Photos Dissapeared

For some unknown reason I had about three months worth of pictures disappear from my Library.
I immediately did a Command-Option and chose every option but it didn't bring them back.
Some good news is that this happened right after an import of some camping pictures I had taken.
So since I knew the names of the pictures I used Spotlight to locate them. I also searched for all pictures in the month of August and found them, but they are not showing up in iPhoto (they both were under the correct iPhoto directory)
So they are still there, but why are they not showing up in iPhoto?
Like I said I rebuilt the thumbnails, database and tried recovering orphaned photos, but nothing.
Any help is greatly needed...
Thanks.

I also searched for all pictures in the month of August and found them, but they are not showing up in iPhoto (they both were under the correct iPhoto directory).<<<</div>
"iPhoto directory" - I assume that you meant "iPhoto library"
As near as I can figure, once iPhoto "forgets" that photos exist, there's no way to bring them back the easy way (or even the "correct way," for that matter). I found a similar situation involving photos that I had deliberately trashed and, of course, I correctly emptied the iPhoto trash can. However, they were still on the hard drive in the correct locations in the library.
Although I'm still confused as to how and why that happened (and I have been unable to reproduce the occurrence), I was grateful because I wanted one of the photos back. Like you, I did the CMD-Option and selected all checkboxes but it made no difference - iPhoto still refused to acknowledge the existence of those photos.
The only thing that worked was to do exactly what I advise everyone else never to do. I used the finder to "tamper" with the library. I moved the photos to the desktop and then imported them into iPhoto as if they were brand new photos. It worked.
Before you utilize my solution, you might wish to make a copy of your library "just in case."

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Tag 'B2A0': Number of input channels is not correct. Could not be fixed.
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
This is often a symptom of a damaged Library database.
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 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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Erik:
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Creating a new library while preserving the Events from the original library.
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1. Are these videos different formats? Or the same?
2. See my answer to your duplicate post.

Aperture & iPhoto referenced library issues

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I don;t use iPhoto much so I'm no expert but looking at other posts asking a similar question sems to indicate iPhoto is not capable of doing this.
See Can iPhoto view pictures on a disconnected external drive in a unified photo library? for one example.
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