Organizing photos on itouch

Hi, I have organized photos on my PC with multiple levels of folders so that I can navigate and find photos quickly. When I synch with the itouch, it looks like I can have only one level of folders - I would think there must be some way to have multiple folder levels on your itouch?
Thanks for any insight

Has anyoneelse out there been able to organize their photos in multiple folder levels on the touch?

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Hello,
This is a fairly broad question, I know, but I've been researching for almost a full week and still at a loss as to what to do, so I thought some of the kind souls on here might be able to cut thru the forest of info out there to help me.
I vetoed iPhoto long ago but am now interested in trying it out & testing it against Picasa. However, I have a fairly large photo library that I keep on NAS, and definitely want to keep it there. Basically the research I've been doing has scared me, with all the horror stories about mixed libraries and the dangers of referenced libraries (which is what I was thinking would probably be the way to go), so now I'm a bit frozen.
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
A long question with, I'm afraid, a short answer.
a fairly large photo library that I keep on NAS, and definitely want to keep it there.
Stick with what you have. iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, saving edits and sharing the photos. That pretty much rules out having a Managed Library on that NAS.
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My photos are currently folder-organized, mostly by date, but the level above date is by major categories (such as child's name, etc). I realize the date organization becomes redundant if I migrated to iPhoto, and even the categories seem redundant too if I can tag them all instead, etc.
Here's a fast way to tag them:
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You can work through your images quite fast in this way.
Alternatively, use an app like Keyword Manager which has Nested Tags as a feature. So, for instance, you can set a hierarchy: John is your Son so tagging 'John' will also add a 'Family' tag and so on. In my case I have tags like 'Seattle' that add 'Washington State' 'U.S' and 'Travel' to the pics. WIth auto completion all I have to type is Sea...
but my impression is that to achieve what I'm trying to, I would need to import the entire library into local iPhoto library FIRST, then go backwards and migrate that iPhoto libary back onto NAS
No, all you need to di is start a Library, then move it to an appropriately formatted disk. You don't need to complete the Library first.
we have an iMac & a MBP, and would love to be able to share the NAS library on our respective iPhotos, and be able to keep "sync'd" up to what the other has done.
Again, noting that the NAS is not the way to go here, you can simply enable iPhoto Sharing or use the same Library with both machines - very easy.
I know that these a pretty short answers, and by all means post back if we can be more helpful.
Regards
TD

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Correct, it will only be one-level, the Photos app doesn't support sub-albums - the sub-folders photos will be included in the parent's album.
If you select My Pictures at the top of the Photos tab when syncing, then you should get an album for each folder that is directly under it - so if I understand correctly what you described then that would mean an album for 2013, one for 2012 etc. And each of those should include all the photos in the subfolders under it - so 2013 would include the photos from the events and months subfolders under it.
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I recently converted from a PC. I had thousands of photos on my PC; they were organized into general categories (trips, baby, etc.), which were subdivided into event folders (date and name), which were further subdivided into folders such as RAW, emails, etc. I want to import them into iphoto, and it seems that I cannot import this structure directly. I have determined that the best way to import and roughly maintain the structure is to manually create folders and subfolders using my old naming conventions and then import the images into albums named RAW, edits, that are placed in each subfolder. Any other ideas would be appreciated. However . . .
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The easiest way to rapidly recreate your folder structure in iPhoto is to
1. Start at the bottom of your Folder heirarchy and drag a folder of images to the Left-Hand (or Source) pane in iPhoto. There iPhoto will import the pics and create an album of the same name.
2. Then create the enclosing folders in iPhoto (File -> New Folder) and drag the albums to them.
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As you have the photos already theme based - use Keywords as you import the pics to further enhance your Smart Albums.
So, want to create an Album of pics from John's various Birthday Parties? Well, keyword on the who, what and where basis (When is there already in the Exif data) > John, Birthday, and create a SMart Album. If you're going to use Keywords - and you should - you'll find Keyword Manager very useful.
As for intracting with Aperture, it has a facility to import iPhoto Libraries. You can export (file -> export) individual pics, albums etc, to Folders to recreate something like the structure that you now have, but also you can add the keywords to the files on export too.
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