Finding imported photos in iphoto 2

this past march, i created a new library on my external lacie for my photos in iphoto - to free up some space on my machine. since march there were many times when the lacie wasn't connected to the powerbook but i was still able to import my photos from my camera onto iphoto. i never really checked where they were being imported or stored. today i wanted to make take those imports and put them on the lacie so they wouldn't take up room on my hd - the library manager showed the library was located in /volumes/lacie disk/iphoto library. so thought i should start from scratch and create a new library on the manager to include those photos from the hd with the ones in the library of the lacie.
i deleted the library in the manager and chose it again from the lacie- this time it said 'album datafile for this library could not be found' and all of the pics from the library were gone. i got the pics back by importing them all again from the library on the lacie but they didn't include the last imports that had happened when the lacie was not connected (march until now- about 300 photos)
i tried to rebuild the library and got doubles of everything, but still no recent imports
i have tried to search for some of the specific pic numbers of all those in the finder as well as spotlight but to no avail. have i lost them forever? are they stored somewhere i just can't get to? if someone can help i would be so grateful.

iPhoto Library Manager is a third-party application that's used for convenient access to multiple iPhoto library folders, once you've added them to its catalog. It does not automatically scan for candidates and your description sounds like you didn't have it managing all of your various photo libraries. Removing a library from that catalog does not delete the library from your hard drive, and rebuilding an iPhoto Library folder doesn't automatically add it to the list of managed libraries. Your description makes no mention of an iPhoto malfunction, so I'm not sure that your rebuild was necessary.
The library you rebuilt was the original default iPhoto Library folder (in your Pictures folder). Is that the one you had intended to rebuild? One normally would rebuild a corrupt photo database. If your problem is that you downloaded photos unintentionally to the wrong photo collection, then no database rebuild can correct that. You'll have to export images from one, import them into the other, then delete the photos that were successfully exported.
If the rebuilt library contains the same images as the original, then move one or the other to the trash to regain the disk space.

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