IPhoto Albums converted to Photos Albums Question

Still confused about Albums after conversion in Photos. If there is a logical explanation, please share,
I see all my Albums from iPhoto including the Events folder in Photos, but the most recent Album created in iPhoto now has 654 items vs the Album in iPhoto that has 489. It seems all/most of the pictures from the related Events were sorted into this Photos Album although they are also showing in Events.
The Album version saved as a Slideshow in iPhoto is exactly the same as in iPhoto though.
Does anyone know what could be going on here?

I went into the photo section and backed up all of the photos by coping them to the EHD. My question is that I deleted the photos I no longer wanted in iphoto because they are now on the EHD.
The key to answering is how did you "back up all of the photos" - did you drag the iPhoto library to the EHD or exactly how did you copy all of the photos?
If I were to back up again the same way, wouldn't I lose the photos that I deleted because it would copy over the iphoto library?
That depends on the answer to the questions above
Maybe it would create a iphoto2 library??
If you copied the library by dragging it then you would need to use a new name for each new copy
Is there someway to easily take the events and make them into folders so that you can just move stuff around freely??
select the photos in an event and export them to a folder with the same name - file menu ==> export
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