Why did iphoto reduce the quality of my photo and turn my videos into jpegs?

I messed up my iphoto library by moving what i thought were the originals to an external hard drive. i've been told that i should have just made a copy of iPhoto file instead of going inside and taking what I wanted. it reduced the quality of all my photos so that they went down from about 3-5 MB each to being 30-50 kb each. The videos have all been changed in jpegs.
Anyway, I only have one back up (for an unknown reason) and the videos in that back up are the proper videos, but the video dimensions are tiny.
Any idea how I can piece it back together again and end up with what I had before?
Thanks,
Tom

Folks, I have the same issue.  Here is a sample image:   http://i.imgur.com/BkFelpt.jpg
1- this has nothing to do with nikon; I shot that on a Canon camera
2- this has nothing to do with disk space; I have 150GB of free space.
I am running a 2009 iMac (2.66 Ghz Core 2 Duo) runing Mavericks - OSX 10.9.2
I am using "iPhoto 8.1.2 (424)"
This problem happens randomly.  There is nothing that my wife or I have been able to determine to be the cause of iphot doing this.  The truly annoying thing is that you don't even notice it until you export the photo for use in facebook or some such
The procedure goes like this:
  - hook up the camera and import photos
  - browse through the photos and edit the photos to touch them up (using "enhance" or "crop" or "adjust") until we're happy with the photo.  The photo looks fine at this point.
  - finish editting and the photo thumbnail that you see in your catalog of photos STILL looks fine.
  - now export the photo and look at it outside of iphoto and discover this horrible vertical affect
  - Go back into iphoto and the thumbnail STILL looks fine.  But double-click to bring up the larger size image and NOW you see the vertical bar.
We NEVER had this issue before upgrading to Mavericks.
Yes, I could upgrade iphoto.  it's not that much money. But the principle of the matter is very irritating.  This was caused by Mavericks.  It is some sort of a bug!

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