Lost photos and albums - help please!

Hello
I'm worried that lots of photos in my iPhoto are lost.
I have clicked on some albums and they are empty.
Plus, some other older albums just don't seem to be there.
I just stopped myself importing 3,000 pics (I am not sure how I started importing pics, or where they were coming from!) and am worried that this would be the cause.
I haven't used Time Machine for a while, but could I get my old albums from there?
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
Thank you.

sorry - I thought I was clear
In the future do not select the erase button in iPhoto - in stead select to keep the photos and wait until at ldease one sucessful backup cycle has completed then use hte camera's format command to erase and reformat the SD card
for now
1 -- Back up your iPhoto library,
2 -- Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys
3 -- and launch iPhoto
4 --- rebuild your iPhoto library database
does different formatting with step numbers make it more clear?
LN

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