Album Folders Still in FIle Structure

After upgrading computers and importing my library there are still album folders in the file structure menu. I can go to Pictures/iPhoto Library/albums... and see album folders that no longer exist in iPhoto. Can I delete them safely?
Thanks

Here's the thing, I want that album folder in my IPhoto Library, and after I installed iLife 05 it disappeared. I used that to keep track of what I uploaded onto snapfish etc. How can I get it back?
Thanks,
M

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This is a little like the "disappeared library" problem that someone else reported, but my library looks OK. It's just that several years worth of photos have disappeared (i.e. folders show as empty).
A quick check into the library folder suggests that originals and modifieds are still there. There seems to be a "disconnect" in linking the library structure to the contents.
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Thanks for the prompt reply, TD...
You've come close to describing my situation, but I don't see the solution.
In my case I have the following in my iPhoto folder (quite similar to your list...
In my case I have folders labelled 2001 through 2007 in my Originals folder, and the same for Modified, although oddly enough there's no 2002. It's possible that I didn't make mods for that full year, but doubtful.
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OK, you've explained that well, but here is the real problem. If I can call that thing on the left of my screen a Table of Contents, I have folders labelled by year, Last 6 rolls, Last 18 months and dozens that I have created myself... plus some slide shows. That whole structure seems intact from the way I left it before things went wrong.
The issue is that it's the most recent years.. 2006, 2007 have (0) beside them and don't show any photos when clicked on. The same is true of all of the folders (albums) I've created with pictures from those years.
I can see from a file listing of 2006/2007 that I have 3GB of photos in Originals and another 1 GB on Modified. Sampling the photos in Preview shows that they're OK as far as I can tell. What I'm calling the Table of Contents simply isn't accessing them.
Hopefully you have a simpler solution for me, but what would happen if I did an import on the 2006 and 2007 files? I suppose the 100 or so albums I've created would all have to be created???
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File structure iPhoto

Hello forum,
is there by any chance sombody reading this forum who might be able to tell whether there is even the slightes chance that iPhoto would change its file structure in order to keep my own finder file structure?
iPhoto would be perfect if it would simple scan any folder I tell it too (similar like googles picasa) AND offer the possibility to archive my pictures on DVD/CD ROM, keeping a thumbnail of each archived picture with the information of the new location of the original file (like iView does)
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Unfortunately you can't mirror your folder system exactly in iPhoto. Each folder or group of files you import will be placed in a roll. If imported from a folder the roll will have the same title as that folder.
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Back in the day, Aperture would create an "Aperture Library" file and throw all of my photos into the library. Well that was horrible. It made iPhoto look brilliant, because you could simply organize your photos in folders by date. However iPhoto would create proxies (small files for thumbnails) and throw a ton of additional little files into directories and gummed up the whole works.
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I tried trashing my iphoto plist from preferences and now have lost all my album folders which have very important projects sets I'm working on. I didn't empty the trash so I still have the folder but putting it back didn't seem to work. Is there a way to get my albums back. Help please! It's kind of important for me.

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How does this file structure in Aperture work in terms of hierarchy ? It certainly isn't structured the way the Finder is or any other file system I have seen to date. Creating folders, organizing them and bringing any type of data into these folders should be a simple process but in Aperture it doesn't seem to be.
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Regarding your specific problem I suggest treating each existing dated folder of image files as a single Project in Aperture. In Aperture a Project is a specific time-based concept that may or may not jive with what you previously considered a project. For instance I may have in my mind that shooting all the highest peaks in every state is a "project," but that would be inappropriate as an Aperture Project. Instead each peak might be a Project, but the pix of all the peaks would be pointed to as an Album.
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Another approach is to use a folder "Family" for family pix, a folder "Flowers" for flowers pix and another folder "Work" for work pix. IMO such folders usage is a very poor approach to using an images database (probably stemming from old paper or film work practices). Note that one cannot put an image with family in a field of flowers at a work picnic in all three folders; but it is instant with keywords.
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