Photo library disappeared

Question

My complete photo library has disappeared from iPhoto (version 1.1.1) and I am in a state of panic as the photos go back a few years when my father was alive.
I urgently need to find the photos on my computer - there's no way I would knowingly delete them - so where have they gone to?
Help....!!!

Answer 1

Hi, dwelly. I suspect the reason no one has answered your post is that almost no one still has or uses iPhoto 1.x, and those of us who never did use it are hesitant to guess about how it might have worked or failed to work, and how to fix what ails it.
In the iPhoto versions with which I'm familiar, inside your Hard drive>Home folder>Pictures is a folder called "iPhoto Library." That folder contains all the pictures you've loaded into iPhoto and all the information iPhoto uses to keep track of them and how you've organized them. That folder is iPhoto's database of your pictures.
Again, in the versions of iPhoto that I know, any mucking about on your part inside that iPhoto Library folder is apt to cause pretty much the behavior you're experiencing: iPhoto opens, but few or no thumbnails of your photos are displayed in it. This is because meddling with the arrangement of things in iPhoto's database makes the database meaningless to iPhoto: the connections iPhoto expects and needs to find among the parts of the database are broken, and some of the parts may be, or seem to be, missing. The database needs to be reconstituted, perhaps from scratch. What I don't know, never having seen iPhoto 1.1.1, is how to go about doing that.
Whatever you have in your Pictures folder now, *don't move or delete any of it*. Post back here to let us know whether there is an iPhoto LIbrary folder in there, and if so, what files and folders it contains. With luck, someone who remembers iPhoto 1.x will happen along and be able to tell you how to get things back in shape again.