Events in iPhoto 11 no longer sorted by date

Ever since November 3, 2012, added events in my iPhoto Library have not been added to the end, but to the top of the list of Events and further down. In April 2013, the Events began to be added from the top of the list again. The whole library becomes more and more messy. On the other hand, once I choose to view the photos by clicking the Photos library in the menu bar to the left of the iPhoto window, the photos align in the perfect order by date of shooting them.
However, I prefer to browse through my images in iPhoto using the Events view which is faster. I want to put it back in the old order — by date of the making of the photo — but that seems in vain.
I have tried (since the occurrence of the problem):
To upgrade to the newest version of iPhoto. Currently, I'm using iPhoto '11 (version 9.5 [902.7]) of 2013.
To upgrade to the newest version of the operating system. Currently, I'm using OS X version 10.9 (Mavericks) of 2013
To change hardware. I used to have MacBook 13'' (mid-2007). Currently, I have a MacBook Pro with a 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7

Uh-uh, I think there is an answer on page https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4565337.
The solution provided by LarryHN is:
In the Events view, go to Menu > View > Sort events. In the roll-down menu, select By date.
Repeat it, if you also want to choose between Ascending or Descending sorting order.
Sorry to have bothered you all.
Yours
Erik

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Is there anyway I can have this file organised by Events and not Dates?
No.
The strict link between the Events in the iPhoto Window and the folders in the Finder was broken with iPhoto 09 and no one outside of Apple knows why.
However, it shouldn't matter, because you ahould not be accessing the files inside the iPhoto Package File anyway - bluntly it's not a supported way of accessing the files.
Make Albums of the photos to view in other apps.
fwiw:
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
*For Users of 10.5 and later*
You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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(Note the above illustration is not a Finder Window. It's the dialogue you get when you go File -> Open)
You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
*For users of 10.4 and later* ...
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If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
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Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
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2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
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TD

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I have my photostream photos automatically imported to iPhoto on my iMac - so I have lots of "events" with names like March 2013 photostream or July 2014 photostream. In each of these events, there are often a whole group of photos that belong together - like a birthday party. There are also some "one off" photos that just one or two shots of something I wanted to photograph (like a couple of pictures of a rainbow, or a picture of a recipe that I like to have on hand so that I can shop for ingredients). I am not sure how these are supposed to be handled. I can leave them all in photostream and add key words to the photos so that I can search for them perhaps (but then I have to manage a lot of key words. I cannot just add a key word "Birthday Party" since I attend many birthday parties. I would have to use a key work like "Bob's 30th birthday party" unless I wasted my search to turn up every picture ever taken at any birthday party!) i can create an event and call it "Bob's 30th birthday party. That seems to work ok - although I'm not sure if I should be doing this. As for the other photos, like the two of the rainbow and the one of the recipe, I don't know what to do with them. I can leave them in photostream with keywords. I can create an entire event called "Recipes" although the range of dates on such a folder might be quite wide since I am always saving recipes, which means that when my events are sorted by date, my new recipes will appear in an early event along with the very first recipe I ever took a photo of!
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