Converting folders to albums

Hello,
I'm trying to migrate from iPhoto to Photos with the latest Yosemite update. I was never a fan of "Events" in iPhoto, but I went with it because it was the default. When I originally imported all my photos into iPhoto years ago it automatically created Events for each of my folders of pictures. I was hoping that importing a folder structure would do the same thing, but it appears not. I've gone back and edited my iPhoto library so that it is current and I can import it into Photos, but its going to create a weird split in my library based on May of 2015. Any new albums I create will appear in the album list, but all iPhoto Events that have been turned into albums will be in the nested folder. I used to have an Event titled "Misc" that I just stuck random stuff in which spans nearly a decade worth of dates... making Apple's Moments - Collections - Years hierarchy useless. Is there any way to make Photo recognize a folder structure in finder and turn each folder into an album at import? Or can you removed albums from the "Events from iPhoto" album in Photos? I don't understand Apple's insistence that all photos fall nicely into little date-dependent and related sets.
Thanks

You need to point to the project you want to import to. If you have the project selected that is what it defaults to. If none is selected it creates a new project.
jim

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