Transfered Library to New Mac but Albums Didn't Make It

I recently transfered my old iphoto library to my new mac using an external hard drive....I simply saved the library and then dropped it into my new iPhoto.
All the photos made it but the albums didn't (the photos in them obviously did)
Is there any way (apart from manually rebuilding them from the new iphoto) to bring them over?

and then dropped it into my new iPhoto.
Which imports one Library into another. This means that you lose all your organisation, metadata and end up with a mess of duplicates.
Simply copy the Library to the Pictures Folder on the new machine and then launch iPhoto. There's no importing involved.
Regards
TD

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