Syncing Photos Loses Sub-Folders

I am becoming very frustrated with Apple. I have been trying for some time to sync photos on my PC to my iPad3. Regardless of what I try, the iPad ends up with the photos in sub-folders being bundled up in the first level folders. For example: if I have 24 folders, each with sub-folders holding photos, I end up with 24 folders holding all of my 6600 photos, with no sub-folders. Where is the logic in this??
To date I have bought 3 third-party apps which claim to be able to help, but they are either useless or make it difficult to view photos in a sensible way.

That is how the Photos app currently works, it doesn't support sub-folders/albums, it only works to the one level - any photos that you have in sub-folders will be synced over to the parent folder's album. You can try leaving feedback for Apple via this page and maybe in a future iOS update it will change : http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

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