Can iPhoto events be converted en masse into individual albums in Photos?

So far as I can tell, the new Photos software does not allow photos to be organized into events, as in iPhoto. It seems that albums could serve the same purpose, though I may have that wrong too. If I'm going to be making albums now out of what I used to call events, I'd like to be able to simply convert all my old events into albums of their own. Could someone tell me how to do that? (I see that I have a single album that includes all my old events; what I am trying to do is prevent those from being segregated away once I begin to collect albums of the pictures I take in the future.)

(I'd rather continue with iPhoto, but it'll be such a pain now to revert to OS X 10.10.2).
iPhoto works very well with MacOS X 10.10.3. If you prefer to use iPhoto, continue to use it. Or did you uninstall it? If not, iPhoto should still be in your Applications folder. And if it is already version 9.6.1, you can simply drag it to the Dock and launch it.
If your iPhoto version is an earlier version, update to version 9.6.1, see this user Tip:
Update as described here:
Get iPhoto 9.6.1 if you didn't update before OS... | Apple Support Communities
The main idea is to move the iPhoto app to the Trash, so Spotlight does not see it as installed, reload the AppStore, and then to try to download again from the App Store - from your Purchases tab, not from the main page, since you can neither buy iPhoto nor update it, but you can reinstall, if your AppleID is associated with it.

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AndreTheGeek,
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williamfromwellingb wrote:
please help!!
That's normally not a helpful information.
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