Lost iphoto smart albums

Hello,
I don't use iPhoto daily and so just realized I have lost my many smart albums. Not sure if it happened during an operating system upgrade, a migration (got a new computer) or a iphoto upgrade.
Must needed, each album is actually a patient (medical field)... many¡¡¡
Iphoto 9.5.1
OS X 10.9.5

Here's a possible solution if you're unable to restore the smart albums any other way.
1 - rename your current library to something other than it is now, like iPhoto Library Old or whatever.
2 - copy the library from  your old laptop to the Pictures folder on the new iMac.
3 - get the paid version of  iPhoto Library Manager and use it to merger the renamed library into the library from the laptop. iPLM can be set to not import duplicates.
This should give you a library with the smart albums and any new photos.  Once you've confirmed that the merged library is complete and working correctly you can delete the renamed library.

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