All my photos are missing in iPhoto

I have iPhoto 7.1.5
The sidebar won't even show up. I didn't back up my pictures of course, it seems as if the pictures are still on my computer but iPhoto says I have no photos?

I had a similar situation with some of my photos, not all of them. During help from a genius at Apple an error occurred and we feared I might have lost my photos. When the problem was "fixed", the photos showed up as being taken the same day and no longer in the original order. In addition numerous photos were gone.
I'm told the photos still exist on the HDD but just can't be found by iPhoto. If this is the case how do I find them? Would I be able to do a search for all jpg files to do this?
On a side note: I've backed up my HDD to an external drive and I'm about to erase my HDD and update Panther to Tiger. When I move the user files back to the HDD I plan on consolidating them into one user.
Any insight is most appreciated.

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kmkalmoe
Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
I copied my iphoto library to an external hard drive.
Exactly how did you do this?
Have you launched iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) key and using the select library option to tell iPhoto where your iPhoto library is now?
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Could you explain this a bit more please?
now both the computer and the external drive say I have no pictures
Exactly what did you do to determine this?
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are the libraries there? and how large are they?

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I downloaded “iPhoto Library Manager”, not exactly sure how to use it, but got a message basically saying the library nor the database could be loaded and that album data file for the library “iPhoto Library” could not be read.
I’ve spent hours and hours and hours searching the web for answers but I’m scared to do much of anything thinking I could end up losing all my photos if I haven’t already.
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Thank you!
James

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Fix #1
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OT

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hi
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