IPhoto is unable to open this library. After latest update.

http://dear-apple.com/post/1486240728
Brilliant work Apple, great “improving of stability and reliability”. This just came in with the latest iPhoto update. Thank you.
If you didn’t update yet, don’t do that unless you have a backup of your iPhoto Library. Which I unfortunately didn’t have.

I so would like to try this fix... but I cant seem to find the folder called Database in my iPhoto library! The contents of my library are as follows:
MacDesktop:pictures jay$ ls /Users/jay/Pictures/iPhoto\ Library
0E55C238-D6A0-44A9-BFE8-8F0DACFEC887-5934-00003D2343084ECD
3971EF8E-CEE4-4E0F-97C0-C8160E715618-5714-00003B592E7ED93D
3A682BB0-57B4-4F9A-A776-33858D0836CD-5708-00003B4FCAA8D848
612488E4-6821-41EF-87CE-2E99F5E4A2ED-5708-00003B5156C87E14
61611A92-9453-4CFF-A8B2-A4D6ECD31DC1-5714-00003B5B3FDBBE01
6665E80B-2BDA-443F-90D7-7AEF5AE220D8-5934-00003D211A075F3B
A7D3EB9C-404E-4954-813C-7A3607FA4E56-5939-00003D69E5605096
AlbumData.xml
Auto Import
BADF1A3B-0EC6-41D2-A195-B290E205B336-5939-00003D6B3426CA26
Caches
Contents
Data
E88B4C7A-F71A-4E04-A74C-45C7F201BEE5-5921-00003BCEAAD8FA0D
E8A8A7A0-8416-4B1B-A0B2-8059723123D3-5921-00003D1AA9124ACF
Library.data
Library.iPhoto
Library6.iPhoto
Modified
Originals
ThemeCache
Thumb32Segment.data
Thumb64Segment.data
ThumbJPGSegment.data
iPhoto.ipspot
iPhotoLock.data
iPod Photo Cache
Can someone advise please? I would hate to lose my library (at this point I am feeling like I already have - other than the glimmer of hope in this thread)

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