Duplicate photo, events, and album questions...

I'm trying to better understand my iPhoto album and how to clean it up so I have a few questions that should help me out.
1) When deleting events, do the photos in those events get deleted from the library and from any albums they are in?
2) I am finding there are many duplicates spread out across many events, when I only imported those photos from my phone once. What's the best way to import photos so I don't end up with duplicates?
3) Is there any way to not have any events?
4) When importing, does iPhoto split photos into events based on the day the photo was taken, or based on the day I import into iPhoto.
So far, I think that's all.

1) When deleting events, do the photos in those events get deleted from the library and from any albums they are in?
Yes if you empty the iPhoto trash and the system trash. And if you have a default managed library
2) I am finding there are many duplicates spread out across many events, when I only imported those photos from my phone once. What's the best way to import photos so I don't end up with duplicates?
Are you seeing this in iPhoto? If so please describe your work flow in detail
3) Is there any way to not have any events?
No. Events is one view of your library. You can ignore events but you must have them.
4) When importing, does iPhoto split photos into events based on the day the photo was taken, or based on the day I import into iPhoto.
The split into events is determined by your settings in the iPhoto preferences
LN

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Album -> Is not -> Any
will find them for you.
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Events = CD's, plain and simple.
Great analogy! May I then add,
Albums = playlists
I see people here asking why a photo can't be in an album and in No event; perhaps the iTunes analogy would be helpful to them. If you don't have the song in your library (because you don't have that CD) then you can't put it in a playlist. (Nevermind that you can download single songs now - it doesn't fit the analogy. Remember when you had to buy the hard copy.)
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
When I load new pictures to iphoto how can I add them to existing events?
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When I create albums do the pictures I put in there get "copied" or are they just linking to the originals in events? I don't want to rack up all my memory creating albums.
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Want to see inside: Right click on the Library icon and go 'Show Package Contents'. A Finder window opens with the Library exposed.
Standard Warning: Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
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*For Users of 10.5 Only*
You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
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*For users of 10.4 and 10.5* ...
Many internet sites such as Flickr and SmugMug have plug-ins for accessing the iPhoto Library. If the site you want to use doesn’t then some, one or any of these will also work:
To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. However, if you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
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