Very Beginner Question About iPhoto

Hi everyone. I'm trying to reorganise my iPhoto stuff and I have some very beginner questions that are popping up.

I'm never sure which pictures in there are just in photo stream and which ones are permanently saved.

If I look in the menu down the left which is just under the "Library" heading, I see a folder called "Photos." Are all the pictures in there saved permanently? I ask because a lot of the event names inside the folder say things like "Sep 2012 Photo Stream." This makes me worried that at some point when I pass 1,000 pictures I'll lose some of this stuff.

But are pictures in this "Photos" folder ones that will always be kept? Is there a quick and easy way to make sure absolutely all pictures everywhere are in the permanently keep section?

(Sorry if this thread is in the wrong place, but I didn't know where to put it.)

MonkeySee.... said:

Those "Events" are taken off the photostream and saved to you PC. You will see a separate section down the side that says "Photostream" Thats where your "Cloud" pictures live.

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Thanks for the clarification!

So those in the "Photo" saved forever? And if I just backup the entire iPhoto Library with a simple drag and drop they'll all get backed up?