Thumbnails in my Library

I am having difficulty figuring out where the original pictures are. When I scan down my library and double click on a picture sometimes I get the full sized image (1.2 mb or larger) and sometimes I open the thumnail. Why are the large picture and the thumnail picture in the same library? How do I find the large picture so I can get quality prints? It seems to me that my thumbnails shouldn't reside in the same file. I wonder if this happened when I transferred my files from my Powerbook to my MacBook Pro. How do I issolate the thumbnails from the originals?

Lori diloreto has posted a very helpful diagram to explain how your library is organized: http://homepage.mac.com/loridilo/.Public/finder.jpg
She explains:
"It is organized by Year folders. Inside the Year folders are Month folders. Inside the Month folders are the days of the Month. Inside the day folders are the photos you took on that day. If you imported video clips and RAW files on that day they will be in an Originals folder. If you have edited any photo imported on that day, the original will be in that folder also."
How did you transfer the files from the Powerbook to the MacBook Pro? It sounds like you may have imported the contents of the entire library folder structure. This would give you a library full of edits, originals, and thumbnails which all exist as originals. It would contain more than double the number of images than your original library before the transfer. Do you still have the original Powerbook library? Was the MacBook's library empty before the transfer? If yes and yes, it might be easiest to just start over with a new transfer.
The correct way to move an iPhoto library is simply to copy the entire iPhoto Library folder, in Finder. Leave the folder closed and don't dismantle it in any way. When the library is copied to the new hard drive, Option-launch iPhoto, click "Choose" and navigate to the library in its new location. There's no need to import, unless you are wanting to add to an existing iPhoto library. In that case, it's a whole different ball game.

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No partitioning, no permissions issues. Uses no extra disk space. What's not to like?
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