Help - Lost Photo Library

I amnew to tall this and on the advice of a friend, I have just downloaded OS X Mavericks and my photo library has disappeared due to a different version being installed! I am hoping that I have it backed up on icloud but unsure how to recover. Please help as I am desperate to recover photos. Nicola 162

Hi Nicola
Firstly -Mavericks is very good and seems to work fine even on old Macs.
Also it is good practice to run 'time machine' or in some way back up all your files before doing anything major like change the operating system. I realise this may be annoying info if it's too late for that.
Is there an item in your pictures folder called iPhoto Library.photolibrary?
If so right click and 'show package contents' to see all the photos.
If this is not it - had you kept your library on a different drive or location to the default one?
If so you can just locate it in the finder and double click to open it in iPhoto
Hope this helps
Chris

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Re: My iphoto library has disappeared. How do I find it?
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Re: My iphoto library has disappeared. How do I find it?in response to onpurpose
Download and use Find Any File to search for a file named "iPhoto6.Library". It's a file unique to all iPhoto libraries.
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