Iphoto closed unexpectedly and lost all work

Hi,
My wife and I have spent the last 4 hours putting together a photobook and were about to complete it when an error message came up saying that iphoto had closed unexpectedly. I re-opened it and the book still exists but without 80% of the work we had done.
At the time of the message we were reverting an edited photo to the original.
Can anyone help? We desperately want to get this book done as a christmas present and don't have the time to start it again.
Cheers

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
The information for the book was contained in the Library6.iPhoto file, which is the main database file for your library. That file is normally updated and saved as you use iPhoto and when you Quit. When iPhoto crashed it may have damaged that file, or at least prevented iPhoto from saving your last work on the book. Unfortunately, unless you made a copy of that file as you were working, the changes you had made on the book are gone.
To prevent this loss in the future, Old Toad has created an automator workflow application so that you can quickly and conveniently save a duplicate database file while you are using iPhoto. Read his Tip and follow the links to Toad's Cellar in this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5725730
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