Iphoto 9.6 .. All events lost

Well.
It seems after upgrading to Yosemite and upgrading iPhoto to 9.6 all my events are gone and the only one left is the "New Event" from today which contains 177.031 pictures.
Another "New Event" contains 15.054 pictures.
Started the new 9.6 iPhoto, accepted the library conversion .. and now back home I see that huge mess.
Not only are all events gone (except for two, over a thousand Events went "poof") 
All faces are gone too.
The Library package shows the structure under "Old Masters" .. but it seems all Folders do not contain files according to the Finder.
All pictures are new in one big heap in the "Masters > 2014 > 10 > 29 / 30" folder.
I have a recent backup of the folder .. but is is in the old format (before Yosemite) and very likely the new iPhoto will again make a mess out of it.
I will start a new library and import the folders from the backup by hand so the structure aka. events is back.
And as always. Backup Backup Backup .. everything you consider important at least twice.
Still, any idea on how to restore the faces ?

Hi
I updated from the latest version to Yosemite and than downloaded the iPhoto update.
The last version had some little lag now and than but was overall stable (one of the reasons i upgraded to a new iMac from my old 27" iMac)
I used iPhoto for  daily use and Aperture for more advanced stuff (rarely)
No account sharing (i am single user on all my machines without Admin rights for safety)  and the library is on an external hard drive and has been there for years.
I actually have three libraries (old archive, private, work) with the private one being the biggest.
All 3 libraries are existing since the iApps came with a Mac (2004 ??) and were converted to the new version multiple times, without issue than taking quite some time.
As I am afraid that iPhoto will make a mess of the the other 2 libraries too I am now copying the Master folders to another external hard drive.
I am now trying (doing some other work) to rebuild the Library again by dragging only single folders into iPhoto from the "Master" sources.
I also discovered 4 "Recovered photos" folders containing various pictures and (strangely) *.avi files which iPhoto does not want to import.
No idea what these are, will copy them to my windows machine and take a look, maybe some old digital camera made those as the oldest pictures in the library date back to 1994.

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