After Album Creation, All pictures disappeared!

Hi there,
The situation is quite strange!
I just finished organizing under different new albums, my thousand (~1000) pictures that where only stored under my Events Photo Library.
I closed my mac and when I started it up back on line, I went to my iPhoto ... and All the albums and pictures where missing... I just had under my eyes a "grey" screen with the common left bar entries (Events, Faces,...) completely empty and no more albums any more where visible.
I searched the web and found out some similar issues suggesting to use iPhoto Library Manager to "rebuild" the library.
I downloaded the software, ran it to rebuild a New Library. I discovered that my library was still there but ... with only a part of my pictures. No signs of my previously created albums!!!
I had some 2006 pictures, some of my 2010 pictures but all of my 2009 ones where simply vanished!! And this in both my "crashed" library and off course in the rebuilded one.
I used my terminal to "ls" the content of my "Originals" folder under both my "crashed" and "rebuild" library ... but no signs of my 2009 pictures.
Does someone encountered a similar issue?
If yes ... any clues about the restoration of these vanished pictures are mostely welcome because ... I let you guess ... I've no backup (just for info ... I do have one now .
I would like to understand how this is possible.
Thanks

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. iPhoto Library Manager uses the AlbumData.xml file to rebuild the library. If it's damaged it won't get all of the photos either.
First launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed to rebuild the original library. Select the last three options.
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You can open the library package like this to check the contents of the Originals folder. There's no way iPhoto could delete the photos by itself. If the photos were in there before closing they should be somewhere in the Originals folder now.
Are you running a managed library, i.e. copy the photo into the library upon import?
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Where is/was the library located?

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