Lost all events

Hi all,
Purchased a new My Book for Mac. Tech at store told me to select command A and drag to external drive. Worked great, right up to the point where all pics (55000) were placed into a single event. This somehow transferred over to my internal hard drive as well. So now on my Iphoto, I only have one event with all pics in there.
Is there a way to restore my computer to day before yesterday with all pics neatly in their assigned events?
thanks

Load your backup from yesterday
To move your iphoto library to an external simply drag it over -
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
LN

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