All Photo's GONE

I went to add a few more pic's to my iPad and noticed my entire iPhoto Library is empty (i synched my iPad just a few days ago and all of my pics were there - 6 years worth of my children growing up). At first I thought no big deal since I am running a backup via time machine but they are not there either?? I went back to a few days ago in time machine to restore the old library and time machine is showing there is no library either. i downloaded the iphoto library manager to try and do a restore but that did not work either. in finder, i notice my original library looks to be about the right size (25gig) but i cannot open it, restore it, anything. please help...

i downloaded the iphoto library manager to try and do a restore but that did not work either.
Exactly what did you do with it? WHat command did you use? DId you get any error message?
regards
TD

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