Problem with Iphoto library help please

I had a hard drive crash the other day. It had all of my iphoto images on it. I purchased a new hard drive and went into time machine and dragged the icon that says iphoto library back to my new drive. It took a while to copy. Now when I click on iphoto library I get no images in iphoto.
If I get info on the iphoto icon it says that the file size is 26.95 gb. so it sounds like the stuff is there but not coming up. What if anything can I do?

benelaxe
More of a Time Machine question, really. I don't use it myself, but my guess is there's rather more to restoring from the back up that just dragging.
You could try holding down the option (or alt) key and launching iPhoto. From the resulting dialogue select 'Choose Library' and navigate to this library. If iPhoto sees a valid Library there it will open. If it doesn't, then that's not a valid library and check on the Time Machine forum for details on restoring it.
Regards
TD

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