Photos missing thumbnails

After installing Yosemite 10.10.3 and the Photos application, my iPhoto library was migrated to Photos. Now, when viewing photos (in Photos), I notice several thumbnails of the photos are missing. The photos can be viewed, and look normal in edit view, but in the photos view these photos appear blank, as if the thumbnails are missing.
How can I rebuild the Photos library or the thumbnails without exporting and then re-importing these items individually? (That works but there are over 100 of these items.)
Thanks.

I too ran into this issue. I discovered that the photos without thumbnails were photos that I had not actually imported into the iPhoto library - they were simply 'pointers' to the actual file that resided in a sub-folder in Pictures, which I had deleted from the hard drive some time ago. Most of my photos were imported into the library, but I didn't when I first got my Mac. It seemed a waste of space to have a duplicate photo inside the library, when I had the original already in place (this was before I understood what I was doing )
I was able to restore the original files, then I used the Command and Option function. I don't know if Photos prompted you, but I did get prompted to give it access to my media - that's when it tried to locate the original files but couldn't. After restoring them from backup, I wasn't prompted any more - and the thumbnails appeared. I don't know why they didn't show up for the photos that I did import into the library, though; seems to stop generating them at all if it can't find the originals.
I don't really know if this will be helpful or not, but I thought I'd at least share what I found helped in my case.

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