Viewing photos on iphoto

Help! i must be mising something obvious for the last 2 hours. Tried manuals etc. I just want to do the most simple thing imaginable... view my photos. I can see a thumnail view by clicking library but if I double click on the thumbnail image I get a black screen. no photo. Trying to get round this by making a slideshow, I get the same black screen. I'm biting chunks out of the screen in frustration. Please save my sanity. thanks

Have you made any changes to your iPhoto Library through the finder? Are you running a referenced library?
You can view larger thumbnails by using the image size slider below the window, but if your originals have been misplaced, that may not work.

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    Option 2
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    This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places 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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