HT4927 I lost all my iPhoto albums today

I have no idea what happened. I made no errors, and I rebooted my iMac to make sure. Has anyone else lost their albums? The actual pictures still appear to be there and so are the events.

If the left hand pane with the album is missing and you have problems dragging the source pane to the left as Larry suggested
delete the iPhoto Preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist that resided in your Users/Home/Library/Preferences folder. Then launch iPhoto and it should appear.
NOTE: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Home/Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder. Then you'll be able to find and delete the preference file.
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I just upgraded to the new Photos from iPhoto on my iMac. The new Photos app imported and reorganized my photos by date and mixed all of my previous well organized iPhoto events into a jumbled lot.
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Moments are the new Events. All of your events in iPhoto are not Moments in Photo and were also brought over as an album. Open the sidebar with the Option+Command+S key combination and look in the folder titled "iPhoto Events".
There's a way to simulate events in Photos.
When the library was first migrated there was a folder created titled iPhoto Events and all migrated iPhoto Events are represented by an album in the folder.
When new photos are imported into the Photos library go to the Last Import smart album, select all the photos and use the File ➙ New Album menu option or use the key combination Command+N. Name it as desired. It will appear just above the iPhoto Events folder where you can drag it into the folder
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I'm sorry to hear you are having these issues with your iPad. If you are having issues accessing your Shared Albums from your iPad (but not from your other devices), you may want to double-check your iCloud Photo Sharing configuration as outlined in the following articles, just to make sure it hasn't changed:
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Get help using iCloud Photo Sharing and shared albums - Apple Support
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I've lost all my iPhoto library. I've read all the similar posts and have rebuilt thumbnails, repaired and rebuilt database and still nothing. It looks like the photos are completely gone from my macbook air, but I don't know how this could have happened. DOes anyone have any further steps after the ones taken above?
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Download and run Find Any File to search for a file names "Library6.iPhoto". FAF can search areas that Spotlight cant, like invisible folders, etc. If there is a second library on your hard drive FAF will find it.
OT

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You can try rebuild with iPhoto Library Manager
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
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Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
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I've lost ALL my iPhoto library pictures

I've tried to recover them using the "Hold down option and command while opening iPhoto" routine but it is still empty.
I Backup daily.
I had closed down my computer by holding down the Start button when using iPhoto and iWeb as I had got stuck with the "spinning wheel of death". This was after getting the "upgrade thumbnails " message.

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And this may be the cause of the database corruption. In simple terms, you should access your pictures via the iPhoto Window - end of story.
Here's how iPhoto works.
In reads a file in the iPhoto Library Folder called the library6.iphoto file. That files tracks things like picture titles, albums, smart albums etc., pretty much everything except the actual photos. The photos are in the Original (and Modified) Folders, the thumbnails in the Data folder.
The library6.iphoto file tracks the relationship between the thumbnail and the file it represents.
So you begin to see how important this file is.
If it gets damaged you see the sort of problems that you are having. What damages the file? If there's a crash while it's been written to, or some HD corruption, or even changes made in the iPhoto Library Folder via other means than iPhoto.
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1. Try and preserve the library - your albums etc. Hence, my suggestion that you copy the db file (library6.iphoto) into the iPhoto Library Folder to replace the one that's damaged. Net result, everything back to normal.
However, as you had begun adding files to the damaged library, that was no longer possible, Think of it this way. Suppose you have a Petrol car, and you inadvertantly put diesel into the tank. What's the solution? Clean out the tank? Or just put more Petrol into it on top of the diesel?
In this situation, I suggest that your iPhoto Library Folder is now useless. It has a damaged db file and duplicated images and is, in short, a mess.
So, my next suggestion is that - because you back up daily - to restore your entire iPhoto Library Folder from the back up. What does that achieve? It brings things back to the point before all this happens.
However, I don't use Back Up. So I can't give you instructions on how to restore with it. So I sent you to the Back Up forum.
Many people back up as a sort of virtuous activity. I've backed up, so my data is safe. However, backing up is a two part process: Creating the back up and then restoring the data in the event that you need to replace lost or damaged data. As things stand, you run your application every day, but are you sure it's actually backing anything up? If your photos are important to you, then I truly suggest that you investigate this element of backing up.
I still think you need to replace that iPhoto Library Folder.
Regards
TD

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