I cannot view photos in my albums in the finder window

This is a repost since my original post was over a month ago and I did not reply to any of the responses to my question.
I have my photos stored on an external drive (i don't even recall how i set that up), but here is my issue. When I try to view the photos in the Finder window (or use them as attachments) my named albums all show "0 items". All photos are visible when I look through the folders organized by years, but nothing shows up in the folders/albums I have created in iPhoto. I know I was previously able to do this, but cannot figure out what is wrong.
Does anybody have any suggestions? Somebody replied in a post that there are no image files in the iPhoto albums. In that case, I'd like to know where they are. My main interest is where I go to attach files to emails and such.
Thanks!!!

Raphael,
Same question as before... How is your external drive currently formatted? Is it formatted as Mac OS Extended?

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