Thumbnails disappeared

I've spent the day collecting all my photo folders and importing the images to iPhoto albums. After each transfer I checked and found all thumbnails. Now a couple of hours later I find that a number of my albums show blank icons for each thumbnail image. Iphoto indicates the correct number of images, and the iphoto library contains all the images. However, despite my rebuilding the thumbnails (AplAltiphoto app) I still cannot get the thumbnails to appear. I've read many of the postings on this problem, tried all the suggestions but none works.
Any further recommendations?

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

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