I wish I knew a solution that worked with automatic import. But it is highly erratic. One problem seems to be, is that Aperture recreates projects that I deleted long ago, if one of my other devices adds images to the PhotoStream again that originally came from the deleted projects. It is so random, that I turned automatic import off.
And frankly, nine out of 10 images that get automatically added to my stream are images that I do not want on either of my devices, so it saves a lot of work not to be forced to delete them, after an automatic download.
Have you looked at the iCloud forum? Perhaps you find a solution there?
Reagrds
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That will work, but it is the long way 'round.
As Frank noted, Book Albums are just specialized Albums. Albums can show any Image in your Library, regardless of where the Album is located on the Library Inspector, and regardless of which Project contains the Image. You can put your Albums anywhere (in a Folder called "Books" for example). You can put Images from anywhere in your Library in any Album.
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- Go to the "Flagged" container (listed near the top of the Library Inspector), select all, and drag-and-drop them to your Book Album.
- Repeat as needed, or just drag-and-drop directly into the Book Album.
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Note, too, that once the Images are in your Book Album, you then put them in the Book you are creating for publication. The Book Album contains the superset of Images with which you populate the Book itself. The Book Album also holds the Book.
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the chapter on making Books.
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Hmmm... not sure about PC but I did have this same problem while syncing to my MAC... the cause was that my contacts sync was conflicting with other sync data... Once I changed settings for Mobile Me with contacts and address book it was resolved...
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How can I see My Photo Stream from two Macs associated with the same Apple ID?

I have a MacBook Pro (my personal machine) and an iMac (our family computer).
The iPhoto library housing all of our family photos lives on the iMac.
The iPhoto library on my MacBook Pro is currently empty.
I have an account on both machines. I have associated the same Apple ID with both machines.
When I launch iPhoto on my MacBook Pro and attempt to turn on photo sharing (so that I can see My Photo Stream, as well as other shared streams), iPhoto informs me that "iCloud Photos for xxx@xxx is being used with another library named 'iPhoto Library'."
My iPhone, which is also affiliated with the same Apple ID, shows the streams just fine.
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I found out about this issue when I created a new library with some photo's I wanted to sync to my iCloud account. I found the following on the Fat Cat Software page and thought it might be helpful to others:
Using Photo Stream with multiple libraries
Starting in iPhoto 9.2, Apple introduced a new feature called Photo Stream, which lets you automatically transfer photos via their iCloud service between your iPhoto library and your other devices such as an iPhone, iPad, or another Mac. This feature works when you have multiple iPhoto libraries set up, but there are a couple things to be aware of.
First, iPhoto will only allow Photo Stream to be active in one iPhoto library at any given time. If you've already enabled Photo Stream in one library, but then open a second library and enable Photo Stream there, this will cause Photo Stream to be turned off in the first library.
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2. When I look in iTunes, all the affected Events have the same item count. The item count is correct for one project, but not the others. So, for example, I have 4 projects at the moment that won't sync, and all show in iTunes with an item count of 1. Only one project actually contains 1 photo, the rest have many more.
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Thanks.

As far as I can tell, my problems have been caused by me renaming the automatic import projects in Aperture. I did notice that Aperture kept creating new empty projects for the same month.
This solution from Jannem1970, posted on this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3585677?start=0&tstart=0, seems to have done the trick for me.
- turn off automatic import for Photo Stream;
- identify 'the ghost'-projectfolders, select and delete them;
- close Aperture (this saves the current setting and condition of your library);
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- turn on automatic import for Photo Stream.

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Here's some suggestions that may or may not satisfy what you want.
1. Turn off the automatic photo stream import setting in Aperture's preferences. Import the new photos manually from the photo stream to your yearly project. This should stop Aperture from automatically creating those projects.
2. Instead of creating a single yearly project to copy to, create a yearly folder and place all the photo stream projects inside the folder. When you select the folder in the library pane you will see all images for the year that are in the enclosed projects. If you collapse the folder it will act just like your yearly project when selected.
- Did you know? - You can rename the automatically created photo stream projects to anything you desire. Aperture will remember that they are the photo stream projects regardless of the name.
3. Place all the empty photo stream projects in a single folder and collapse the folder structure. That way you'll only need to see a single entry for those unwanted projects that keep coming back after deleting them.
4. Delete the photos from the photo stream for that month that have already been imported so Aperture doesn't find anything in the photo stream for that particular month. (I'm not sure about this one so if you try it please leave feedback on the results)
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With photostream on, it creates a project labelled "Nov 2011 Photo Stream" that is empty. I don't remember creating this project, but I can't swear that I didn't. I delete the project, but everytime I reopen Aperture, it is recreated. If I turn photostream off within Aperture, this behavior stops. Turn photostream back on in Aperture, the zombie project comes back.
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But why does it keep coming back? I understand if the current month is recreated again, but we are in January 2013 and I have Aug, Nov and Dec 2012 that keep reappearing, even though I've already moved the photos to other projects and deleted them.
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That's not quite true: on the Mac or PC, Photo Stream is supposed to store every image ever uploaded to the Photo Stream. At least on my Mac, Aperture creates a dedicated Photo Stream project for each month and downloads the pictures from the Photo Stream to the respective project.
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