IPhoto won't open photos from thumbnails.

Hi - Some weeks ago, my older version of iPhoto stopped opening photos from the thumbnails.  You click on thumbnail and nothing happens, no black screen, no beach ball, no error messages - just as though you haven't clicked on it at all.  So reading other people's experiences, I've now upgraded Mac OS to 10.9.2, and upgraded my version of iPhoto to 9.5.1.  I've ditched the Plist.  I've gone through the iPhoto First Aid options 1 to 4, I've installed Library Manager and rebuilt the library.  I've restarted.  But I still can't open photographs from the thumbnails.  Is there anything else I could try please?

Try the following again:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
     User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete the contents the following folder:
User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto
3 - reboot, launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: For Mavericks, 10.9,  go to your Home folder and use the View ➙ Show View Options menu to bring the this window:
where you can check the Show Library Folder checkbox.
If there's no improvement as a test launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library.  Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?
I've installed Library Manager and rebuilt the library.
Did the rebuld library act the same way?
Are you seeing the thumbnails in the Events?
Go to the Photos mode, turn off Event Titles in the View menu, select all of the photos in the library and use the Photos ➙ Revert to Original menu option.  Then double click on an thumbnail again.
OT

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