I am confused by how the photos are stored in the iphoto folders

Question

I peeked into the iPhoto library to see how the photos are organized in the file system. I found that most of my photos are placed in date folders. But some folders are named after the events. In some cases, the folder names match some of the older events that I used, but since then, I have merged some events into one. e.g. iPhoto created one event for each day of my week long vacation. But after I came home, I merged all daily events into one big vacation event. So some of the daily event names no longer apply. However, I found that my photos are still in those folders. How can I tell iPhoto to organize these photos into date folder like the other photos?
I am trying to draw an analogy with iTunes. In iTunes, if I check the option to keep all the songs organized, all the songs will be relocated into a nice folder structure. I'd like to do something similar in iPhoto.

Answer 1

How can I tell iPhoto to organize these photos into date folder like the other photos?
You can't. This changed with iPhoto 09 and no one knows why.
I am trying to draw an analogy with iTunes. In iTunes, if I check the option to keep all the songs organized, all the songs will be relocated into a nice folder structure. I'd like to do something similar in iPhoto.
Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
The analogy with iTunes will always be limited for the simple reason that iTunes has no editing, no version control and no thumbnails. In fact the two libraries have pretty much nothing in common.
Regards
TD