Why is my iPhoto library blank after update?

Strange things that happened:
1) I updated to Yosemite from mavericks
2) accidentally unplugged external drive storing iPhoto library
3) tried to open iPhoto and it told me that my library was out of date and needed to be updated and rebuilt
4) went though this process but it crashed
5) tried reopening iPhoto but it now asked for permissions to be updated
6) iphoto crashed again during this updating
7) ran through this a couple more attempts
8) opened iPhoto to find a blank library
9) pointed iPhoto to library but still shows as empty
10) tried pointing to another library and again to original with no success
11) opened iPhoto library package and I now have 'old masters' and 'Masters'
12) several years seem to be missing from these two folders
13) I have been backing up what I can from these folders
Q1 - Does anyone have any idea where the missing years could be? I did have some photos out of there appropriate years so could they be in another year's folder possibly. What is the best way to search for these in finder?
Q2- What is the best way to rebuild library? note-my time machine does not backup my photo library due to size of 600gb
Thanks in advance!

11) opened iPhoto library package and I now have 'old masters' and 'Masters'
12) several years seem to be missing from these two folders
You got bitten by a nasty bug.
The upgrade of your library got interrupted, and some of your photos are still in the "Old ..." folders. There is no known fix for this, that can save your iPhoto library. We are still waiting for a bug fix from Apple. What you can do, copy out your original photos, that are still in the "Old Masters" and "Masters", and save these folders.
Then restore your library from your most recent backup and use the saved "Old " folders to reimport and add the newest photos, that are missing in your backup.
The "years" folders in "Masters" and "Old Masters" are the years, when the photos have been imported, not necessarily the years when the photos have been taken.

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