Saying the file for my Iphoto app has become corrupted. Never backed up the file, So now what?

Every time I try to open up my IPhoto app I keep getting a pop up message saying the file for my iPhoto app has become corrupted and needs to be restored from back-up. The problem is I never backed it up. and if by slim chance I did but can't remember for some reason I can't find the back-up file on my Mac Book pro. Any recommendations as to how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance

This is a good lesson for all of us. Having only one sets of files without a backup is a ticket to disaster. I know several folks who lost all of their photo library when the hard disk on their computer died. It's shame. Those files that are important to you should be saved in at least one different location than just on your computers hard drive. Its even better to keep two backups.

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Within my library I have 50 images that have had multi amendments made and each amendment has been saved as an image revision (e.g. Image6 when 6 changes had been made)
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Note that you are posting in the iPhoto '08 forum and that answers for fixing library issues in iPhoto '08 may be different than doing the same fix in iPhoto 6 - it is safer to post in the correct forum - iPhoto 6 - http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=143
Within my library I have 50 images that have had multi amendments made and each amendment has been saved as an image revision (e.g. Image6 when 6 changes had been made)
Since iPhoto does not have either a save or a save as capability it is important that you describe how you did the amendments and how you created the revised images - e. g. image1 to image6
In iPhoto all edits are applied to the image and the name remains - the only possibly way to accomplish what you say using iPhoto alone is to duplicate and rename the image prior to editing and then it is impossible for iPhoto to link the duplicated & renamed image back to the original image - as far as iPhoto is concerned both (or all 7 in your example) images are separate and have no relationship to each other
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Fix #2
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OT

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