Pse 10 to 12 HELP!

I just  upgraded from PSE 10 to 12 after the restart I noticed that my desktop photo was missing when I launched iPhoto there were no pictures then I launch LR4 the same thing all I have left in Organizer are Thumbs with ?'s on them and all pertinent  actions are greyed out. I had the computer  checked at the apple store . How could this happen and does any one have any ideas. Tech support was not able to tell me . The Apple store said it was an Adobe problem.

Your post is extremely unclear. Are you using organizer or lightroom to catalog your photos? What does iphoto have to do with anything? Please, please don't say you are using three different photo management programs, but if you are you need to explain in very great detail what you are doing and why.

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