Accidental Batch Date Change

I accidentally batch changed my entire iphoto 08 collection ( more than 22K photos) before I had realized what I had done. I thought I was changing dates only in an event selection.
This changed their original photo dates to one standard date for pictures of 7 years.
Does anyone know of a way to change the pictures back to their original dates?
I have searched and experimented to know avail.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thank you.

nobleand
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Do you have an up-to-date back up?
If so replace the library6.iphoto file with the one from the back up.
Regards
TD

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