No previews and no visible photos

Hi, I imported a series of photos and created albums. I renamed the events. All looked good. Now I'm opening iPhoto again and can't see thumbnails, nor in the events nor in the albums. However when I hoover over the placeholders of the thumbnails I see below the thumbnail the number of photos that are in that event or album.
But when I click on the thumbnail I don't see the photos.
The strange thing is, when I sync my iPod Touch with iPhoto all the photos are visible on my iPod Touch.
Can anyone explain what happened?
Thanks,
Laurens

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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