All photos gone with upgrade to iPhoto 9.6 ???

Hi!
I updated my Mac to OS X 10.10. Since opening iPhoto required an update to iPhoto 9.6, I made this upgrade as well.
When starting the new iPhoto, I accepted to upgrade the library to the new format. There a mistake was found and a repair was necessary. When the repair was done, all photos were gone. Still the library file had a size of 500 GB, what gave me comfort to see, that the photos must still be there.
Then I opened iPhoto in the repair mode and prompted the repair myself. After a little while it asked whether all found 212,000 photos shall be imported into iPhoto and I accepted. Then it stopped saying that the disk space will not be sufficient and I cancelled the process.
Now looking at the iPhoto library, its size is only 2.69 GB and there are no photos in the masters folder.
There is a new folder "iPhoto Recovered Photos" which includes 121,000 photos (243 GB) - without folder hierarchy, all in this one folder.
It has to be noted, that iPhoto regularly complained about inconsistencies before, which have been repaired.
Unfortunately, we made no backup of our photos ...
Current storage: 466GB free out of 999 GB, 128 GB photos
What can I do to get my photos back?

1. Make a back up. Make a back up. Make a back up.
Using a computer without a back up is like driving without a seatbelt. You can drive for years with no problem, but the day you do  have a problem the mess will be a lot bigger. Upgrading anything OS, Apps, whatever without first making a back up is drunk driving with a blindfold on and no seatbelt.
2. I'm not sure what you've got right now. Is the 500 GB library still intact? If not, then really you're next job is to start over from scratch. Make a new Library and start importing all those photos again.
3. If you do still have that 500 gb library intact, then try Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
4.
It has to be noted, that iPhoto regularly complained about inconsistencies before, which have been repaired.
If that happens once then it's not a problem, but when you get a message like that "regularly" then there is an underlying damage that's not being fixed.

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