I have lost my iphoto library, it is now just a white package icon

If someone could suggest the best course of action for me I would be very grateful . I have lost my photos like many here. I had backups etc, carbon clone and Time machine,For some reason my ilibrary seemed to be opening from my external drive and I just could not understand this. When I switched off the external I had no iphoto library any more.

Becoming increasingly confused I also detected, using mackeeper, that there were various trojans in my external.

Rightly or wrongly, I started to think these two problems might be related and set about clreaning first the internal and then the extrernal. The process of searching and deleting the harddrive (3TB) and my internal drive trying to clean all the mess up was taking so long that I eventually decided to delete some of the backup files in Time machine beacuse there was at least 2TB of backup

Anyway, after all that I cannot find my photo library at all. I have a white iphoto library now located in the FINDER within the PICTURES area that is said to have 14 GB. It is liisted as a package. I do not understand what that means. But it cannot be opened in any way.

Should I now start a new iphoto library in iphoto and try and import this package. As I have already mentioned, I would be grateful for any help, as all I have now are thousands of deleted photos that were in the trash..

Thankyou

Message was edited by: clbobman