Missing photos and NONE of my recent camera downloads stay

I have been browsing the forums and it seems there isn't a solution for this but I will still post it anyway.
I just tried to download the latest photos of my daughter into iphoto, it came in ok so I told it to delete the photos off of the camera.
Once it finished I noticed that all my thumbnails were the same. The photos were different when you open them or roll over them but the thumbnails were all the same when you didn't hover over any.
I was not sure what had happened, so I decided to restart the program. It said it was backing up critical data so I left it alone. When I opened up iphoto again the last import was gone.
After closer inspection I noticed that everything that I had been downloading into iphoto was gone all the way back to October 2nd. I download pictures everyday into my iphoto so this was a shocker to me.
I didn't realize if it was now or if it had been doing it since the 2nd.
I asked myself why the 2nd and realized it was the same day I created a second iphotos library on my local machine. My current (large) library is hosted on an external harddrive on the network. If its not connected iphoto usually asks me to look for an alternate place to load it to. I then turn on the harddrive and select that library.
Is there any way of me getting back these 2 weeks or just todays photos back?
thank you.

It means that your main Library has a damaged database file.
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

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