Iphoto making the photo sizes to Zero.

I've a photo library on an external harddrive (WD digital Passport drive) which is always connected to my MacPro laptop. I've been storing photos on this since 2008. When I launch iPhoto, it automatically opens the library on the external drive. Lately I have been seeing that some of the events are being shown with no thumbnail photo in iPhoto. So I further investigated and went into the file system (Originals folder) and looked into the folder. I was shocked to see the file sizes were zero . The names of the files are intact. The last modified time seems to from past. Not sure what is going on here.  There are lot of files in lot of other events folders with file size zero. Not sure what happened. My understanding is that the data might be still there but the matadata is currupt. It could be something to do with the upgrade or something else I recently did. Not sure how to fix it.
Did anyone else run into this problem? Did you know the fix for this problem? Any ideas how I can recover my photos?
Thanks
EZ.

The file system is fat32.
IPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, saving edits and sharing the photos.
Without a back up I'm afraid you have a bad situation.
Regards
TD

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