IPhoto Library Problem; Can't See Photos

Hi guys. Looking for a little help here. I typically ran a desktop and my wife ran a laptop. We kept our files for iTunes and iPhoto separate. I had an account set up on her laptop just for basic browsing, email and iWork via iCloud documents. However I really need to take her laptop on some work related travel for over a week. I set up a copy of my music and my iPhoto library on an external hard drive to use on my account and it was working great. We ended up buying her a new laptop today and set it up via her most recent Time Machine back up (which was this morning). It set up both her account and mine. We ended up deciding to sell her old laptop and used disc utility to reformat and reinstall 10.10.
As we will be moving around a bunch soon we decided to sell my desktop as well so I did one final Time Machine backup and then reformatted and reinstalled 10.10 as well. Just minutes later I went to open iPhoto on the new laptop under my account and it said it needed to be updated before I could use it. It was working fine only a few hours earlier. Unfortunately it no longer sees the photos in my iPhoto library file on my external drive. The file is still there and is still the same size. The Old Masters folder inside the library package still has the pics, but iPhoto doesn't see it. So I tried to use the back up from my desktop to restore the library, but I can't seem to get my desktop back ups to work with Time Machine on the laptop.
So I have all the pictures on my small external drive library, just iPhoto won't see it. I also have a back up on my Time Machine external drive from just this morning (so only missing the five or six pictures taken today), but I can't seem to access that on the new laptop as it was set up with my wife's Time Machine back up. Is there any way to get the library file working or to get it off my back up drive? Or do I have to just get the raw files out of the Old Masters folder?
Thanks

Then I can just wipe it again before shipping it to its new owner.
Be sure to prepare the Mac according to this Apple document: What to do before selling or giving away your Mac - Apple Support

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