Changed aperture libray location in Prefs...all photos GONE!???

That's what happened.
I had about 4 gigs left on the HD so I hooked an external and changed that at as my library location. Next thing you know I re-open aperture and nothing is there. I then try to open the libray from the external drive and it is only 2Gigs, and is EMPTY!
I have about 6 months of work in this library. Where can I find these photos?

Hmm, found it I think. Thee are about 5 libray copies all around different drives on my computer. Every one was empty except the one in the photos folder...why does that happen??
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