I can no longer see my library in Aperture?

Hello - I have tried to open aperture this morning only to be faced with a dialog box asking which Library do I want Aperture to use? My library of thousands of photos is not there and neither is it apparent when I click on 'other library' to search for it on my iMAC with MAC OS X Lion (10.7.5) and Aperture 3.4.5.
Help please
Helene

Helene,
Are you working from the same user account as yesterday?
Have you tried to find your Aperture library with Spotlight? Type ".aplibrary" into the searchfield in the upper right corner of the screen.  Does that show your library?
What did you do yesterday, after you closed Aperture? Did you run any other program that uses photos?  Did you install or upgrade software?
Where should your Aperture Library be located? In the default location in the Pictures folder?
Regards
Léonie

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