How is the best way to restore Thumbnails?

I'm an experienced Mac user and have used iPhoto since it began. I have carefully arranged my iPhoto collection over the years so it has always served me well. I am currently running iPhoto 11.
Yesterday, out of the blue, when I started iPhoto I received a notice that there were "inconsistencies" in my iPhoto collection and I should hit the button to fix them now. I did. After quite a few minutes that was done, and then I was asked to authorize updating my Thumbnails. Again I said OK. That took about a half hour. When complete I found all of my events had been rearranged, but were at least visible.
I decided the quickest way to fix that was to go back to an earlier iPhotos file (in Pictures folder) on my Time Machine. I restored that and used it. My arrangement was OK, but many of my thumbnails were now missing. Their dotted line locations and titles were present, but not the thumbnail photo. After trying over and over again I could not restore all of those thumbnails (perhaps 33% of them). I used the "rebuilding thumbnails" and "rebuilding the database" techniques which are part of iPhoto, but neither worked at all.
What to do? I read on this site that someone else had made his thumbnails return by manipulating each each one in some way (he rotated his). I tried that, closed iPhoto, and then reopened it and Voilá! the thumbnail had returned. The problem is I have many hundreds like that, and manipulating each one is extremely tedious. I've done quite a lot of those now, but wonder if someone knows of a better way?
Any suggestions about how to restore all of my thumbnails without one-by-one manipulating?

make a temporary, backup copy of your library if you don't already have one (Control-click on the library and select Duplicate from the contextual menu) and  apply the fix below:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Since only one option can be run at a time start with Option #3, followed by #4 and then #1 as needed.
If neither of the options above are successful try option #2. It often requires a 2-3 passes to get all of them.
OT

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