Cannot see photos after upgrading to iPhoto 9.1.3

Question

I upgraded my iPhoto to 9.1.3 and now I cannot see some of my photos.  iPhoto indicates the photos are there, but all I see is blank dotted frames where thumbnails should be. When I click on one of the photos I get a gray out frame with an exclamation in the middle.  I tried rebuilding the library/thumbnails, extracting using iPhoto LIbrary Manager, checking disk permissions/repairing in Utilties, etc.  I tried every suggestions and recommendations I found on the net, but I still cannot see those files.  I regret deleting them off my camera disc.  These are the only masters I have.  So I can't copy them back into the library. If anyone know how I can retrieve these files, please let me know.   I also went back in my Time Machine and the same files are all empty gray frames.  All I know is that the files were "visible" before the upgrade and now I can't see them after the upgrade.  Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Hi - yes I did that last night and unlike rebuilding via control option route, IPLM did not rebuild those files.  It stated they do not exist.  I double checked by "Show Package Contents" and the master of those files is no longer there.  My next move is to go into Time Machine and see if I can restore the library from when the files were still in there (though unseen by iPhoto) and hope the master are still recoverable.  If that doesn't work, then I'm at the point of accepting that perhaps I may have lost 51 photos (1 event) during this upgrade.  I'm still open to suggestions though.