3 Copies of Pictures?

When I import my pictures from my camera into iPhoto it looks like it makes three different copies of the pictures. When I go into the actual files through the finder into the iPhoto Library, there is folders named "Data", "Originals", and "Modified". There are copies of every picture in each of the folders. This doesn't make too much sense to me. I have over 4000 pictures in there, each weighing in at about 3MB a piece. Triple that, and you have alot of space taken up. Is is supposed to do this? Am I safe to delete the data and modified folders? Maybe there is a setting to shut this off. Thanks in advance.
firewired

fire-wired:
What you're getting is a thumbnail file in the Data folder, the original file in the Originals/roll subfolder and, if it was a vertical photo on a camera with the auto-rotate capability, a rotated version in the Modified/roll subfolder.
The thumbnails are only about 50 kb each. You'll only get the modified files on those auto-rotated files and any you edit within iPhoto. So you will have two of every photo and 3, at the beginning, of those auto-rotated images. As you edit you'll get more in the modified folder but can get rid of the modified file by using the Revert to Original menu option (it doesn't work on the auto-rotated files).

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