Restoring orignal/default settings

Hi folks, OK, so I get my new mac Book Pro (she's a beauty) and I plug in my external hard drive, select the folders containing my pictures, and 'click'.......presto, it seems my pictures (about 10,000 of them) are being imported nicely!
Then, disaster, the pooch decides it time to move, gets caught up in the hard drive power cable and unplugs it! I leap to help her, knock my coffee all over the place which panics her more and she runs off dragging the drive with her and sittin g in the corner shaking! Bless her!
I saved the dog, she's fine, so don't panic.....BUT, having deleted all those pictures imported to that point to try and do the process again, I find that each time I click the i-Photo icon, a message comes up telling me that some photo's have been found 'in the library' which have not been imported. These folders are saved in Users, but the folders are empty????
I've dragged them to trash, I've double click deleted them but each time, the same?
Does anyone know how I can reset the i-Photo to it's original settings please? I can't find 'Restore Factory settings' in help?
Thanks for listening!!
KP

Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Look there for a Folder called 'Import' or 'Importing'.
Drag it to the Desktop. *Make no other changes*.
Start iPhoto. Does that help?
If it does then look inside that folder on your desktop. Does it contain anything you want? If not you can trash the folder.
Regards
TD

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