Missing iPhoto pics?

I am missing a bunch of images from iPhoto and all from the past year of images. I have tried the option/command when opening iphoto and have tried rebuild from iphoto manager. The rebuild ends up with the problem images/folders missing entirely. The thumbs are all there on the original but no actual image. I have clicked on the info button of several photos to do a search for the image file name in my finder - but old pics (I guess camera started naming images the same numbers again - or they are the same name as pics from a previous camera) come up instead. This is really frustrating - I am missing some great memories due to iphoto - I dont want to put any new pictures on my computer now for fear of them being lost. I just put some on from New Years early this year and they are missing now too. Not impressed with this program at all.

Simple solution: restore from your back up.
What version of iPhoto? How are you sure that the issue is caused by iPhoto?

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