Folders in Adobe elements 11

I have hundreds of folders, some with a few photos in each. I would like to have one folder for each year. I cannot work out how to amalgamate different folders into one folder.
thank you for any help.

As an alternative to this process, you might want to consider not organizing chronologically at all. In my opinion, using tags, captions and notes, which describe the content of the photo, provides a much better organization than chronological organizing, and so all this moving of photos from one folder to another seems like a sub-optimal and inefficient use of time.
Why do I recommend this alternative? Because most (all?) people can remember the content of the photo — and thus you can remember the tag(s) a lot easier than remembering what year something was photographed. I have over 20,000 photos and I certainly don't remember the year they were all taken, but I remember the content. If you were to look me right in the eye and tell me that you remember the year that all of your thousands of photos were taken, I'd look you right back in the eye and say "I don't believe you, prove it". If I want to find that picture of the kids at the beach — I have no idea what year it was, but if I search for photos with tags Kids and Beach, I find it quickly and I don't have to remember the year it was taken.

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Please empty your card and add 1-2 images to it. Now launch Photodownloader.exe from the location : C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Elements 11 Organizer
Post doing this, launch Organizer. Let's see if the import happens.
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By default, yes, but you can set iPhoto not to. But note: a: What Happens when you do - for instance, that various versions of the files will not be available except through iPhoto, which will confuse your proposed system, and b: The various caveats to running a Referenced Library.
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I've yet to see a good reason to run iPhoto in referenced mode unless you're using two photo organiser
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Set Elements as an External Editor in iPhoto: You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
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TD

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my Windows Elements photos are organized by date, with a separate folder for each date; the photos under each date just have numerical sequence number.
This kind of organisation is pretty pointless in iPhoto. With the date tool you can find all the pics taken on any day/Month/year with a click. With Smart Albums you can find any pics within a particular date range and so on.
I would prefer to have a structure organized with a folder for each event and each photo within the event folder prefixed by event name then a sequential number, e.g. NewYork folder with pics NewYork001, etc.Can I implement a structure like this in iPhoto and if so how?
Yes you can title the photos (Photos -> Batch Change) and add a sequential number to them. But note that the basic organising Element in iPhoto is The Album. Photos go in Albums, Albums can be in Folders and so on. But Folders don't actually contain photos, only Albums.
Note to: +Adding a Title does not rename files+ The filename is of no concern in iPhoto. You can export from iPhoto using the title as a filename for the Photo, should you need to.
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I keyword on a
Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
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Robert Bell
Are you reading just the email notifications and responding to them via your computer email? If so, any of the email notifications ending up in the Junk mail. Hope not. The following is post 16 for which I was awaiting results....
16. Re: adobe elements 9
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Robert Bell
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Users
Owner
AppData
Roaming
Adobe
Premiere Elements
9.0
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ATR

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