Where are my iPhoto photos?

So, I made the mistake of clicking on an old iPhoto library icon. Then went no further.
Just now, I went to open iPhoto, and was forced to "upgrade" to use the old library.
NO OPTION FOR YES OR NO...!
Now, I have 2003-5 iPhoto pix.
***** Where do I go to get my real [ current ] iPhoto back?
Yes, I know it's probably easy...
but I shouldn't have had to do this!
Thanks.

Thanks, Larry.
Very appreciative.
Interesting: the library I opened didn't appear to have any photos, just dotted outlines.
I have '09.
spr

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Are you in the correct account that contains the iPhoto Library?
Did you ever move your iPhoto Library to an external drive? If so, and you disconnect this drive, iPhoto will create a new blank one in the pictures folder.
Check your computer to see if the "iPhoto Library" was accidently moved to the trash.
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Where are all my photos you said had been moved

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Bob
Why bother do all that - all of these are faster, easier and safer.
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I don't know where to begin. iPhoto has gotten worse and worse over the years, but unfortunately I have tens of thousands of photos in it going back decades.
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Thanks,
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Well, I do like that Photostream syncs between my iPhone and iPad. What I don't understand is why the import into iPhone seems to sometimes have just Photostream events and then separately events sorted by date, but without the items that were imported into Photostream events.
Rather than turn off Photostream altogether, what would be nice is if I could just turn it off in iWeb. Is that possible?
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Basically, it used to be that
(1) I could import and everything would be broken up into events by date;
(2) I could delete from my iPhone after import and everything would be deleted.
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I just want to be able to organize my photos and find them. Even finding them in the current version of iPhoto got harder than it was in the previous version of iPhoto. It's just become a really confusing mess of a piece of software to use.
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