IPhoto pics are low resolution and small

I've got other open tickets on here, but let's try and tackle this one for now.
I recently had my IT guy here at work update my OS and as a result, destroy my iPhoto as I know it.
It imported all my pics, lost the albums, used the face recognition and doubled the size of my folders AND seems to have imported the pics at a lower resolution.
When I click on an individual picture, on the display screen it shows up small in the window. I can zoom on it, but it looses resolution. It's just as if they were brought in at a low resolution, and lost the high resolution.
Let me know if something similar has happened to you, I can post pics of my screen if this is too hard to follow...
Thanks,
JT

2 - in the finder drag the iPhoto library from the current loction in the pictures folder to the desktop
I drag it down and it starts to copy the library...doesn't delete it. I'm assuming I can make that copy, then drag the original folder to the trash, then essentially deleting it?
Dragging the library to a new location on the same volume does not copy it but moves it and is virtually instant - if you drag it to a different volume it will copy it - by default both the pictures folder and the desktop folder are on the same volume so you are doing something incorrectly
if it is a copy on an external drive then drag it intact as a single entity to the pictures folder on your boot drive - if it was backedup using backup software (like Time Machine or other backup software) then use that software to restore it
The key is not where it is but how it got there - if it was copied to an external drive then drag it as a single entity to the pictures folder on your internal (main) drive - the drive your system folder is on (the boot drive - the drive you boot to wheb you start your computer
IF
you used a back up program to put it there then you use that backup program to restore it to the pictures folder on your main drive
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