Recovered Photos File

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.
I have about 12,000 photos in my library the size of my library is listed as 66.7 GB. 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. Most of the materials are dated as far back as 2004 which is strange since I created this iPhoto library in May of 2006 and did not import any previous materials into it. Would it be wise to delete this folder?
I am always fearful of doing anything to my library, such as updating thumbnails as long as things are working fine.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Larry

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.
If I understand you correctly, this "Recovered Photos" folder is inside your iPhoto Library folder. Just move it out of there to your desktop. Also, if there is an "Importing" folder inside your iPhoto Library folder, move it out as well. Then launch iPhoto and see if that error message appears or not.
If the error returns, you can try the auto library rebuild. Launch iPhoto while holding Option and Command. Check all 4 options, then leave it to work. It will probably take quite a while, since you have a large library. It would be wise to make a duplicate of the Library6.iPhoto file before rebuilding. Use Finder to select this finder, then File > Duplicate to create a copy. If the rebuild goes wrong, you replace the file with its copy.
You can use Finder to examine the contents of the "Recovered Photos" folder after you have moved it out of the iPhoto library. Trash unneeded files. Import wanted files into iPhoto.

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Everytime I open iphoto it says there are photos that have not yet been imported. Would I like to import now? I click yes but this happens everytime I open iphoto. I have the directions to move the recovered photos file to the desktop. However, it still does it when I open iphoto and I have notice that each time I click yes it then creates 2 more recovered photos files.

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Brian
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