My iPhoto library file size is 80+ GB. But when I double-click to open it, the library appears empty (I get a message telling me how to add photos and if I click on "photos" it says 0). I just upgraded to OS X 10.8 and iPhoto '11 to resolve other issues. It's quite possible the library got messed up between backing up from a failing external HD where the library resided, to having that done by a PC guy who didn't do it right... then a corrupt OS fixed/upgraded my a mac guy, then upgrading to iPhoto '11, then back to the computer guy who diagnosed it as "something I've never seen in 27 years of working on computers, mostly on macs". Still. Not. Fixed. All I want is to be able to open my iPhoto library. I can see it's there. I can show package contents and see in the modified and originals folders the actual files. If I do a restore of some kind, will I regain tags, titles, edits, etc.? Or is all of that permanently lost? I'll take what I can get since at multiple points I was sure I'd lost the pictures completely, and now that appears to not be a real risk.
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