Migrating iPhoto library

I'm about to transfer all my digital life to my new MacBook. No firewire-cable. I managed somehow iTunes, now it's for iPhoto (6000 Photos). What I did:
- transfer the old Libraty to my MacBook (it was iPhoto 4.0.3)
- I put it right away to /users/shared/... so everybody on my Mac can use the same library
- remvove ~/iPhoto
- so when opening I was asked to locate the library, what I did
- some importing and migrating progress bars
- now somehow finished, but I can not see any picture: not thumbnails, when dubbleclicking the beachball...
- new imported pictures appear as they shoud
The pictures are there (unfortunately not anymore in the same direcory-structure as before - I quite liked it accessing the pics without opening the application). But the application is somehow not able to work wiht it.
any help welcome
hello from snow-less Switzerland

Balz
Yes, iPhoto 6 introduces a new file structure: A Note about the iPhoto Library Folder:
In this folder there are various files, which are the Library itself and some ancillary files. Then you have three folders
Originals are the photos as they were downloaded from your camera or scanner.
(ii) Modified contains edited pics, shots that you have cropped, rotated or changed in any way.
This allows the Photos -> Revert to Original command - very useful if you don't like the changes you've made.
(iii) Data holds the thumbnails the the app needs to show you the photos in the iPhoto Window.
You might like to correct the file permissions on your data files using BatchMod to that they are correct following your move from the old machine. This is because the file ownership is probably unchanged from the old machine.
Download BatchMod from
http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
And apply it to the iPhoto Library Folder.
Regards
TD

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