Can I undo an errant import of photos from an external hard drive?, Can I undo an errant import of photos from an external hard drive?

I'm desperate.  I recently purchased a new iMac to store our 50,000 plus photos, many large files from our DSLR camera.  I previously stored them on a Maxtor hard drive linked to a very early MacBook Pro, purchased in Jan. 2006.  Photo organization and storage was a persistent headache on that machine, so I hoped that housing the photos locally would help.  It didn't.  I imported the entire external hard drive library after creating a new local library to house them on the iMac and they are completly disorganized.  Prior unedited photos have reemerged.  Chronology is lost.  I basically have 50K photos and no organization at all.  Short of returning the iMac is there a way out of this mess?

Hard to say since you really give no details
It sounds like you may have had an iPhoto library on your external drive and imported that into your new iPhoto  --  NEVER import an iPhoto library into another iPhoto library - it does not work
If this is what you did drag the bad iPhoto library to the desktop until you finish fixing things, connect the external drive and drag the iphoto library to the pictures folder of the new Mac and launch iPhoto - it will convert the library as needed and you will be in business - once you are sure everything is ok drag the bac library on the desktop to the trash and empty the trash
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