Link Photos back to thumbnails when getting exclamation point?

I am getting an exclamation point when I click on certain thumbnails after my wife moved some photos by accident. It will be a total pain to reimport and such. We have found the photos that match the thumbnails...so we have say Photo1 at 170x180 or whatever and Photo1 at 3,270x1000...is there a way to tell iPhoto that the big Photo1 belongs to Photo1 the thumbnail? Rejoin them as it were?

DCLevy
Sorry but it won't.
The Poster on this thread is try to recover from moving things in his/her iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder: he knows what was done and it was deliberately (if in error).
You, on the other hand
I haven't modified that file, that I know of anyway.
have done nothing like this and it sounds like your db needs rebuilding.
You have a Mini with a MS keyboard? Have you tried posting on the Mini forum to see if anyone there knows equivalent keys?
Regards
TD

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