Photo Sizes After Tumbnail Rebuild

I am running iPhoto 6 with my photo library on an ecternal hard drive. lasr week it told me to rebuild my thumbnails and when I did iPhoto showed "no photos"? What's the deal?

OK. Locate the Originals folder inside the iPhoto Library folder and check to see if your full sized files are in the subfolders. They should be. If that's the case then your files are safe but you may have to start from scratch to create a new library. You can do that one of two ways.
Method A:
1 - move the Originals folder with your image files out of the iPhoto Library folder and delete the remainder of the iPhoto library folder.
2 - launch iPhoto and, when asked, create a new library at the location of your choice.
3 - drag the Originals folder into the open iPhoto window. This will give you a new library with the same rolls (probably different roll dates however) as your old library.
4 - when the import is complete and you're satisfied with the new library you can delete that Originals folder you imported.
Method B:
This method involves using iPhoto's alias mode where you keep your source files anywhere you'd like and only create alias files inside the iPhoto Library folder for each imported file. I have a source file folder of 17,600 file (27G) on my external HD and an iPhoto Library folder of only 1.7G on my boot drive. Basically it's done as follows:
1 - move the Originals folder with your image files out of the iPhoto Library folder and delete the remainder of the iPhoto library folder.
2 - launch iPhoto and, when asked, create a new library in your PIctures folder.
3 - open the library and go to iPhoto's Advanced preferences section. There uncheck the option to "Copy files to iPhoto LIbrary Folder".
4 - drag the Originals folder and with it's subfolders (you can rename it something else beforehand is desires, like "Source Files", into the open iPhoto library window.
Any new imports should be placed in a new folder inside the source folder, the new folder named appropriately, and then imported into iPhoto. One caveat is that any file deleted from your library will not be deleted from the source folder. You'll have to make note of those you've deleted and do it manually from the Finder. Also, any edit made to a photo will create the edited version in the Modified folder on your boot drive. Otherwise, all full sized files will be on the external. If the external HD is not mounted you will be able to view thumbnails and edited files but that's all.

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