Mac vs PC file appearance

Is it me, or is the file tab (where you see and work with all
your files) seem a little confusing on my Mac compared with my
friend's on his PC? Being in outline form, folders within folders,
seems to lay it out much better on my friend's. Unless everything
is in a folder on the Mac it can look like it's in the folder
directly above it when in reality it is in the one even above that.
Not a big deal but bad design.

By default iPhoto copies your photos to the iphoto library - it is VERY strongly recommended that you do no change this
See iPhoto and File Management
iPhoto is a photo manager and totally replaces the finder (a file manager) for your photos - see - this is conceptually must different than a file based management system
Assuming that you have a default managed library then you can delete any photos that have imported into iPhoto - although I personally would leave them on the PC as an additional backup
LN

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