Albums and faces missing after repair

I keep my iPhoto library on an external drive and even though I did not remove it a warning popped up saying iPhoto couldn't find my library and that the disk had been ejected (not safely). Next it said that I should relaunch iPhoto after which it said my library needed repairing. All good. I have all my photos but I have lost albums & faces. When you click on faces all the faces I have ever saved are in there and you can see them when you hover over the thumbnails of them but if you click on one it says there are no photos to display? Should I shut down iPhoto, eject the disk safely and restart my computer? Will this help or is there something else I should do?
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Yosemite 10.10.2
iPhoto 9.6

Hi Terence,
It is formatted mac os journaled
and YES! I do have a time machine backup and another ext HD backup (just missing the last few weeks from iPhone but they are still available).

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