PSE 12 renames my imported photo folders?

Hi, I'm new to Photoshop and elements.  I downloaded a trial version of PSE 12 to my mac, and imported my photo folders.  It looks like PSE has renemed all my folder with strings of letters and characters.  How can I retrieve my original folder names, or figure out how to identify the folders PSE has created? Thanks so much for your help.

Ok, so I'm trying to deduce what has happened...I now see that (relief) my orginal folder names are mixed in with all the (many) newly created folders with the jumbled names, and the new folders represent duplicate sets.  This seems to be because of iphoto, which I think I need to delete altogether--never liked it.  It was extremely confusing bc when I did the 'reveal in finder' function, the location of the folder is a long string of info: /Volumes/Main external hard drive oct 2013/Main photo folder/NC/NC 5/iPhoto Library.photolibrary/Thumbnails/2013/07/30/20130730-110355.
I am trying to keep all photos on an external HD, aka 'Main external Hard Drive', but the iphoto library snuck into one of my folders when I was transferring them from the main HD to the external HD.  This created many duplicates.  I just deleted it.
Do you think I need to uninstall and reinstall PSE 12 to get rid of the many duplicate file folders?  Would that be the simplest fix?
I really appreciate your help.  Thanks.

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