I-Photo album in progress disappears!

Monday AM Greetings!
New to this forum....
First time I-Photo user - working on creating album - far into project - entire album disappears! Help!
I have Time Machine, but do not know whether I-Photo work backs up immediately/in progress and/or how to find it if it does....
Anybody else have this experience? Thanks in advance for any help available!
HRR

Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords, faces and places back.
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.
Regards
TD

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