How to efficiently organize your Photos Library?

The iPhoto Events folder contains one album for each of your old iPhoto events. If you don't need them, delete this folder.

You cannot select and move several albums at once, unless they are in a folder that you can move.

I would like to know how others are organizing their libraries that have hundreds and hundre of albums in them

I am basically using the Moments, that are created automatically, based on the capture date and the location. And I am creating smart albums for specific purposes

• a smart album for each vacation, based on the date range, because the collections are split at the boundaries between states and I want the photos from long distance travels in one album
• smart albums for specific themes - flowers, wildlife, architecture, landscapes.

I try to keep the number of albums small, to make it easier to find them and to reduce the computational load.

You can create folders for certain subjects and add the albums of photos which match them into that folder. When you click on the folder you'll see all of the album for that subject in the window at the right.

If you want to organize like you did in iPhoto then:

Moments in Photos are the new Events, i.e. groupings of photos sorted by date taken.

When the iPhoto Library was first migrated to Photos there is a folder created in the sidebar titled iPhoto Events and all migrated iPhoto Events (which are now Moments) are represented by an album in that folder. To open the sidebar if it's not already open use the Option+Command+S key combination.

NOTE: It's been reported by several users that if the Event albums are moved out of the iPhoto Library folder in the sidebar they may disappear. It's not widespread but several users have reported that issue. Therefore, if you want to assure that you keep those Event albums don't move them outside the iPhoto Events folder.

There's a way to simulate events in Photos.

When new photos are imported into the Photos library go to the Last Import smart album, select all the photos and use the File ➙ New Album menu option or use the key combination Command+N. Name it as desired. It will appear just above the iPhoto Events folder where you can drag it into the iPhoto Events folder

When you click on the iPhoto Events folder you'll get a simulated iPhoto Events window.

The downside to the simulation is that the Albums/Events can only be sorted automatically by Title. But they can also be sorted manually, either in the sidebar or in the folder's window at the right. This will change with the release of Photos 2 with El Capitan this fall. That will allow the sorting by date or title, ascending or descending.

Tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new features added in Photos via Apple-Photos Feedback.