Can't find iPhoto 4 Library

I'm trying to reduce the amount of storage space of my 2400 photos on my main drive. It's getting full.
I copied my Photo Library Folder (5 gb) to an external drive.
Then I deleted the original iPhoto Library Folder to free up some space. And saved a copy on DVD.
When I reopened iPhoto to find the new Library location, I did not see a window showing something was in progress.
Now in the iPhoto window, it says there are 2400 photos, but I can't see them. All I see are grey boxes. I've restarted and nothing has happened. The last roll says it has 2400 photos. It shows the Photo Library by year with the correct numbers. But I can't see any photos.
I restarted iPhoto twice to find new Library, but nothing has changed.
Where are they hiding?

V Beckmann: Open iPhoto while holding down the Shift and Option keys. When asked if you want to rebuild the library, click Yes, then click Save. This rebuilding process will use information in your existing iphoto Library folder to create a new iPhoto Library_1 folder. I'm not sure whether the new library folder will be in the Pictures folder on your internal drive, or on the external drive. Either way, when the rebuild is complete, iPhoto will open the new library, and will continue to use it as the default library unless/until you specify another one for it to use.
If the new library is in good working order, you can trash the older iPhoto Library folder that you put on the external drive, and that didn't work.
If the new one works and is already on the external drive, fine; just leave it there and keep using it.
If the new one is in your Pictures folder on your internal drive, copy it to the external drive the same way you did before, by dragging the iPhoto Library folder's icon there and waiting for the copying to finish. You will then need to use the Option-key startup to direct iPhoto to open that copy of the library, thereby making it the default for iPhoto to use from now on.
Note that once your default iPhoto Library is stored on an external drive and not on your internal drive, it is *not backed up* unless you have another copy of it stored somewhere else. You should never be without a backup of any data that is important to you, including your pictures.
EDIT: Why was your copied library defective in the first place? Probably because before copying it, you poked around inside the iPhoto Library folder on your internal drive and corrupted it by moving or deleting something. Then you copied the corrupt library to the external drive, and naturally the copy was also corrupt.
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Hi john61254,
iPhoto 5/6 now stores the Album information in a data xml file. The Albums folder within the iPhoto Library folder is no longer used. At some point, usually after a rebuild, you will no longer have that folder in the Finder.
If you need to access photos from an album it is very difficult for a third party application to navigate the iPhoto Library in order to find the photo you need. You will have to know the date of import in order to find the photo.
There are some third party applications that can read the xml file and can navigate the iPhoto library and show you the Albums. Hopefully more applications will be revised to read this file.
Until then you will have to Share/Export the photos to the desktop. You can then navigate to the desktop to use the photos (example: web uploading from online photo site)
If your application supports drag and drop, you can drag the photo from an open iPhoto Library window into your application.
For email you can also use the email icon within iPhoto to open a message with the highlighted photo attached.
You can also use spotlight to find images in an Album...
This is what I have done using Spotlight to find my images that are in iPhoto albums without opening iPhoto..
In iPhoto, select the album, then select all, go to Photos/batch change.
Change the comments to text. In the text field I put the name of the Album.
Do this for each album.
Close iPhoto.
Open Spotlight and put in the name of the Album ( you have to remember the names of the albums or have then written down)
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
I'm afraid it sounds like the library file has been damaged.
Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
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3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
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Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
Regards
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Does anyone know who to open photos stored in the iPhoto Library without having to first save them to the desktop or some other folder?

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Hi, please help!
I currently have 2 iPhoto libraries. 1 is on my external hard drive- and isn't recognized by iPhoto anymore. And the other is a newer one, on my internal hard drive.
Here's what I did:
I copied my entire iPhoto library to my external hard drive (it is a Seagate, Mac OS extended drive) a few months ago, and I went ahead and deleted my iPhoto library on my internal hard drive. Then I started importing new photos from my camera, and a new iphoto library was created automatically on my internal hard drive.
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Anyone have a fix for this? iPhoto doesn't recognize that any jpgs/photos are on my hard drive, but when I go through finder- I can see my library, as well as many other jpgs stored on my hard drive.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Sounds like iPhoto is not seeing a valid database there.
Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
2. 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.
3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
To create and populate a new *iPhoto 08* library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
Regards
TD

Hi, I recently got a newer desktop to replace my old laptop and I uploaded my pics with my picture keeper and I can find them in images BUT I can't find iPhoto. On all my other device sit always loads to iPhoto automatically! Help please!

HHi, I recently got a newer desktop to replace my older laptop and I upl my pics from my picture keeper and I see them in images but I can't find iPhoto! Help please.

With the amount of information you've provided it's impossible to offer a solution. We can't see your computer so we need to know the details of your problem and setup, i.e.:
what version of iPhoto are you using? A new iMac will have Yosemite. Confirm.
what system version are you running? Download iPhoto 6 from the App store. Did you?
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