Iphoto 6 doesn't display my photos!

I had lots of photos in iphoto on my 3 year old powerbook, and then I got a MacBook Pro and moved all my data over the the new computer using the built in function to do that. But now my old photos don't display in iphoto 6. Instead, there are only empty frames for them. What to do???

randallk
This could be a file permissions issue:
Download BatchMod from
http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
And apply it to the iPhoto Library Folder using the settings found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/toad.hall/.Pictures/Forum/BatChmod.png
(Credit to Old Toad for this one).
Regards
TD

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