How does iPhoto organize originals under "show package contents"?

They used to be organized based on the name of my folder in iPhoto (year -> month -> folder name from iPhoto), but now there are many folders organized by year -> month -> day -> and then tons of folders titled by a series of numbers that make absolutely no sense to me. Is there a way to get the folders organized the way they used to be? Also, when I look into those folders, most of them are empty, some have one photo, and others have hundreds of photos. I just don't understand the way they are being organized. Thanks!

An empty folder has zero bytes so they don't take up any space at all like this one in my library.
There's nothing to worry about as far as they are concerned.
OT

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