I upgraded my mac software to mountain lion and lost my iPhoto and all my photos in it!

I stupidly updated my software om my macboook pro to be able to set up icloud.
Now it says I can no longer access Iphoto (so ALL of my photos are suddenly gone!!??!!)
I read that people are just down;loading iphoto again and can access all their old stuff so
I've downloaded iPhoto from the appstore and now have a pop up saying:
"The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iphoto. Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of iphoto after the upgrade."
I'm scared to hit 'upgrade' and not be able to access my old photos...
HELP please????

Yes when you go to a new version of iPhoto you must upgrade your library and older versions will no longer be able to access the library
The only way to avoid losing your photos sooner or later is a good, constant backup like Time Machine
LN

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