Cant stop Mystery "recovered photos"

I recently had everything moved from Windows7 to my new iMac. All my photo went into iPhoto. There is one glitch I can't figure out. EVERY TIME I open iPhoto a window pops up and says I have "2 photos have been found in the iPhoto library that have not been imported." When I say ok and import those 2 popup windows, it opens up an album called "Recovered Photos (0)" There are NO items. NO description.
How can I fix this situation if I don't know what these are? I must have 40-some blank "recovered photos" in the library. PLEASE HELP!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Go to the Pictures folder, Control-click on the iPhoto Library package and select "Show Package Contents".
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Once in the package look for a folder titled "Imports" or "Importing". Move it to the desktop. Open iPhoto to make sure the message is gone. If it is look inside the folder and, if you want to keep the photos, import them back into iPhoto. Otherwise delete the folder.
DO NOT DO ANYTHING ELSE INSDE THE IPHOTO LIBRARY PACKAGE!
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I'm having the same reoccurring problem every time I activate iPhoto. I get a message window that says "82 photos have been found in the iPhoto Library that were not imported, and would you like to import them?"
These photos are in the Library and in iPhoto. If I select yes then I get a message that says something to the extent they can't be imported because of a non readable problem. If I select no, then a folder and the photos are developed in the picture files titled recovered photos in Finder/Pictures....this happens every time I start iPhoto. How do I get rid of this reoccurring problem that is starting to bother me. Every time I delete the recovered folder it's recovered again when I start iPhoto
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Hi Larry,
Thank you for the welcome and your instructions worked perfectly and I am now a happy camper once again without multiple "recovered" photo folders. I have been reading other posts looking for a potential same problem while waiting for a response. Many of the other posts were referring to a iPhoto Folder within the "Picture" folder. Well, all I could find was a iPhoto Library icon and no folder ( I was able to find the the right click "show contents") prior to your corrective post but stopped right there in concern of making things worse. So as soon as I read your reply it made perfect directional sense to me.
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have have it backed up on Time Machine and have also copied it to a Flash Drive in fear of losing all the family photo's and what the Boss Lady would do to me
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Ok, new mystery.
The File Salvage software is about $80., for anyone reading this thread who interested in their product. My husband pointed out that we have an external backup, and had just used it, so I went looking for the deleted photos on there, and finally found them. The photos have been restored now to the iMac (overwriting their original volumes) and though I can find them in the hard drive, and can see them in Preview, I cannot get iPhoto to display them.
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