Oh no- I rearranged photos in Library....

I took a day to rearrange (by dragging) some 2500 scanned and downloaded photos into chronological order in the Library.
THEN I hear I should have done this inside an Album and NOT in the iPhoto Library....
What are the consequences of my ignorance? what to do next? So far they appear to still be in the order into which I dragged them.
Appreciate any help,
Bonnie in Oakland CA
using iPhoto 6.0.5
PowerBookG4- AL Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Bonnie
THEN I hear I should have done this inside an Album and NOT in the iPhoto Library....
Did you do this in the iPhoto Library Folder in the Finder? Or in the iPhoto Window?
If you did it in the iPhoto Window then no harm done.
If you did it in the Finder, then when you double click on a pic to view it or edit it you are likely to get a ! or a ?. The ! or ? turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents. Unless you can undo what you did and as it involves 2,500 pics, I doubt it, then you'll need to start again.
To rebuild the library: move the iPhoto Library Folder to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library Folder on your desktop and find there the Originals folder. From there drag the individual rolls to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library Folder on your desktop.
iPhoto is a Photo Organiser - a database. It does the heavy lifting of file management, you organise things in the iPhoto Window. The good news is that everything - and I mean everything - you need to do can be achieved via the iPhoto Window.
Regards
TD

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