IPhoto library corruption after 9.6.1 upgrade

I´ve been working with iPhoto for years, and I had a library with 60gb of photos, but after the last update (that I did some minutes ago), the program restarted and asked me to choose a library or to create a new one. I choose the old one, but it appears to have nothing on it! So i went to finder, just to check the size of the file, and it´s only 7,5 mb, so I think something went wrong. What can I do to restore the library?
I also had a time machine backup done, but wen I go to the old files, they are the shame size (7,5mb), so whats wrong with iPhoto? how can I recover my old pictures?
Some time ago, I was an aperture user, so I have another elder copy of the library (but it´s for aperture), and this one has the 60 gb size, so I think that it is something wrong with the update.
Does anyone know how to deal with this?
Thanks!

I just noticed that I was using an aperture library with iPhoto instead of an iPhoto one, wich is located (as I can see in Time Machine) inside the program folder, not in the images folder (where it is the new iphoto library), so I think that with the update, something deleted it. I will try to restore that old one from Time Machine, but I think that I will happen again if I update iPhoto. Can I convert an aperture library into an iPhoto one?
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions and the Mac community. First, what I do whenever I have to have a forced restart of my Mac or have a kernel panic (dark gray curtain descends over the screen with a multiple language warning) is to immediately boot into single user mode and run the file system check (fsck). Here's how:
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Armelle,
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Three separate issues then:
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Change the file suffix to .jpg (i.e lowercase) or .jpeg and see if that helps.
Download Graphic Coverter and try open them with it. Graphic Converter is a image editor, and frankly, if it won't open them, I doubt anything will.
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3. iPhoto fails to display any of these images at all.
Do you get a blank square in the iPhoto Window? What happens when you click on a pic to edit it in the iPhoto Window? Do you get a ? or a !
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file:///Volumes/War%20Drive/iPhoto%20Library/2002/
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file:///Volumes/War%20Drive/iPhoto%20Library/2005/
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file:///Volumes/War%20Drive/iPhoto%20Library/Apple%20TV%20Photo%20Cache/
file:///Volumes/War%20Drive/iPhoto%20Library/Attachments/
file:///Volumes/War%20Drive/iPhoto%20Library/Auto%20Import/
file:///Volumes/War%20Drive/iPhoto%20Library/Backup/
file:///Volumes/War%20Drive/iPhoto%20Library/com.apple.iPhoto.plist
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file:///Volumes/War%20Drive/iPhoto%20Library/iLifeShared/
file:///Volumes/War%20Drive/iPhoto%20Library/Info.plist
file:///Volumes/War%20Drive/iPhoto%20Library/iPhotoAux.db
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file:///Volumes/War%20Drive/iPhoto%20Library/Old%20Previews/
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and....
Here is the step by step method to recover your photos into a new Library....
Please read the warning below first.....
The current emergency only workaround fix for this issue when the user hasn't made or doesnt have access to any backups, is as follows....
Quit iPhoto
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Restart Mac
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Be patient............
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APJMS
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You should have been syncing all of this to your computer regularly.
Just sync it back.

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Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

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Interestingly, my wife also uses this computer and her iPhoto Library is still in her Pictures Folder, which is just where it should be.
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I would start by:
• Booting from your Mac's OSX Install Disc and running Disc Utility off of that. This will give you the options to Verify Disk and Repair Disk, possibly repairing a damaged directory structure.
• Alternatively, you can boot into Single User Mode (hold down Command+S after the chime) and type "fsck -f" (sans quotes). This will check your disk for possible data or directory corruption, but won't repair it; you'll still need to boot off of the OSX Disc for that.
• If you've got it, you could use a third-party utility such as Disk Warrior to repair your directory structure, as this can sometimes do a better job than Disk Utility.
Great job on saving your photos with a backup, but I surely wouldn't put them back until you're sure that there's no data corruption on your drive. Also, make sure you back up anything important for ALL USERS before you Verify or Repair the disk. Corrupt data is never fun...
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After (a looong time) I get one "event"-folder where I see my original files and one event (or folder?) named with a bunch of letter and numbers, ( ie "7gdaskk5klj3mjll54kj4lk6j4k4") where the same pictures are stored THREE times. It seems to be one version as the original, one low-resolution and one version with a different aspect or view.
It's absolutely impossible to navigate through all this. I thought managing pictures was one of the advantages with Mac - I am not sure any longer
How are you browsing your imported photos? This looks like you were browsing the iPhoto library using the Finder and not using iPhoto's user interface in the main application window.
When iPhoto imports photos it will store them in the iPhoto library and also additional files to speed up the browsing. It will create a preview of the edited version to share with the Media browser and a thumbnail to be used in the browser. All these files will be stored in subfolders of the library with cryptic names. Browse your photos using iPhoto's interface and don't access them directly in the Finder. You are risking to corrupt the library this way. After all, it is iPhoto's job to manage and to retrieve the photos for you.

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