Migration of photos from one iMac to another

Recently, I bought a new iMac and used the Migration Assistant to transfer files. When I opened iPhoto, all of the pictures were there, but all my events were gone. I had to recreate events for over 7,000 pictures. A real pain.
I am now in the process of having all of my negatives scanned and loaded into iPhoto (over 11,000 now). When I am done I would like to copy / transfer all of the photos to my MacBook. However, I don't want to go through the event recreation again.
How is the best way to transfer everything as is to the MacBook?

Migration Assistant is know not to play well with iPhoto Libraries. The better method for moving a library from an older Mac to a newer one is to connect the two and just drag it from one to the other as you would any file.
When you get your photos scanned and in their own library just copy it intact to your MacBook. If you want to join your current Macbook Library with the library with the scanned images you can use the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager.
However, if the library on the iMac with the scanned photos contain ALL of your photos just drag it to the Pictures folder of your MacBook replacing the library that's there now. That's all.
OT

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