Immigration assistant incomplete imported iPhoto library.

I used immigration assistant to import "everything" from my old macbookpro OSX 10.6.8 via time machine to my new macbookpro retina mavericks. However it only imported 3 years not including the last 10 months.

Migration Assistant has proved unreliable with iPhoto.
To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:
Link the two Macs together: there are several ways to do this: Wireless Network,Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the Library to an external HD and then on to the new machine...
But however you do choose to link the two machines...
Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.
Then launch iPhoto. That's it.
This moves photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else.

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