Question about Updating to iPhoto in iLife 08

I'm currently running iPhoto 6. I've read about how the new iPhoto organizes the library into events, etc. One thing is not clear to me from all that I've read. Are albums still supported? What happens to all the folders and albums that you have already created if you update to the new iPhoto? Does it involve massive amounts of reorganizing and renaming or does it leave the folders and albums alone? Thanks.

Your folders and albums will remain the same.
Events is simply the new word for Film Rolls, wrapped in a pretty, new package. If you have any Rolls with the default name (Ex: Roll 52) then you may want to rename those rolls before upgrading. That is because named Rolls will transfer over to Events; but Rolls with the default numbers as their names will be changed into "Untitled Event". The drawback there is that those Rolls may be divided into multiple Events based on photo dates, and give you unexpected results. The way that photos get grouped into Events is a setting in iPhoto '08 Preferences.
Apple's online video tutorials show how iPhoto '08 uses Events and Albums: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#iphoto
Regards.

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No you won't necessarily lose your photos when upgrading but it's very very unwise not to back up first. Backing up is like using a seat belt in a car. You can drive without one for years and have no issues, but if you do have a problem the outcome will be a lot worse. So, too, with back ups. And upgrading is one of those times when the risks of a problem are higher.
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Example of such apps: Chronosync - but there are many others. Search on MacUpdate or the App Store

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Hey guys, thanks for reading.
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If you buy Logic Po 9 from the App store.. all that extra content is available to download directly from inside the Logic Pro 9 App now (It's a menu option) so you won't lose anything.... and you get all your old versions updated and the for free!
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I'm currently a heavy iPhoto user and am looking into migrating to Aperture. Can anyone give me a sense of what I to expect if/when I make this switch?
Here are several particular things I'm wondering about:
1. iPhoto works great as a computerized photo album for casual browsing. (I can see a page of different events with mouse-over previews, plus I can hide poorer shots so that I can just view the highlights.) Will Aperture be a step back in this department? If so, is it possible to "share" my Aperture photos with iPhoto without keeping two parallel copies of everything?
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5. Do EXIF tags get re-read upon import from iPhoto to Aperture? I've got a number of iPhoto files which I've retroactively geotagged with HoudahGeo. Will the tagging be lost (since iPhoto is not currently aware of the geotagging as the EXIF tags have not been re-read)... or will Aperture now recognize this metadata?
6. If worst-comes-to-worst and I give up on Aperture after a few months, how painful will it be to un-migrate back to iPhoto? More importantly, what album metada (e.g. events, albums, ratings, tags, notes, dates, hidden-ness, links between original and modified versions of a photo, iWeb references, etc.) will be lost? In other words, if I were to import everything from iPhoto to Aperture, wipe my iPhoto library clean, and then export everything back from Aperture to iPhoto, what information will have been destroyed?
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Here are several observations (read: warnings) in case anyone else is considering migrating a significant iPhoto library to Aperture...
A) Pictures marked as "hidden" appear to be silently skipped over (along with video clips, as was expected) when importing an iPhoto library to Aperture. They do not appear in the relevant Aperture project regardless of the filtering options.
B) Both iPhoto originals and modifieds are imported. The former are given the keyword "iPhoto original" and the latter are given the keyword "iPhoto modified." Each pair of photos is put into a single Aperture "stack." Both photos are given the same tags/ratings (so, for example, the un-rotated, uncropped, poorly balanced original will show up alongside the nice clean "modified" if you were to filter for 5-star images), and both files are given identical "version names" (equal to the "name field" in iPhoto). In most cases the original -- not the modified version -- was set as the stack's "pick" and displayed when the stack was collapsed. *Significantly, I could find no way of creating a view in Aperture that showed one copy of each picture, with the "iphoto modified" version displayed for photos that had been modified in iPhoto and the original version displayed for photos that had never been modified in iPhoto!* (This is, of course, the way they are shown in iPhoto.)
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