Timemachine seemed to drop files

I recently upgraded my MacBookPro 15 HD to a 1TB. I plugged in my timemachine drive first and forced a Backup Up Now. I even left it hooked up for a couple of hours while I found the Torx driver! I installed the Western Digital Drive and installed SnowLeopard without incident. I plugged in my timemachine drive and executed the restore system; off it went for about 7 hours. When complete, I opened iPhoto and was greeted to several events that were black and all pictures missing. These were the most recent events added, but were several days (and several backups) old. I hooked up my original drive and did an import on the photos and all was well including albums events etc. What happened? Are there other files that fell through cracks?

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
It sounds like iPhoto may have been open when you did the backup(s): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4116

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