Manually managing rolls in iphoto Library

Hi, I recently shot several photos for graduation. I also have been importing my friends' photos from various websites. Everytime I import a photo into my iphoto, it creates a new TemporaryItems folder in
I went into users/Pictures/iphotoLibrary/Originals/2009/
-- each new folder only contains one photo.
This makes it really annoying if I want to do a batch upload, etc.
I went into users/Pictures/iphotoLibrary/Originals/2009/
and created a new folder called "roll 385". (the last one iphoto automatically created was "roll 386" and it skips roll numbers.
I put each of the photos from the over 100 temporary folders into that new roll.
Now iphoto does not know the location in the library. So when I open up iphoto and try to click on a thumbnail, it comes up as a gray square with an exclamation point. How do I re-link the moved source files in roll 385 to the thumbnails?
Thanks!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
If I were to delete my whole iphoto library and re-install iphoto with a new library, would that solve the problem?
Well yes, but a: re-installing iPhoto is not necessary and b: you can recover some of the organisation simply by following the advice above, especially the bit that starts
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function...
Many folks do this because they think that it will make it easier to find photos in the Library for us ein other apps. It's unnecessary and pointless:
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
*For Users of 10.5 Only*
You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
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*For users of 10.4 and 10.5* ...
Many internet sites such as Flickr and SmugMug have plug-ins for accessing the iPhoto Library. If the site you want to use doesn’t then some, one or any of these will also work:
To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. However, if you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
*If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running*:
Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
Other options include:
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
Regards
TD

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