Photo album duplicates on iphone

Question

I created a folder with the pictures I want to store on the iPhone. I then selected this folder to sync in iTunes. However, now on my iPhone, the folder is duplicated, so I have the same 61 photos in a album called Photo Library, and an album called iPhone (which is the album or folder i created in iTunes).
Any suggestion on how I can undo/fix this?
thanks!

Answer 1

This is the way iphoto stores photos. It is not really duplicating the photos, it is just creating a reference to them.
Iphoto has one big bin or bucket that it holds all the photos in, then when you create an album, it creates a reference to those photos instead of copying them to a new location and creating a duplicate. So, when you add photos to iphoto it always goes to the photo library and then references them to your album.
On the iPhone it is doing the same thing. it has photo library which has all your photos not matter what album or folder they are in, except camera roll. Then it is treating your folder you did a sync to as your album and creating a reference to the pictures in photo library.
iTunes also works in this fashion. All your music is kept in your music library and then when you create a playlist, it references the music you move instead of creating a new music file.