"Recovered Photos" error

Every time I open iPhoto an error message comes up that says...
"3 photos has been found in the iPhoto Library folder that were not imported. Would you like to import it?"
Whether I hit "yes" or "no" the message goes away, then pops back up again, then I hit "yes" or "no" again and it puts these unreadable files into a "iPhoto Recovered Photos" folder. Each time I open iPhoto, it does it and it creates a new "iPhoto Recovered Photos" folder as well.
I tried moving the folder to the desktop (as it said in Help). I tried deleting it all together. No matter what, it keeps doing the same thing.
What do I need to do??

1- Quit iPhoto
2 - right click (control click) on the iPhoto library,
3 - select "show package contents"
4 - find the folder named import (or importing) and drag it to the desktop (DO NOT make any other changes)
5 - launch iPhoto and you will be fine
6 - open the import(ing) folder on the desktop and if there are any photos in it you want import them to iPhoto and then delete the import(ing) folder
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iPhoto Help tells me that this may have occurred if there had been a disruption whilst transferring photos at some stage and suggests moving the offending folder to the desktop then trying to open iPhoto again. I have tried this but NOTHING HELPS!
Please can anyone suggest how to fix this, get around this or how to turn this feature off - it is driving me mad seeing this error message every single time, and having numerous versions of that folder turn up in my Pictures.
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There are 9 different versions of iPhoto and they run on eight different versions of the Operating System. The tricks and tips for dealing with issues vary from version to version and OS to OS. So before anyone can help, they need information to work with. Things like:
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- What version of the Operating System.
- Details. What were you doing when the problem arose?
- Did it ever work properly?
- Are there error messages?
- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
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Previously when I opened iPhoto, I received a message (or rather 2 {I believe} duplicate messages) about importing recovered photos. I clicked OK and it created a Recovered Photos album, but its contents were empty. I deleted this album by putting it into iPhoto's Trash. When I reopened iPhoto, I received the message again, but this time it created a "Recovered Photos 2" album.
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Quit iPhoto and to to the iPhoto library (by default in your pictures folder) - right click (control click) on it and select show package contents - find the folder named import (on importing) and drag it to the desktop - DO NOT MAKE ANY OTHER CHANGES - launch iPhoto and you will be fine.
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I actually have two issues which may or may not be related. When I start up my iphoto 6 I always get a message that I have 4895 photos that have not been imported, I always select do not import because I am not missing any photos. I had seen on the discussions that the problem could be in my iPhoto libaray under a file called recovered photos.
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I am always fearful of doing anything to my library, such as updating thumbnails as long as things are working fine.
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When I check the size of the recovered photos file it is listed as 24.5 GB. The file includes movie clips, jpeg files, iMovie titles, and various other files.
That is strange, indeed. I wonder how iMovie projects ended up in your iPhoto Library.
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Click to view full size
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