Missing photos from album, Missing photos from album

I have spent hours and hours sorting out my library into albums. iPhoto froze and I had to reboot. When it came back on it had lost some of the photos from the albums I was working on. As I was sorting the photos I was flagging them so that I would know where I was up to in my vast library. All the photos are still in the library and are still flagged. So it makes no sense to me and I am totally frustrated at having lost hours of work. I have no way of knowing now which photos have been dropped from any one album and will have to unflag the whole library and start again. For example I know one album had over 80 photos sorted into it, now it has 33. Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone know if I can somehow restore the albums.

I have so far flagged 1806 photos which means i should have 1806 photos across the albums but i have 1938 in the albums now)
There may be now a few photos appearing in more than one album - a photo can appear in more than one album.
But I am glad you could restore your albums.
If you are working for a long time on a project, you might consider to quit iPhoto occasionally, to force it to save the databases.
iPhoto froze and I had to reboot.
Do you know, why iPhoto froze? Have you installed new software lately or upgraded software?
Are you perhaps running low on disk space? Make sure, you have plenty of free disk space; don't let it drop below 20GB, or the operating system will have problems and gradually slow down. Ultimately this can cause system crashes and data loss.

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