Updating iPhoto library memory full, photos gone!!

Similar to the problem indicated in the response from: Muhamad Abdulkadir
in this thread: Pictures disappeared after installing Yosemite and new Iphoto. Why
When my iPhoto library (very large >1TB) was updating, it ran out of memory.  Unfortunately, something happened and on rebuild, all my photos were gone.
Looking in the "Old Masters" that Muhammad mentioned, I see the folder structure, but no photos.
Now under my "iPhoto Library Recovered Photos" folder, I have >1TB of data in that folder.  All the photos have a number appended to it (e.g. IMG_1469_14.JPG) in the example, the appended number is _14. 
It sounds like this is all my photos, and would love to restore these photos, but can't seem to do it.  I do have a backup, but its offsite at the moment.  Any ideas?

Thanks Larry! 
You bring up a great point..  Based on your comment "..assure that you have adequate disk space available..."  It sounds like the upgrade copies the library and tries to upgrade it?  When not enough memory is available, it would generate the "memory full" message?  Somehow, when I saw it said memory full, I assumed it was RAM related and not storage..  If it is storage, then that makes sense, because I have just under 1TB available.

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