IPhoto 9 reverted to 8.....libraries shifting........???

I WAS using iPhoto 09. Today I mistakenly moved my iphoto Library onto my desktop which made everything seem to disappear out of my i Photo library. I did not drag it from the "Pictures" folder, where I've learned it generally resides. Perhaps there was a library in both.
If iPhoto was not running when you moved the iPhoto library then all you needed to do was drag it back to the pictures folder (or where it came from) and launch iPhoto
After shifting libraries around (which only seemed to create more library files),
This is not clear at all - moving a library does just that - move it - it does not create more libraries - only duplicating a library or launching iPhoto and creating one can create more libraries
I managed to get the photos back by dragging the largest library file I could find back into iPhoto. In fact, I now have about 400 MORE photos than I had before this happened.
If you drug an iPhoto library onto iPhoto then you imported it to iPhoto and will have massive duplicates - you must never import an iPhoto library into an iPhoto library
Right this moment, I have the large ( I assume "correct" ) library on the desktop. There are two other smaller libraries in the "Pictures" folder.
Try launching iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) key and using the select library option to select and test each of these libraries
First thing tomorrow, I'll back up the large library. Then, what do I do to sort all this out? What do I do with all these other libraries? Does the large one need to be moved back into "Pictures"?
Using the above process find the goo library and then quit iPhoto and drag it to the pictures folder - launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) and selecting this library
Lastly, iPhoto 8(!) now shows as the application I'm running....switching back from 9. How did this happen?
iPhoto '09 is version 8.x.x (latest is 8.1) - yes this is confusing
LN

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I am going to upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard (Bundle Pack) and from iPhoto 6 to iPhoto 8. My wife and I have separate accounts on our MacBook Pro and I have combined our iPhoto Libraries onto an external hard drive using iPhoto Library Manager. Afterwards, I opened the Mac HD icon on my desktop, opened the pictures folder, went through the iPhoto Library folder, and opened the Originals folder. I deleted my photos through here which kept the thumbnail data (when I open iPhoto, I can see all of my photos, I just can't enlarge them beyond a certain size or I get a grayed out image with an exclamation point). I have since done the same for some of my wife's photos to free up space. This has been sort of useful to know what photos we have while not eating up the hard drive.
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An Apple Tech once told me that altering the iPhoto database like I did can corrupt it
that is correct as you see when you try to enlarge a photo in the libraries you have modified
and they have since removed that ability in the latest version of iPhoto.
not removed but made more difficult so it is less like to happen by mistake - you can still do it in a number of ways but it is not a good idea
I know I screwed it up and am unsure about the best approach once I do upgrade. Any advice is much appreciated.
My advice is to use standard operating procedure - backup everything up and do your upgrades (I would do the OS and wait a few days and then do iPhoto myself) - the good library will be updated and work as before - the corrupted libraries may or may not upgrade but i would guess they will and work as before too
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1. No.
2. No idea, we'd need a lot more information.
3. Well if you're posting on an iPhoto forum, you're hardly going to get the Lightroom/Aperture etc users. FWIW what it's worth I migrated to Aperture a couple of years ago, but then I shoot Raw, and in high volumes. However, I maintain a 45k iPhoto library for testing purposes and that upgrades flawlessly everytime.
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Hi there,
I'm new to Mac and have been playing with powerpoint and comparing it to Keynote. In Keynote you can see the iPhoto libraries and select thumbnails, but I can't find out how to see the libraries and thumbnails in powerpoint...can the photos be viewed this way? At the moment I'm either:
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SJ
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In the Library Chooser Panel look for the pathes to the two duplicate libraries. You will see the location of the libraries in the path bar at the bottom of the window when you select one of the libraries. Does it show both libraries in the same folder?

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