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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1630045">Actually, iPhoto does in fact sort photos in EXACTLY the manner you describe -- year, month, event. It does not automatically go the extra step in tagging who took the photo, but that can be done fairly easily with keywords or through "smart albums" of photos taken by a particular camera.However, if you prefer to manage the pictures yourself, you can certainly do that in iPhoto. Just uncheck the "add photos to iPhoto Library" and instead its library will only add a reference marker to wherever you have them stored, and will not rearrange the actual photos. I'm not sure if you can do this "mid-stream," however, and you may need to start a new Library file (you can have as many as you like) that's set by default to leave the photo organization up to you -- I've always been perfectly happy with iPhoto's method, since it is the same one I've always used -- year/month/event.More importantly, however is that the main concept behind iPhoto's default behaviour is that it really doesn't matter how iPhoto internally organizes the pictures -- you can view them in nearly any way you like, though the default is by events (photos taken at roughly the same time auto-grouped together).To me, this is a far smarter way of doing things -- on-the-fly, for example, I can find every picture I've ever taken of a relative, either automatically by using the "Faces" feature or being diligent about tagging photos with that person in them with a keyword of their name. That way, the same photo can be in multiple albums and I don't have to decide if I want to re-organize my entire collection just to have all the "Uncle Bob" pictures in one place or not. The iPhoto program can present to me a view of my photos by nearly any criteria imaginable -- through Smart Albums, for example, I could have a view that showed me all photos taken on a specific Nikon where the flash was used between May of 2001 and September of 2004!</blockquote>

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