Trouble transferring photos from PC to iMac with OS Lion

The Apple store transferred my photos from my PC (with Vista OS) to my new iMac (with OS Lion), but the transfer wasn't successful. Apple care is trying to help, but thousands of my PC photos are not showing up in iPhoto. I have never used a Mac before. So everything is new to me.

Welcome to the Mac platform. If they transferred all the photos were you able to see them in iPhoto at the Apple store? You can migrate your data from you PC by following the information on this link, http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/ Also after you get that problem solved take a look at this link, http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/

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Hello there Philipfromswe.! Philipfromswe
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