Solved my iPhoto import problems!

I have a large iPhoto database of about 35,000 photos, taking up about 160gb. I imported the iPhoto database into Aperture 3 and suddenly only had 8000 photos....Hmmm!
I tried leaving them in the iPhoto library and tried moving them to the A3 library and no matter what I did - I always ended up with about 8k photos. I never had any crashes, just never had a accurate A3 library.
After reading through a lot of threads, I realized I'm not the only one having issues while importing from iPhoto. I finally decided to backup my iPhoto library and then let iPhoto rebuild the library database (which took about 4 hours). After rebuilding the iPhoto library... iPhoto seems much snappier and much quicker than before.
I'm now reimporting my new iPhoto library into A3 and it IS SEEING all 35k photos. Also, I can tell this is going to take a while and it's going to need to run overnight... We'll see what happens in the morning, but it looks like all 35k photos are finally going to make into the A3 library. Hope this helps someone...

I have been getting the same problem. I have fewer photos, so rebuilding my iPhoto library didn't take too long. I tried re-importing the iPhoto library into a new AP3 library, but to no avail. I'm still only getting 17% of my library imported, and the faces and places tags are still screwed up.
Please let me know if this worked for you.

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