Importing Folders and SubFolders, Maintaining Structure

Hello,
I'm a former PC user with thousands of photos. I like iPhoto and have used it for doing some minor editing and printing. The interface is very easy to use, except when it comes to organization. The events feature is a nice idea, but I don't always organize my photos that way. I have copied all of my photos from my PC to my Mac hard drive (in the Pictures) area of the Finder. In that view, they've maintained my organizational structure which is very important for me to be able to navigate quickly and work with photos. Previously (on the PC) I was using ACDSee which also utilized this same folder/subfolder/subfolder hierarchy. It made it very easy so my photo organizer/viewer mirrored what was stored on my HD. iPhoto is not as transparent in this regard and so I'm leery to import my thousands of photos. Specifically, my HD folder organization looks something like this:
Finder
_Pictures
_House folder
___Minnesota house folder
______Before Remodeling folder
______Furniture folder
______Landscaping folder
______Remodeling in progress folder
_________Photo 1
_________Photo 2
_________Photo 3
___Lake house folder
___Childhood house folder
___Grandparents house folder
_Travel folder
___Europe 2001 folder
___Europe 2002 folder
___Europe 2003 folder
___Barcelona folder
______Granada folder
______Madrid folder
_________Photo 1
_________Photo 2
_________Photo 3
______Paris folder
and so on...
This may seem like an old school way to organize photos in light of the magic of iPhotos and events, but it makes a lot of sense to me since not all of my photos are ordered by event, but rather "category" and "sub-category".
How can I import my current photos into iPhoto and maintain this organization? I'm guessing there's a way to do it manually, but for the hundreds of folders/subfolders and thousands of pictures I have, I really don't have the time to do it manually.
Thanks for any and all advice.
PS - I took a screen capture of my folder view in Finder, but don't know how to attach it to this post. Anyway, the structure above pretty much describes it.
Cheers,
-jobber

jobber:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The short answer is no. Each folder of image files will be imported as one event (if you have the Events preferences set as shown here). However, you can create virtual folders within iPhoto to put other folders and albums inside them. Folders can hold other folders, albums, slideshows, etc., but not photos themselves. Albums can just photos. Here's what it might look like.
The only application that can do what you want is something like iView MediaPro which is not Expression Media from Microsoft. iVMP is considered to be the best DAM (Digital Asset Management) application at the current time by many professional photographers.
iPhoto is designed to manage photos by date. You set the time span for each event, 1 day, 1 week, 4 hrs or 8 hrs, and iPhoto will arrange the imports into appropriately grouped events (except for photos being imported from the Finder as mentioned earlier).
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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