How access images from iPhoto Library?

I appear to have done something terrible with one of my iPhoto libraries.
Over the holidays, as I recall, I had attempted to move the iPhoto library from the computer to an external hard drive.
This particular library, now on the external drive, shows 266 gigabytes in the finder, but I can't access any of the images.
So, something appears to be in the iPhoto library, but something may be missing that permits access.
If there's no hope of recovery of 2 years of images, should I just delete the library -- and lose all images forever?
Or, is there some hope or method of recovery?

Well it wouold really help if you told us that version of iPhoto you have - and exactly what you did? and exactly what is happening?  we know nothing at all about your or your system except what you tell us - which at this stage is only that you have a problem of some sort.
The only wild guess I can make at this time it for you to depress and hold the option key and launch iPhoto and select the library on the external drive.
LN

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