My iPhoto shows events but pictures have a gray triangle and exclamation point. How do I get my pictures back?

Hi, I noticed recently that when I am in iPhoto on my macBook Pro that some of my old pictures are no longer showing up. It happens alot with my pictures from 2013 and back but sporadically through 2014. The events are all listed and it shows how many pictures should be there but once I enter an event instead of the individual thumbnails I see a black background with a triangle and an exclamation point. I have tried to restore my iPhoto library from time machine and am either doing it wrong or possibly their is corruption there. I am getting stressed because this is TONS of my pictures. Can anyone help or offer any advice? Thank you!

This indicates a disconnect between the Thumbnail and the original
this can be caused by two things
1 - User action deleting items from inside the iPhoto library - can be directly - can be from the All images list (never delete from there) - can be from running cleanup software like MacKeeer, CleanMac2 or other dangerous, defective software that improperly deletes or changes things in the iPhoto library - if you have done any of these things you must restore your backup from before you did them and damaged your iPhoto library - and I recommend getting rid of any "clean up software" ASAP (although being essentially MalWear it is not easy)
2 - corruption of the iPhoto library - If it is not #1 then Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild your database
LN

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