Organizing Recovered Photos

After a "catastrophic" loss of photos, in iPhoto, I've recovered some 10,000+ photos using recovery software. However, the recovery has the photos in random order. The former albums, and events, are gone. How should I go about organizing such a large number of photos which span over 10 years of photography and a myriad of topics?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Unless you specifically choose otherwise (and don't have an iPod Touch) they images on your iPod are tiny thumbnails. If you can explain more about your problems perhaps we can help in other ways.
Regards
TD

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Can you give me an idea of why this type of error occurred
Because of a minor glitch when iPhoto failed to clean up after an import.
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TD

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Regards
TD

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I'm having the same reoccurring problem every time I activate iPhoto. I get a message window that says "82 photos have been found in the iPhoto Library that were not imported, and would you like to import them?"
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Hi Larry,
Thank you for the welcome and your instructions worked perfectly and I am now a happy camper once again without multiple "recovered" photo folders. I have been reading other posts looking for a potential same problem while waiting for a response. Many of the other posts were referring to a iPhoto Folder within the "Picture" folder. Well, all I could find was a iPhoto Library icon and no folder ( I was able to find the the right click "show contents") prior to your corrective post but stopped right there in concern of making things worse. So as soon as I read your reply it made perfect directional sense to me.
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have have it backed up on Time Machine and have also copied it to a Flash Drive in fear of losing all the family photo's and what the Boss Lady would do to me
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Thanks for that Nancy,
yes I've done all that the site is up and all created wih several pages.
I created t in fronpage first and have been editing it and 'Put'ing files up for the past few days.
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When you select folders with images in are oyu able to see previews of the files
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