Smart Album not working

Trying to set up a Smart Album that shows all pics not already in an album used to work but does not now. I keep a library for each year and trying to make sure only has pics for that year hence the smart album. If I select not in the album for the year that works but not if I sleet not in any. Any advice greatly appreciated.
thanks
Peter

Thanks again I think that Larry is correct and I shoudl put my albums back to gether again at least that way importing a single pic once fixes most of the difficulty.
Having all photos in one large library has many advantages. Most importantly, you can search all photos at once. Now you can only search one library at a time and cannot create albums, books, sideshows basd on all your pictures.
Have not tried Aperture yet and from what you say same porblem as iPhoto.
Not the same problem, but the same library format. That makes it easy to travel between the two worlds, and I am doing it frequently.
In Aperture this works without problems:
"Album name is not empty and does not contain 'Last Import'".
That confirmed my suspicion, that the "Last Import" library item is indeed a smart album and not an event.

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