I photo images have gone AWOL

I recently had a brief power outage. My Imac G5 was asleep at the time. When it rebooted, the photo library was empty. I downloaded a test version of file salvager, which found the missing files. Before purchasing this software, is there a way to reclaim the photo files and why would this happen? Do I need to repair Iphoto before attempting the file recovery? Thanks.
imac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

If you did a search for the folder names Originals, Modified and Data and nothing came up, then I don't know what to tell you.
Usually when someone opens their iPhoto Library and it is empty, it is usually because the data files got messed up in the old library and iPhoto can't read them to open the library. It will then create a new library when it opens. In the new library there will be no Originals, Modified or Data folders until photos are imported.
In your case, if doing a search for the Originals, Modified and Data folders comes up empty, it means either those folders got deleted somehow along with the photos in them. If the data rescue software comes up with jpeg files, the files it comes up with are files that have been deleted from the hard drive, but have not been overwritten yet. It can recover all the files that have not been overwritten.

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