Help - Restoring Photos

I am hoping someone can help me with this one. I backed up my photos onto an external hard drive (thank goodness, since my hard drive on my imac G5 crashed) and I copied the multitude of directories of photos into the iPhotos directory, but when I open iPhoto, it does not recognize any of the photos, nor can I import them into iPhoto. Thanks in advance.
Randy

Randy:
If those are the only files from the iPhoto Library folder that you backed up then I don't think you'll be able to reconstruct your library as it was. Here's what you should have backed up, with the exception of the iPod Photo Cache folder.
I suggest you try the following:
1 - place all of the year folders inside a container folder titled Holding.
2 - launch iPhoto and create a new, empty library.
3 - go to the File->Add to Library menu option and select it.
4 - navigate to the Holding folder and select it.
That should import all of your photos into the new library and maintain some of your original rolls, the original files in rolls also. But you will lose your keywords, albums, etc. Check to make sure you do have all of your photos and then you can delete the Holding folder and contents.
In the future you must backup the entire iPhoto Library folder and contents intact.

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