Albums gone from iphoto

I recently backed up everything to a USB flashdrive. Went to iphoto today (icon on desktop), no albums(600 pictures)
Found them on hard drive: (user name)-Documents-Pictures-iPhoto Library-Albums.
I could move a single jpeg onto iPhoto page.
I tried moving one of the albums folders into iPhoto open page, (got a green plus sign) but got an error message "couldn't create --etc." for each of the 30 jpegs.
What should I do? I need very explicit directions.

Nothing happens when I hold shift and option key while double clicking on iPhoto. I had imported one jpeg from within Picture folder to iPhoto..so application is working. BUT,
When I find my lost ipegs a picture opens in Preview. I can't move it to iPhoto. Message is Could not be imported (they may be an unrecognizible file type,...etc.
It is possible I moved the Picture folder when trying to condense and clean up stuff. So perhaps this is too complicated to solve this way. ??
Is there a way to tell me where the iPhoto Library should be?
I have 2, one in /my name/Documents/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Albums (these open in Preview)
The other in/my name/Pictures/iPhoto Library (aliases)
At this point I would be glad to be able to import from Preview format to iPhoto.
Thanks, Sr Citz

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