Library Vanished

Hi folks, I've just experienced the weirdest thing! My whole library has just vanished (Invisible) It all happened when I went to use the Neat Image 'Plug In' it had to restart A3 in 32-bit and when it did all my images were gone 23,000 The folders show how many images are in them but they are not showing up!.....Help! Any ideas?

Have you rebooted your Mac, and tried to open the Aperture Library?
Ernie

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