Where does mac store all my original photos since iphoto seems to have deleted them no i did not do a back up :-(

I once had over 1000 photos which included the birth of my grandkids etc - now i have one
I have done every thing, rebuild by holding down cntrl - dwnload iphoto manager but i still ony have 1 photo the one that i put in last week
i have looked in the library i have looked in the iphoto masters file and there is only 1 photo
i photo keeps freezing up so its pretty much usless
does anyone know if these photos will be stored on the HD somewhere - ???

Normally, your photos are stored under:
User/Pictures/iPhoto Library
(with "User" being your login account). You need to select iPhoto Library and "ctrl" click and select "Show Package Contents. That's where your photos are.
As you only got one photo in your iPhoto, pertaining to your current login, you could try and go to your startup drive and select Users/
If there your login is normally "User", and you find "User1", "User2" etc, then OSX has created a new user profile for that the old one was somehow corrupted. I had this once or twice, but instead of trying to repair disk permissions, or do anything at all, I simply restarted, and the old account was restored. Only then, repair disk permissions.
If you find multiple "User" 's , then try to mount one of those and see if your iPhoto library is there. It will have the same path as mentioned about..
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