IPhoto does not read images/has moved the images

Hi,
I was importing pictures from my iPhoto library to a friends HDD last night, and when the import finished I found my 2010 folder of pictures that should have been in the iPhoto library, on my desktop for some reason. Without thinking and after checking iPhoto to realize that it wouldn't read my images, I immediately put it back into the appropriate iPhoto location, where it did nothing.
Now I can't read any of my images, they are essentially all lost. I have time machine backups but I don't understand why it doesn't work, I tried to back the iphoto file up to the last backup I had but nothing happened.
Why does iPhoto appear as a file (not a folder) when I view it in finder, but when I right click an image while iPhoto is running to view it's location, the iPhoto file is now a folder with all my pictures.
My only backup is the time machine backups but I don't know why it won't work... Please help, I want all my pictures back and not just the thumbnails
Thanks,
Andrew

I believe that that restored the photos to the existing iPhoto library with sound like has been corrupted
I would suggest opening Time Machine in the dock and going back to a time before the problem, selecting the iPhoto library at that time and clicking restore and using the keep both option to restore the backup to a different location
Depress the option key and launch iPhoto and switch to the restored library and test it - once you have a good, working library you can delete the old library form your pictures folder and move the working library there - option launch again to point to the restored library
then do the import again -
Nothing about doing an import should do what you described - something else caused that
And in the future remember that you must NEVER make any changes of any sort (including dropping folders into it) to the content or structure of the iPhoto library using the finder
LN

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