Iphoto: more on unreadable files

My photos were sitting in my iphoto library: no problemo. Then, after months of their being visualizable, I clicked on the iphoto icon and about 90% of the photos in the library did not display, but just appeared as blanks, spookily having the dimensions of the croppings I'd done on them.
If I highlight one of these blanks and click "get info", I get the info on the image [file name etc.] But, if I try to open them in:
Preview: “Cldn’t open the file. It may be corrupt or a file format that Preview doesn’t recognize.”
Photoshop: “cld not cmplete yr request bec a JPEG marker segment length is too short [the file may be truncated or incomplete]"
Adobe Image Ready” “Could not complete this operation. The end of this file was reached unexpectably.”
HELP!

As long as you still have your original iPhoto
library you can still recover. Look at this thread
and read lori_diloreto's post about how to manually
rebuild an iPhoto 5 library.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=360
3714&#3603714 As she explains, you will get back
your photos in their rolls, but other data (albums,
keywords, etc.) will be lost. You can also read the
Manual rebuild section of this Apple KB article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947
Dismal results. I tried both the Lori method and the Manual Rebuild method and there appears to be only one photo in the entire old library file. [that's what appeared when I did the search for "files greater than 30 KB" in the old library. BTW the alleged Back Up File does not in fact, exist. For some newbie reason, it never occurred to me that the iphoto files would get corrupted. From the # of users reporting this problem on the forum, I can see that corruption is not, in fact, that rare. sigh. Thank you for your help.

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I too had this error message (and to be honest, it was becoming a bit of a pain). I resolved it in a slightly different way to Terence.
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Fix #2
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5 - Click on the Create button.
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OT

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