Setting up Photostream in Aperture

I have already set up iCloud to work with my iPhone and iPad. On these, it works perfectly. However, I wanted also to load iPhone photos to my iMac and see them in Aperture, via the Photostream option.
My problem is that the system seems stuck in a rather unhelpful loop. When I try to turn on Photostream in Aperture's preferences, I get a screen telling me I need to migrate my account to iCloud and be signed in to my iCloud account in System Preferences. But I have already done that, and I am already signed in. Signing out and back in again, restarting all my IOS devices etc makes no difference. Every time I try to go in and turn on Photostream in Aperture, I am asked to migrate my account and reminded that I need to sign in to iCloud before I can open Photostream.
Any suggestions, please? Everything else I want to work under iCloud already works perfectly, but Apertur seems unable to recognise that I am already signed in, and is therefore not turning Photostream on.
Thanks.
Tom

I just export it somewhere and then drag that picture to the well in system preferences.
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