Photos disappear in Yosemite

I was using Yosemite beta, downloaded and installed the commercial version yesterday. Opened iPhoto, got a message saying some photo permissions needed repairing and then, surprise, no photos in iPhoto. In the finder, thought, the info on the app. says I have 12G of photos. How do I get them to show in iPhoto ?

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, 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.

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edihei,
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