IPhoto imported/recovered photos error

I am experiencing an error in that each time I open up iPhoto it tells me that i have 67 photos that were not imported during a previous occasion and it asks me whether i wish to import them now. If I click yes, nothing happens. If i click no, it says that the photos will be saved in a Recovered Photos folder in Pictures. The problem is that this Recovered Photos folders appears EVERY time, regardless of whether I click yes or no. And every time I open iPhoto I get exactly the same problem. If i open iPhoto 20 times, i will get 20 versions of the Recovered Photos folder - and none will have any photos in it.
iPhoto Help tells me that this may have occurred if there had been a disruption whilst transferring photos at some stage and suggests moving the offending folder to the desktop then trying to open iPhoto again. I have tried this but NOTHING HELPS!
Please can anyone suggest how to fix this, get around this or how to turn this feature off - it is driving me mad seeing this error message every single time, and having numerous versions of that folder turn up in my Pictures.
Thanks in advance!

There are 9 different versions of iPhoto and they run on eight different versions of the Operating System. The tricks and tips for dealing with issues vary from version to version and OS to OS. So before anyone can help, they need information to work with. Things like:
- What version of iPhoto.
- What version of the Operating System.
- Details. What were you doing when the problem arose?
- Did it ever work properly?
- Are there error messages?
- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
Anything else you can think of that might allow someone else to understand your issue.

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