IPhoto destructively turned all pictures with faces into thumbnails

I just noticed a gigantic problem with my iPhoto library. Images taken with multiple 5MP+ cameras all were destructively converted in the iPhoto library. The pattern I detected is that every photo with a face detected in it by iPhoto had its original picture turned into a 0.3MP thumbnail and the original sized picture is lost. Even if I go into ~/Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/Masters have been reduced in size. Of all my pictures in the last ~10 years that I used iPhoto to solely manage, none that has a face in it has been spared.
What is going on? Why would Apple ever want to destructively modify original imports?

No - it has nothin to do with Aperture and iPhtoo sharing the same library
the next thing to do is
Connect the two Macs together (network, firewire target mode, etc) or use an external hard drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity from the old Mac to the pictures folder of the new Mac - launch iPhoto on the new mac and it will open the library and convert it as needed and you will be ready move forward.
It is very likely that you did not do this but that you imported the old liberary - NEVER import an iPhoto library into another iPhoto library - but even if you did it correctly something went wrong and you need to redo it
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Using Time Machine through a wireless connection. Tell me where I went wrong in setting this up.
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Again, using TimeMachine for backup and restore.
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