Photos Not Visible, Only Empty Boxes

Hello. A friend in the Netherlands using iPhoto, can only see a dashed outline of where there should be photos, ie: When they click on 'Photos' all the photo thumbnails appear to be there but all are blank inside the dashed outline. Can someone suggest what may be the cure for this? Thank you.

it would seem that after the rebuild you would then have TWO libraries. Does this mean you would have two complete iPhoto's, ie 2 iPhoto icons in the Dock or just exactly where would these two be?
Yes you will have two Libraries - a damaged one and a repaired one. Obviously, if you're happy with the repaired one then you trash the damaged one.
By default the Libraries will both be in your Pictures Folder. One called iPhoto Library, the other called iPhoto Library Rebuilt (or something similar).
No, you won't have two icons in the Dock.
iPhoto is made up of two parts: The Software - that is, the iPhoto application - and the Library, which holds all your photos, albums etc etc. Rebuilding the Library has no effect on the Software. You can easily have multiple Libraries and create or choose between them by holding down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create/Choose Library'
Regards
TD

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