Wow! 22gb library-gone?

Just went to put some songs on my ipod touch and got this message...
"The song “What We Do-punk uprising” could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?"
When I click "locate" all of my home folders come up but I cannot select them.
About a month ago I tried to put 30gb of music onto my computer. (dragged a folder I labeled "music" into itunes but it would not work.) I then tried to change the format to another and then tried to drag them into it again. Didn't work so I left it alone....
Did I change the format of my entire library and thus it cannot be recognized now? Man, that was a lot of music-both mine and itunes purchased!!!!
Thanks!

Yes you are absolutely correct ... I wrote in anger late at night.
I was trying to add more photographs as usual , but this time for some reason I got a lot of pop-ups questions about proceeding further. I though I answered all the questions properly without of course saying YES delete my whole library / life of pictures. I do not know what all the questions were now this morning .... so I guess this does not help you at all ?
In iPhoto ... I have in the left side window ... I have boxes that say
{ } events
( ) photos
{ } faces
{ } recent
recent
{ } last 12 months
{ } last import
{ } falgged
{ } trash
in the events I have maybe 10 pictures for something I called Sarah's Wedding and my Mom's visit
recent .. and the same pictures are in the next folder called " photo" s.
All the other folders are empty , including Trash.
All my pictures ware in the first Library which does not exist anymore. Why all my wildlife / art / family pictures are gone but why only the two "Sarah's Wedding" and Mom's visit is left I do not know.
What ever happened last night .. it left those two folders / events names and deleted all the rest ??
Is there any help ? or do I have to take my computer in to see if I can get the harddrive checked over to se if the pictures still exist on it somewhere ?
Thanks for you help

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BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP .... ESPECIALLY IN IPHOTO & ITUNES!

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For iTunes purchases, see this Apple support document for information on how to redownload it at no cost.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
For content imported outside of iTunes, you'll need to re-import it if it's no longer on your computer's HD anywhere.
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Is the User library gone with the release of Lion?
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It's still there, just invisible. You can find it by holding down option and clicking the Go menu in the Finder (a Library item will appear that goes to your user Library folder). Or you can run the following command in the Terminal to turn it visible again:
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First off, you have to search the system for your purchased songs. There usually in the My Music/iTunes/iTUnes Music/(Artist name)/(Album Name)
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Library gone. HELP

Hello
So i used to have an old imac g5 and i backed up the iphone library i had on that imac. Since then i purchased a new imac and started adding pictures to iphoto over time. Today i decided to add all the photos from the old library that i had backed up. I dragged the backed up iphoto library folder into the iphoto icon and it imported all the pictures, however all the new pictures are gone!!
Where are these? my intent was just to copy the old photos into my new iphoto library.
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1. Never import one Library into another. If you do all you will get is massive duplication, lose all your albums, events, keywords etc.
I dragged the backed up iphoto library folder into the iphoto icon and it imported all the pictures,
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Thanks for your reply Terence.
I couldn't get the Java chat in Facebook to work, so I figured I would update Java and my Safari to the latest versions. So I used Software Update and installed ONLY those two items.
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Since then I have tried to delete the preferences for iPhoto, update iPhoto, update iLife Support, update Leopard to 10.5.8. Nothing corrects this problem.
Obviously neither the alias or the Library are corrupted because they both work fine when my account is imported to a system with the older software suite.
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Iphoto library gone on my side

My wife and I each have an account on my 1.8 duel G5. When I opened my iphoto 6 tonight my library was completely gone. All my photo books and every roll. Our iphoto folder lives in our shared file. When I go to my wife's side, she still has everthing as it was.
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Where has my iPhoto library gone?

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IPhoto library gone

I tried to post this under iPhoto topic, but the web site kept giving an error message so I am posting it here. I recently purchased a Canon dig camera and loaded the software to download pics. In the Image browser (of the software) there is a topic box with a Pictures folder and Movie folder. In the pictures folder there was an icon for all my iPhoto library pics and also desktop pics etc. I thought that these were probably aliases and since I was not in any of my HD folders (just in the Canon software program) etc I deleted them from the Canon software windows. (I did not want duplicates of all iPhoto pics etc.) Now I cannot find my iPhoto library even after doing a "find" and all my pics are gone. I couldn't believe that they could be deleted from a third party software program since I was not even in any of my libraries or HD, desktop folders. So it looks like I deleted all my pics (still don't understand it). Am I just not looking in the right spot for the missing folder? Sorry for the stupidity.
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"the web site kept giving an error message"
What did the message state? Which iPhoto forum. There are several? Please report error along w/the above requested info over on the Feedback about Discussions Forums so that it can be taken care of.
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Photo library gone during copying the file...

I bought a new Mac and wanted to import the library into my new computer. So I started to copy the file onto my external hard drive wth the idea to connect that drive to my new computer and use if from there to imported into my new iPhoto 11.
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How did you go about trying to copy the library from the G5 to the EHD? Did you just click and drag it to the EHD?
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Photo library gone!

I had lots of albums in my iphoto library yesterday. I just went to download some more photos and all of my albums are gone. The only thing in my library are the photos that I have just downloaded, can anyone help?

Open the library with the Finder
Click to view full size
and check inside the Masters (iPHoto 11) or Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) to see if your photo files are in the subfolders. DO NOT DO ANYTHING BUT LOOK !
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Fix #1
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Fix #2
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