New iPhoto deleted old library!

I downloaded the new iPhoto for Yosemite. When it finally installed and opened my library was empty - although I have a library of photos stored on an external hard drive. I clicked "import" and it imported everything excpt that library (including videos/PDFs) but not my old library. Now when I click on the iPhoto library icon on my external hard dr

although I have a library of photos stored on an external hard drive.
Check the formatting of this external drive. Probably the file system is not supported for iPhoto libraries. An iphoto library needs to be on a drive formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled).
See: iPhoto: Issues with FAT32-formatted drives
If your external drive has a different file system, move he library to a correctly formatted drive.
I clicked "import" and it imported everything excpt that library (including videos/PDFs) but not my old library.
Never import an iPhoto library. That will create a mess of duplicate photos with poor resolution - faces, thumbnails, previews.
Open iPhoto libraries by double clicking the library.
Which iPhoto version have you been running? If you upgraded from iPhoto 7.1.2 or earlier, you need to prepare the library for upgrading, before you can open it in iPhoto 9.6, see: iPhoto '11: About the Library Upgrader

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