Exporting albums as folders

Is there a way I can export all of my albums as folders? I'm hoping there's an Applescript that can do it.
Also, in order to ensure that absolutely all of my photos have been exported I would need a script to locate any photos currently not in any folder and move them to a new album.
i'm using iPhoto 5.0.4.

You type in your script actions (unix command line knowledge required).
Unfortunately that requires more than what most of us are knowledgeable in.
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I'm having a lot of problems with exporting masters with folders (albums).
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I chose "Project Name / Folder Name" in "folder naming presets" but he created folder only for project and not for albums.
All I want to do is select an project, export masters and have the same folder structure in finder.
What I'm doing wrong?
Is not Project->Albums right workflow ?
I have some two months projects with hounders of Albums and more than 10000 images. It would be very time consuming creating all this folders and arranging images in finder again.
I would be really glad if someone could help me with this.
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I also wanted to do the same for a long time, because that used to be the way I worked before using aperture, but ultimately, it doesn't really matter that much. If you export your masters with xmp sidecars, you can easily search them with any other dam software, or even find the xmp's (and hence the image) with spotlight.
I think the reason why you can't use album names while exporting is that albums are an arbitrary collection of images. You can have an album in one project containing images of another one, for example. There's also no way to avoid duplicates on export when exporting albums.
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j

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Welcome to the  Discussion Forums
The tv can use events as well as albums, although this doesn't resolve the OP's issue, which is simply one of a large number of photo albums. I have a lot of photo albums (without checking, I think I have around 250) and scrolling through them can be challenging.
What I do is to keep albums organised into groups such as 'Holidays', 'Weddings' etc and introduce a specific character at the start of the album title, which indicates which group the album belongs to.
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I am wondering if there is a simple way to export photos from lightroom into seperate folders based on collections.
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is there any way to do this without having to learn code or install plug-ins?
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Terence,
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But here where I ned further guidance.. Not quite there.
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