iPhoto will not launch

Hi Linc: Somewhere while fiddling around I managed to get a bunch of my photo albums to open in iPhoto so now, it launches and there's a bunch of albums there but not sure if it has everything. I don't think it does. However, besides that, there's still this former "Pictures" folder that did have all my pix but still appears in my home folder as a file rather than a folder. Any thoughts about how to remedy that? And, without that, how shall I store my pix outside of iPhoto? When I choose Get Info for Pictures, it only says it has 12KB so I don't know if there's anything left in there. Thoughts? Thanks.

Yeah, LInc, I guess I wasn't specific enough. I did do what you suggested and it worked in so far as iPhoto opens and I imported the library I could find but....I think there may be other libraries hidden somewhere since it doesn't seem that the one I selected has everything. Also, as I said in my previous post, there's still this former "Pictures" folder that did have all my pix but still appears in my home folder as a file rather than a folder. Any thoughts about how to remedy that? And, without that, how shall I store my pix outside of iPhoto? When I choose Get Info for Pictures, it only says it has 12KB so I don't know if there's anything left in there. Thoughts? Thanks.

Yes, I see the Pictures folder at the highest level of finder. This is the one I've been talking about. The icon looks like a folder with a camera on it and when I double click it nothing happens. Once upon a time, it stored my photos. Now it's 12KB according to Get Info. So somehow I lost all my photos which you helped me find in the new version of iPhoto but they no longer exist in Pictures and Pictures itself seems screwed up--like it's a file rather than a folder. So, these are the pieces of the puzzle I've been talking about. Fortunately you helped me retrieve most of my photos (I still think there are more but I can't find them and haven't had time yet for a thorough search) but they're living in iPhoto and NOT Pictures since Pictures doesn't seem to work. As for backup, I use SuperDuper to back up user files onto a Seagate external hard drive. Unfortunately, my photos won't be there because every time I back up, it overwrites older files with whatever seems to be new on the computer. Hope this helps.

Here you go:

drwxrwxrwx+ 5 501 501 - 170 Jul 11 13:53 Pictures

0: ABCDEFAB-CDEF-ABCD-EFAB-CDEF0000000C deny delete

I relaunched Finder and altho the Pictures folder doesn't exactly look like a file (it looks like a camera!), it contains nothing. The Help menu in iPhoto says:

iPhoto stores your photo library in the iPhoto Library file, or “package,” in your Pictures folder (in your home folder on your hard disk). The package contains all the photos you’ve imported into iPhoto and any albums, slideshows, and projects (such as books, cards, or calendars) you’ve created using iPhoto.

Unfortunately, my Pictures folder is empty.....Everything is in iPhoto. So, I think here's where we are:

1--Is there a way to fix the old or create a new Pictures folder?

2--Is there a way to move photos in iPhoto to Pictures for general storage?

3--Is there a way for iPhoto images to get iPhoto to store my Library file or images or whatever in my Pictures filer as the help menu indicates it should?

Thanks again.

Oh, and I ran Time Machine last night. Thanks for that advice too.

1--Switch To Library brought up the following options: iPhoto Library (default), New Library.photolibrary, Pictures. None of these are meaningful to me meaning I don't know what to pick.

2--Copy items to iPhoto Library is checked in preferences

3--in All My Files, i see no category called Images tho there are gazillion images in the list

So, Pictures is still empty.

Sorry Old Toad but I cannot even find what you're showing in the first image above, "open your "Pictures" folder as shown in this screen shot."

Therefore, I cannot follow your instructions. Please help.