ITunes will not preserve directly structure for transferred photos

Question

I have a large number of photographs that I have transferred to my IPod 5G. On my computer hard drive, the photos are organized into a folder for each year (i.e. 2004, 2005) and then those folders contain subfolders for each month in that year. When I synced the photos with my IPod, the subdirectories for each of the months did not copy over, so all the photos are in one giant folder for each year. This makes finding photos in the IPod very difficult, as I have to scroll through all the photos taken in 2005 (hundreds) before I can find the ones from this Christmas (the individual files are sorted by date). Any suggestions as to how I could make sure the whole directory structure is transferred to the IPod?

Answer 1

The photo support in the iPod is based stongly on iPhoto. By default, years are natural folders in iPhoto. Although in iPhoto 6, you can also look by month, it doesn't create a virtual photo representing that. However if you create a folder in iPhoto, say Christmas 2005, that does get transferred properly to the iPod & thus gives the functionality you are looking for.
It sounds like you're using the sync folder method, rather than using a host app, like Adobe Elements or Album. In that method here's what the docs say:
You can sync all of the photos in a selected folder, or only photos in specific folders inside the selected folder. Folders inside the selected folder will be displayed as photo albums on the iPod , but subfolders beneath them will not be.
More details here