Avoid modified and original folders

Hello,
I started to sort my pictures thanks to the roll rather than thanks to the albums. This way, I save times when archiving: no need to export all your albums, you can directly copy the sorted roll folders from your Iphoto library. Those folder can be directly open and your pictures viewed with any kind of software. My problem is the modified and original automatic folders, Because, I need to move the content of the modified pictures into the originals ones and replace the duplicate. It is the way I have found to merge the original and modified pictures of the same roll. Is there a way to avoid the creation of the modified folder. I would like to have all the picture of one roll in the same folder in my photo library. I could make duplicate of the picture I want to keep the original but with all the pictures in the same folder.
Thanks in advance.
Aude-Line

Hi, ohdelyne. What you are trying to do is substitute your own photo organizing scheme for the one that iPhoto imposes, and that enables iPhoto to function. If you do that, iPhoto won't function.
If you want the benefits that iPhoto offers, you must leave the contents of your iPhoto Library folder exactly as iPhoto has arrranged them. If you arrange them differently, you won't be able to use iPhoto at all, and you shouldn't try. Instead, use a different photo viewing application and do all your organizing manually.
Some Mac users find iPhoto's inflexible organizing scheme annoying or inconvenient for some purposes and perfectly acceptable for others. Such users (and I'm one) import some photos into iPhoto and let it organize them, and keep other photos in folder hierarchies they've created in the Finder, and use other applications to view, edit and manage them. This can be a fine alternative to handling all one's photos the same way. I have about 100,000 photos on my hard drives, and only about 20,000 of them have been imported into any of my ten iPhoto libraries.
Maintaining multiple iPhoto libraries for diffferent purposes or categories of pictures can also be very helpful in overcoming the disadvantages of not being able to alter the structure of a single all-encompassing iPhoto Library.
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