Reorganizing Of Albums in Elements Organizer

OK, I can understand that you only need your more recent photos in your laptop catalog for editing.  If that is your sole use on the laptop, then I think it would probably be easier to just import the recent folders to a new catalog rather than deleting them from a copy of your main catalog on your laptop.  You can multi-select folders in the Import>From Files and Folders dialog and then use the Get Media buttton to import them to your smaller catalog.

Let us know if you need any further help or suggestions.

When you say "albums", I assume you mean the folders where your images are stored. 

You cannot delete more than one folder at a time in the Organizer.

But before giving you other advice to get around this limitation, I would like to know more about why you want to delete these folders from your catalog.  And do you also want to delete the photos from your hard drive or simply remove them from view in the catalog?  If it's the latter, you can mark all of the undesired files as hidden, by selecting them and pressing Alt+F2.

It also appears to me that part of your problem may be that you are viewing the folders in what is known as List View.  Click on the icon next to the My Folders heading and you will be placed in Tree View which presents a normal Windows Explorere folder hieararchy.