Where are my albums?

Upgraded to this new mac software and had problems with iPhoto. Didn't support my printer so had to buy a new one (not impressed). Husband had trouble getting iPhoto to work/print and had to reload library but now this new iPhoto (which i don't like as it is just like Picasa) has not retained my albums.
My last 6 years of photos in albums by year and month are now lumped together in one awful mess.
How can I get my albums back without having to spend hours doing it manually?
Can anyone help and if you can I need i need iPhoto for dummies.
thanks

First off you need to provide clear details
What version of iPhoto? Of the OS?
And note that printer support is not part of iPhoto - it is at the OS level and as OS updates are made printer suppliers may have to update their drivers - the same as on any computer - a New OS may require updates to other software too
a really basic question - since you do not like iPhoto why are you using it? It is not required - you are welcome to use Picasa or any other photo management program you want
As to albums - the most common reason that albums are "missing" is that they are hidden - hover your curser over the work albums and a light grey shoe or hide will appear to the right of the work albums - click on show and see if that resolved things
and you need to explain this statement since it does not explain anything
My last 6 years of photos in albums by year and month are now lumped together in one awful mess.
we can not see you or your computer so you actually have to provide details of us to be able to help
LN

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Hi again Mimi
I hope things are becoming a bit clearer. There is always a bit of a learning curve with any new software but keep persevering.
Try This:
Create a new album by clicking the plus sign in the album panel and give it a name.
On the top tool bar select File>>Get Photos & video>>From Files & Folders
Then browse on your computer for the folder you want and choose the photos to bring into Organizer.
The photos will appear in a separate import window in Organizer.
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All the selected photos you imported into Organizer will then be put into the new album and you will see the album icon appear on all of those thumbnails.
Organizer will always show all of the photos you bring in; so if you put 50 photos in Album #1 and 50 photos in album #2 Organizer will show 100 thumbnails when you click the “Show All” button or open up elements again. But by clicking on any album button on the right panel it will display only the photos you put in each separate album.
If you wish to see a list of where your photos are, change the display criteria in Organizer from thumbnail view, to folder view and it will show those folders you have linked to Organizer.
Once you have created albums you can make web galleries using the available Flash templates and share them using the free bandwidth on Photshop.com, available to users of Elements 8 (& 7 I think).
Click on the link for a tutorial.
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Hersco wrote:
After importing my iPhoto Library no Events became Albums. Some of my Albums are still Albums, but many are missing from the Albums tab and Sidebar. One of the Albums listed has no photos when it should have 142. Another is missing nearly all of its photos. I found some missing Albums by name via the search window. Yet they remain missing from the Albums tab. Very strange indeed. This is one big mess right now! Thank goodness iPhoto still works.
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After conversion, and activation of the sidebar, all of my Events were migrated into a single "Photos" Album called "iPhoto Events". Why would I want "legacy" Events segregated into one big Album? What the heck am I supposed to do with that? That's useless if new photos are going to be organized in some other way moving forward. I cannot imagine new photos automatically putting themselves into a new Event inside of the "iPhoto Events" Album... because they won't. I'll be stuck with my old iPhoto Events in this one Album, and the new stuff organized as per Photos. Weird, just weird.
Also, in the "all photos" view, there are dates that are just blank. I think I know why. In iPhoto, I merged various photos into single Events. For whatever reason, within the Library, this left empty folders behind. iPhoto's fault, not mine... I simply dragged & dropped photos to combine Events. Then during Photos import/conversion these empty folders got converted into "blank" days within Photos... this is simply ridiculous. When programming for an import, you'd want to ignore a folder if there are no files inside of it, not convert it into a block of photos that contain no photos. It's nonsensical... you cannot have an iPhoto Event with zero photos, yet that's what was converted over. LOL.
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I have a time capsule doing automatic backups on my iMac. I would not know which date to restore from as I just happened to notice the missing mail when I went to look for one of the old messages.
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*For Users of 10.5 and later*
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*For users of 10.4 and later* ...
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3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
Regards
TD

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