Hi, I have a MacBook Pro on Maverick. I recently got squeezed into an iPhoto upgrade, all photos for 2012/13 have gone. It tells me I have 17000

Hi, I have a MacBook Pro on Maverick 10.9.1. I recently got squeezed into an iPhoto upgrade I didn't want to do. When it had finished, all photos for 2012 -2013 had disappeared and instead of it saying I had about 6000 photos, it now thinks there are 17000+ despite there being about half of them missing? And no, I didn't think I would need an upgrade.
I may have back up these onto a time capsule but the voltage I am getting at the moment (Tanzania) isn't enough to start it up to check. My feeling is that they are still on the nard disk and can be rescued. But how??? Thanks

To be safe from automatic updates that you do not want, i.e., on a slow network, change your System Preferences for the AppStore.  Disable downloads in the background and automatic install, and leave only security updates enabled, so you do not miss them.
When it had finished, all photos for 2012 -2013 had disappeared and instead of it saying I had about 6000 photos, it now thinks there are 17000+ despite there being about half of them missing?
What exactly did you do, after iPhoto updated? This looks, like you imported your iphoto library instead of upgrading it. If you cannot find the original library, you really should try to restore the library from the backup. How long will it be, until you get to a better power supply?
Do you keep  your iPhoto library on an external drive or on your system drive?
Try to search for a file called "Library6.iPhoto". This file is part of any iPhoto Library. To search your entire mac download
Find Any File , as described here in Old Toad's post:
Re: Where is my iPhoto Library? It is not in my Pictures folder, and I cannot find it through Finder. Help!

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