Recovered Photos -- looking for "import" folder

I have read many threads about opening the iPhoto library, reviewing package contents, finding the "import" folder, etc. But, all I find is a folder marked "Autoimport." Is this the folder with the recovered photos? The folder contains 4,305 images, which is about the same number of photos that I deleted during a massive cleanup effort. But, I emptied the iPhoto trash and don't know where all these images might come from.

Old Toad!
You don't know how helpful this post is. After the 9.4 fiasco I have an 'event' folder with recovered photos that has about 82.000 some pictures in it. They are all duplicates of my originals about 22.000 give or take. This thing is eating up a lot of space and holding down all applications.
I still think 9.4 stinks. I had to delete the library on my iMac and copy the one from my macbook.
Spend hours on this, thanks Apple for a premature update!
Wolfgang

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