Erased iphoto library?

Due to my mac's drive size issues I have my iPhoto library on an external disk (SSD).
With iphoto open the disk accidentally disconnected with the result that when i opened iPhoto again, it asked to repair permissions and rebuild thumbnails, but after that there were no pics shown!
I noticed the file was still on the disk and about 66GB in size (pretty much what it was before the incident)
I tried the option to rebuild the iphoto library, it said it found approx 44k pics to import, I clicked yes but then it said there might not be enough space on the disk and if I wanted to continue,
I then clicked "no" to check the size of the drive, but when I tried again I saw that the iphoto library went down to 3GB and it looks like there's not pics left: I tried the show package contents, the Original folder is empty!
I hope I haven't lost all the pics, the trash folder is empty, I don't know where the pics could have gone.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!
I'm using iPhoto 9.6 on Yosemite.

To see what image files are on the EHD download and run Find Any File to search for any files on the EHD with Names end in ".jpg". This will show you what image files are on the drive regardless of where they are located.
What is the format of the EHD? It should be OS X Extended (journaled) with ownership set to be ignored.
Otherwise you'll need to restore your backup library created just before this problem occurred.

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