Help with messed up iPhoto Library

I fear that I have made a horrendous mistake. I purchased a new Macbook Pro and used the Migration tool. I didn't see where the iPhoto Library transferred over. I found my iPhoto Library on the old Macbook and drug it into Dropbox since it would sync with the new computer. When I opened iPhoto on the new computer all of the events were messed up. None of them are named correctly. A lot of them say they have photos in them but the photos show up as a gray triangle with an exclamation point.
I thought I would check the old computer, but because iPhoto Library is in my Dropbox it simply synced and replicated the "bad" one.
Is there any way to get the "old" iPhoto Library back?

What is your iPhoto version that created the iPhoto Library?
Yes, storing the iPhoto Library in the DropBox probably is the reason, that the library got corrupted. Don't store it on network volumes.
The best way to restore your iPhoto library would be to restore it from your most current backup.
Alternatively you could try to rebuild the library. The procedure differs, depending on your iPhoto version, see: iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library
If that does not help, you could try to rebuild the iPhoto library using iPhoto Library Manager, but that will not be able to restore your book, cards, ..., only the Photos and events.
How to do that is described here by Terence Devlin,
see Option 2:  Re: iPhoto thumbnails distorted after every import
Fat Cat Software – iPhoto Library Manager
Regards
Léonie

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