IPhoto losing pictures

Late last year we upgraded my wife's Mac Mini to the latest model. Then for Christmas we got our daughter a camera, so now we have two cameras. For some reason the pictures from our old Canon camera are being lost by iPhoto. The events disappear. We've got about 14891 pictures right now, but it has been losing events since the beginning of the year. I don't think it was the upgraded Mac Mini because we have pictures on the computer from the time after we upgraded. I am not sure if for some reason it's a problem with the camera. The pictures load fine, but then after a few days the events disappear. Is it okay to use two different cameras with iPhoto? What could be the problem? Thanks! Randy.

multiple cameras are just fine with iPhoto
You probably have a corrupted library - backup your iPhoto library and depress the option and command keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild the library from the last automatic database backup
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