Help al my pictures are in one folder how do i automatically organize them,

somehow when i imported everyting from my od g4 powerbook to my spanking new macbook, all the pcitures got stuck into one folder. can i automaticaly sort them into folders by month? also is there any way to automatically search for and delete duplicates (i have baout 10,000 pictures right now and in reality only about a third are original. everything is in there two or three times. thanks

Peter
To move a library from an old machine to a new machine:
Simply copy the old Library to the Pictures Folder in your new machine and launch iPhoto. There is no importing involved.
When you imported the old library you lost all the albums and imported all the duplication.
Do you still have the old library? Then trash the new one and start over.
Regards
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