IPhoto restore from TM took the picture down from 1 MB to 65 k!!!

Hi all.
My IPhoto is living its own life……I went back in my archive to take a look at some of the pictures and found out that pictures that had been 1 Mb now was 65k and blurry.
I tried to reinstall Iphoto and its library from my Time M but the only result was that I lost pictures instead and left me with empty folders.
What to do??
Thomas

Given that you're not sure what you've done I can't be sure either. But at some point you importd your thumbnails, and that's why you have the problem. Without a good back up of the full size files there's nothing you can do, I'm afraid.
Regards
TD

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