"Event" free sorting of photos - by me, not by the software?

Question

iPhoto insists on asserting that the date of everything is important and grouping things into "events." This is defeating, or at least creating a huge hassle for, what I am doing with most of the pictures. I am either grouping things into large albums (family photos for 2007) or into projects I am working on where the pictures are taken over months and years. How can I eliminate or minimize events? I would love to simply delete them. I don't find any way to tell iPhoto not to do this or to get it to use a broad definition of time (like a year) to group things this way if it must. I've considered just putting all imports into one event - does that create a greater risk of file corruption messing me up?

Answer 1

You can manually sort photos in photo mode (turn event titles off)
BUT - to me it sound like albums and folders are exactly what you are looking for - make a Family folder containing albums for each family member and another one for each year - a work folder containing an album for each project, etc
Then just pretend that event do not exist and only work with the albums in the appropriate folders
If you want all the photos in one event that should not be a problem but I see no reason to bother - just use the albums/folders and ignore the events totally
Just my thoughts
Larry Nebel