IPhoto backup with Library manager - folder ****

Hi there. Trying to find Terence Devlin, as he'd kindly offered suggestions to my plight Feb 2010!! ("re: Rolls organisation gone afer re-install of iPhoto 5")
I'd installed iLife 6, and the subsequent upgrade eliminated all my named folders in iPhoto (of various trips etc).
After MUCH procrastination, I've bitten the bullet, bought a fab new external HD, and launched iPhoto Library Manager (as you suggested), and held my breath.
I think it's done the trick :-) ... BUT I have a question.
As the photos were backing up (with a new name on the external HD), they seemed to be going over in groups - similar to the folders of events I'd previously set up.
I wanted to launch iPhoto (holding the option key down and choosing new library on the external HD) to check .. and the photos are pretty well in the mess they are in on the computer; there are some folders with names, but the majority of the photos (which all had been in folders of their own before the horrendous software upgrade) are in one folder.
OK, I found them and they are intact ... BUT, how is it that they APPEARED to ge going over in lumps, only to be copied in date folders?
I thought there must be some preference to select to keep the folder name, as the iPhoto tendency to store by month + day is quite horrible.
Also, if I want to import them into another program (like a Canon software that comes with a camera instead of iPhoto), how do I do that?
Can't say i'm having much fun with iPhoto .. but think it's got a lot to do with user-inability!
Many thanks.
Claudia (cbdynamo)

Which function in iPhoto Library Manager are you using to backup? Is it the File ➙ Duplicate Library menu option?
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