Photos refuses to import 3 of my iPhotos events?

Hi there
I'm banging my head against a wall right now, or so it feels like.
I had 36 events on my iPhotos collection (I usually sort my pics by events, I know this will not be possible in future on photos) but for some reason only 33 appear to be there when I open the new Photos application.
I've deleted the Photos library, reopened it using the iPhotos library waited a long time... only to have 33 again. Why does Photos keep ignoring the same 3 particular albums, it's always the same ones. Totally bizarre.
Apple is supposed to 'just work'... Not now it isn't!

I even went to the trouble of deleting the Photos library (Again), then putting my iPhoto pics that into Albums, then reopening Photos and importing from iPhotos AGAIN.
Those particular pics are STILL not there. The new albums are empty, and they do not show up on the Events list.
So f**k this, I've wasted hours of my time and I'm bloody annoyed, might as well go and buy a Windows PC if this is the way Apple is going......

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