Moving photo s from iMac to macbook pro

Hi All
          i have just brought a new macbook pro and i need to move all my photos from my imac to the new device, they are stored i iphoto, also i have a second library of iphoto that is on a hard drive at the moment apple did do a migration but for some reason or another all the photos that were in an event say " my dog ' are now all mixed up or just one photo in an event on its own.
any ideas

drag the bad library to the desktop and Connect the two Macs together (network, firewire target mode, etc)  or use an external hard drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity from the old Mac to the pictures folder of the new Mac - launch iPhoto on the new mac and it will open the library and convert it as needed and you will be ready move forward.
Once things are correct trash the old library on the desktop
LN

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