Why have all photo titles in iPhoto disappeared?

All the image titles I typed in my iPhoto album over the past years have suddenly disappeared and been replaced by image numbers!  Does anyone know why this happened or how to restore the titles?  This is a disaster!

What version of iPhoto? What version of the OS? what has changed since you saw the titles?
In short we are not mind readers and we can not tell you how something happened unless you tell us what you have done and what symptoms, error messages, etc you have
LN

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