Imported photos disappearing in iPhoto '09

I have just purchased a new MacBook with iPhoto 09. I transferred my existing photos from an external hard drive to iPhoto (approx 7,000 photos). Directly after the import they were visible in iPhoto. However, when I closed and reopened iPhoto they had disappeared. Only photos that I imported directly from my camera are visible there. I cannot find them on a search for jpeg files. They must be somewhere on the hard drive, I had 114 gb before the import and only 90 now! Any ideas? Many thanks.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Are you running a Managed or a Referenced Library?
If you're running a Managed library, then it's the default setting, and iPhoto copies files into the iPhoto Library when Importing
If you're running a Referenced Library, then you made a change at iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced and iPhoto is NOT copying the files into the iPhoto Library when importing.
Regards
TD

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