IPhoto6 has lost all my photoes - HELP

I have posted a query on this previously, but not had any success.
I am using iPhoto6. The iPhoto library is completely empty. I cannot find my pictures anywhere, and have tried to use iPhoto Library Manager, without success. The very starnge thing is that I have imported photos into the Library from my desktop, just to see if that jogs its memory, so to speak - but when I close down iPhoto and reopen it, those "new" photos have disappeared too. Any suggestions on where they might have gone and where I can retrieve them would be really welcome, this is a heartbreaking loss.

Well given that iPhoto is not respecting these preferences and on your other thread you mention
There is one other, maybe minor thing - my Dock looks different (it is bigger and has icons in there that I had previously removed).
this also points to an issue with Preferences (for your Dock this time - it appears to have reverted to Factory Settings), and all of this suggests a Disk Issue.
Lets try something else - that photo in the iPhoto Window - edit it, anything at all - and this will make a new version. That version must be inside a Library somewhere. Once you've done the edit, do the Control-Click and this time select 'Show File' and see where that takes you.
Regards
TD

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