All of my photos have gone

I have a brand new Macbook Air. Due to the lack of space i copied my library from my old Macbook onto an external hard drive which i have been using without problems for over a month.
Two days ago I created a calendar using my Macbook Air and the library on the external drive. Yesterday I went back onto the computer to finish my project and was told that my library needed to be updated. I clicked ok and then I was told;
The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto.
I clicked upgrade and then got this
There is a problem accessing one or more files in your iPhoto library. Do you want iPhoto to repair permissions for this library for you?
I clicked repair and a few seconds later iPhoto opened with no photos.
The iPhoto library is still on my hard drive and it shows that it hols 56GB of data however when i look at the package contents I cannot see any photos.
I am running iPhoto 9.c
My life is in this library, it would be catastrophic if i lost all of the pictures.

can i create another library on my hard drive?
In iPhoto use the command "File > Switch to Library" and then click "Create New" in the Library Chooser panel.
Select a folder on your external drive.
You can also get to this panel by holding down the alt/options key when you launch iPhoto.
To get started with backing up your photos, set up Time Machine. And in the options remove your external drive from the exclude list:
See this link:    Mac Basics: Time Machine

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