Split pictures into a new event?

I took two sets of pictures, one last night and one today. When I imported the pics into iPhoto, I was hoping it would split them into two different events, since they were taken on different days, but it imported them all into a single event. How can I select a range of pictures in this event and split them into a new event?

While viewing the photos in the Photo mode of iPhoto with the View ➙ Sort set to By Date Command-click on the photos you want to put in their own Event and use the Event ➙ Create Event menu option.
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Unfortunately, you're in the wrong forum. This is not the Elements forum.
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OT

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Iphoto took it upon itself to combine all my pictures before a certain date into one event. After that date and before another date, the thumbnails are missing. After that second date, everything is fine.
I have trashed the plist,
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Now it's time to look at albums which are much more flexible than Events as an organising tool.

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. In the View->Sort menu select Descending. However that will also have the photos in the Photos mode be sorted descending. In the Event mode you can sort the events in one direction and the photos in those events in the other. In the Photos mode both the Events and photos are sorted the same direction.
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This does work, but the process is crushingly difficult for my mother. (Try to explain to a 60 year old that you need to reveal the clip in finder. Trim it, save it, trim it, save it, etc for each part of the video. Then re-import those clips into iMovie and delete the original large file from your events). This could have been accomplished with one keyboard shortcut or menu command.
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