My iphoto was rebuilding and now all my pictures are gone

so tonight i ws trying to open my iphoto and it said it had to rebuild well i have a lot of picture and it was going on all day maybe 8hours and then it just stop well then i just froced quit, now when i reopen iphoto it act like i have never used it before and now all my pictures are gone is there any way to get them all back and i haven't use my time machine in awhile because i real didn't know what it does is there any way anyone can help me it all my family pictures for the last 3 years and it all my sons pictures i need them back

worst case is that you have to control click on iphoto library and choose show package contents then you should be able to find all your photos under under masters where the photos are sorted by year i hope this helps and that you havent lost any photos

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