Moved my folder

Hi all firstly I am on iphoto vers 2 and have never really used it other than to let it import from my camera but I'm thinking of trying to get into it a bit more ... do I really need to spend £50 to get vers 6 ? Also ... I moved at sometime my pictures folder when I was having a clean up .. I have now put it back in what I think is the right place ie users\my name (the one with the little house icon)\pictures\iPhoto Library and then in there I have several folders ... this is how I've organised my pics ... should I have done this organising in iphoto ?... and if I want to ... when I open up iphoto get a no pictures message do you want to find ... when I navigate to the folder it won't allow me to click 'open' ... then if I try and creat a new library ... how do I 'import' the pictures into it ?
many thanks for your time ... Roger

Hi roger,
It is hard for me to remember version 2 as I don't think it used it much back then (no digital camera).
It was a big no no to put your own folders in there.
Drag the iPhoto Library folder to the desktop
Launch iPhoto and have it create a new library for you.
Now you need to navigate through the old library on the desktop and figure out which folders of images you manually put in there and which folder of images contain the imports from your camera. You want to only import the images from your camera, not the folders that contain the thumbnail images.
Take a look at how version 5 library looks in the Finder and tell me if you have the Year/Month/Day folders in your library.
This is a view of how the iPhoto Library looks in the Finder.
It is organized by Year folders. Inside the Year folders are Month folders. Inside the Month folders are the days of the Month. Inside the day folders are the photos you took on that day. If you imported video clips and RAW files on that day they will be in an Originals folder. If you have edited any photo imported on that day, the original will be in that folder also.
If you can, send me screenshots of what your library looks like in the finder (similar to the screenshots I have) My email is in my profile.

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