All photos seem to be gone or corrupted

I have been using iphoto 5.0.4 for a few years with no problems and had about 4000 photos. Today I went to open iphoto as usual, and I have blank squares where the photos used to be. If I right click on one of these squares to edit in separate window, a window pops up with nothing but black space. If I click on a square and try to export, it fails with a message "can't create file <filename>". Unfortunately I do not have a backup, so this is kind of serious.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library Folder there.
Have a look inside this is where your photos should be. Can you find them? If so, try recreate your Library by Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords 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.
Regards
TD

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