Importing folders from other photo app

I'm a new Mac user and previously used Google's Picasa to organize my photos. Currently, everything is organized into dated/named folders and simply importing all those into iPhoto creates one LARGE library that's not divided by the defined folders I'd originally come up with. What's the best way to import them so they remain in their original albums?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Try View > Film Rolls with Library selected from the Source Pane. If you imported your folders of photos (with no subfolders) then you should see your folder names reflected as Film Roll names.
If your original folder structure contains subfolders, it is recommended to import from the lowest level of the structure. Despite what it says in iPhoto's Help, sometimes folders containing subfolders aren't imported properly, or are all dumped into one big film roll.
Regards.

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 Cheers, Tom

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HT204655 How do I move photos from the Photo app to another folder?

Before the photos app, I use to just plug my iPhone into my macbook and import my pictures to a selected folder in documents. I have all my photos stored from all my iPhones on my external hard drive. How do I do this now with the photos app? Im not brilliant with the macbook so might be simple for some so please can someone help? Thanks

You can continue t do that using Image Capture instead of importing into Photos - or you can import into Photos and go to the last import, select all and export tot he location of your wishes
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