IPhoto thubnails and pictures

Hi hope someone can help I have at some stage had to recover my photos from a older iphoto back up , I simply imported al the pics from the back up but now
on the main iPhoto page have the real file ( so when you double click on it it brings up the true full res pic )and a very low quality pic next to it ( again when you double click it brings up a blurred low res pic) . I have tried to rebuild the tumbnails etc. but this has not worked .. I have approx 20k so hope there is a easy way of getting rid of the low quality duplicated pic..
Hope someone can help / have any ideas
Thanks

millenios
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
What version of iPhoto are you using? (iPhoto Menu -> About iPhoto)
but now on the main iPhoto page have the real file ( so when you double click on it it brings up the true full res pic )and a very low quality pic next to it ( again when you double click it brings up a blurred low res pic)
Sounds like you imported a Library rather than restored one. Is this the case?
Regards
TD

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