Iphoto wont show my pictures in large format

my pictures will not expand large it just shows a "!" with a circle around it and it does on all my photos, it was working fine and then i lent my comp to a friend and now i have this problem please help

iPhoto cannot find the master files. Only the small thumbnails are available. There are two likely things that happened depending on how you store your images in the library.
1. If you store your images inside the iPhoto library file (this is the default method), then your friend opened up the library package and moved or deleted or renamed the master images. You need to find out what he/she did in order to attempt to fix it. If the files were deleted, you'll need to find a backup to restore them. You do have a backup, don't you?
2. If you store your images outside the iPhoto library file, then those images were moved or deleted or renamed. Or maybe the enclosing folders were renamed.

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