iPhoto LIbrary missing after Snow Leopard upgrade MISSING FROM TimeCapsule!

On this Mac, it was upgraded to snow leopard and all photos and documents were missing. There was a secondary user under Mac HD, Users, with (deleted) next to it. Drug it to the desktop, unlocked it and it was a 13GB image file. Opened it and all the documents and photos were in there. Don't know where the image file came from, perhaps done when the upgrade happened. Not my laptop so I don't know the history, but perhaps it can help if someone has similar circumstances.

Hey I only recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and encountered the exact same problem but your method of looking for the originals worked! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! I thought my pictures were gone for good =D

Upgrading to Snow Leopard has deleted my entire iphoto library too. I have lost a lot of photos and video clips. I only had part of my library backed up - big mistake...but the software engineers should have had this glitch nailed before releasing it.

So now I'm here in late Sept 2010 and I've just become latest victim. FYI I had a few different iPhoto libraries and they were controlled by iPhoto manager - which is a nifty little app. I have literally thousands and thousands of images across a 12tb MacPro system. I was running Snow Leopard before, but I had some recurring probs so I thought I'd do a fresh install. Now, across all my iPhoto libraries I appear to have lost a random selection of photos. Hundreds if not thousands. They are completely gone - IE I did a complex series of searches in Finder within AND without Time Machine. The files show up within iPhoto as broken links only with no thumbnail etc.

The infuriating part of this that has left me simply astonished (apart from the fact that SL people are still suffering from this months down the line) is that the files simultaneously disappear in Time Machine. I can now no longer trust the one backup system that was so good before. In this instance anyway my friends, your files are not safe in Time Machine. This is truly horrible. I weep.

Thought I'd append my previous comment. With regard to the Don Boras comment in June of this month I should say that my libraries were not stored on an external drive. The were internal drives within a MacPro. It is still possible and perhaps slightly logical however to assume that Time Machine was, for whatever reason, storing the backups on the Hard Drives instead of the external TM appointed device as specified. IE It's a bug! This would explain the mass deletion of the named files going way back. I never bothered to do a recovery as Don Boras did - My main iPhoto library was, it turned out okay and the two domestic libraries were not as badly affected as I previously posted. I have certainly lost data - and, though I often have collections of master images stored (and backed up) elsewhere, it is the length of time restoring and re-labeling the files that are missing that annoys me most. Apple could maybe A). fix this and B). tell us that they've done so.

Pretty scared of doing another SL install again I can tell you. I didn't care about upgrade gremlins when I trusted Time Machine. Now I care a great deal! It's not safe!