IPad photos disorganised after 'rebuilding' library

Question

Our photos in the library used to be organised nicely by date then we received some photos of our family in an email and tried to save them but it didn't save them but started ' rebuilding' the library and now they are all disorganised. The photo on the preview thumbnail image does not match any of photos in the event or album and all the events are now called 101IMPRT 102IMPRT etc. Instead of dates taken Can you help?

Answer 1

What purpose do thumbs serve anyway? Why don't I need them?
Iphoto 5 works like this:
When you import a photo it imports the original and
then creates a low quality Thumbnail image into
folders called "thumbs". The thumbnail is not your
photo just a reference that you see when you view
your iphoto library. In addition if you ever modify
(red eye for example) a photo than iphoto creates a
modified copy of the original...
So you may be asking what does this mean to me
Here is what I
you said you had a back up copy so do this.
- Delete all you iphoto libraries up until this point
then make another copy of you backup.
- DO a search on one of the backup libraries for all
folders called "thumbs" and put them in the trash
- open iphoto and create a new iphoto library.
- import images from the iphoto library folder that
you trashed the "thumbs" from
Note: You will still import what appears to be
duplicates but in actuallity it will be the original
image and then any modified version of any images
that you modified. But at least you wont have those
pesky Thumbnails
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