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First time importing of Photos into iPhoto 11
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1258099"><p>You are not grasping iPhoto. iPhoto organizes the photos internally (by EXIF date as it happens, but that's really pretty irrelevant), and then presents the library of photos to you in a variety of ways, absolutely none of which effect in any way whatsoever how they are organized internally.</p><p></p><p>In other words, Events, Places, Faces and Photos are all just different ways of looking at the exact same material. You can also sort photos by star rating, by keyword, by title and even (within albums) do your own totally random manual sort if you like. None of it makes the slightest different to iPhoto, as it doesn't affect how the photos are organized on the disk at all.</p><p></p><p>Your best bet is to simply create Albums that correspond to the "folders" you had set up, and populate them manually as you like through drag and drop. If you know the dates when the photos were taken, you can adjust the "time stamp" on them so that Events (which could also be called "the group-by-date view") handles them properly. If you don't know the dates, simply ignore the Events view and stick to the Albums.</p><p></p><p>Again, what you put in what album and in which order has no bearing whatsoever on how they are actually organized within iPhoto (and unless you enjoy losing data, DO NOT try to mess with iPhoto's internal organization!). All presentations on a computer are layers of abstraction; iPhoto takes more advantage of this than most other programs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1258099"] You are not grasping iPhoto. iPhoto organizes the photos internally (by EXIF date as it happens, but that's really pretty irrelevant), and then presents the library of photos to you in a variety of ways, absolutely none of which effect in any way whatsoever how they are organized internally. In other words, Events, Places, Faces and Photos are all just different ways of looking at the exact same material. You can also sort photos by star rating, by keyword, by title and even (within albums) do your own totally random manual sort if you like. None of it makes the slightest different to iPhoto, as it doesn't affect how the photos are organized on the disk at all. Your best bet is to simply create Albums that correspond to the "folders" you had set up, and populate them manually as you like through drag and drop. If you know the dates when the photos were taken, you can adjust the "time stamp" on them so that Events (which could also be called "the group-by-date view") handles them properly. If you don't know the dates, simply ignore the Events view and stick to the Albums. Again, what you put in what album and in which order has no bearing whatsoever on how they are actually organized within iPhoto (and unless you enjoy losing data, DO NOT try to mess with iPhoto's internal organization!). All presentations on a computer are layers of abstraction; iPhoto takes more advantage of this than most other programs. [/QUOTE]
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