can't get iphoto library to appear

Appreciate your thoughtful questions léonie.

"Has the library you restored been created on the same computer, using the same user account, by the same if version? iPhoto will not open the library and switch to another library, if the library you want to open has a corruption, permission errors, or needs upgrading."

Same computer, same user account; have done a couple of iPhoto undates since, most recently March 20. Did a repair permissions today and an upgrade (both in response to prompts during as I recall the Time Machine recover process)

"What did you do to fix that? Did you repair or rebuild the library?"

Moved the library out of a folder that iPhotos created in the restore process -- something about rebuilding the original folder. The "inconsistencies detected" was a prompt and I proceeded with the fix.

Léonie, Tried three of the four procedures in "Rebuilding the iPhoto library" in succession -- repaired permissions, repaired database, rebuilt database -- without effect.

Thank you for your attention to this! It says open with iPhoto (alternative is terminal.app) ... no version number ... no filename extension ... "hide extension" is checked and greyed and strangely, when I unlock the info it doesn't become functional ... on either library

Thanks léonie, Did that ... disabled Hide Extension and set extensions to ".photolibrary" ... to no avail ... just noticed the Europe photos library has the same creation date as Vancouver Island photos ... not true: Europe photos created in July 2014 ... (it's the one that keeps showing up)

"The Get Info panels you posted are showing for both libraries the same creation date September 10, 2012."

Yes, both say 2012 ... and that was when I created the Vancouver Island library that i now can't access ... very strange ...

"One library must be a copy of the other one."

Then why do they have different file sizes?

"How are you telling, that iPhoto is opening the Europe Photos? By looking at the pictures?"

Yes, I get the array of Events and thumbs that I set up.

"You can see, which library is open by ctrl-clicking the title bar of the iPhoto application window, where it says "iPhoto". That will show you, which library is currently used."

Did as you suggested for each library and got the appropriate name for each .. . just not the pictures.

Is there some way to reset the creation date for the Europe library?

Or is it possible one of my recent updates -- Security 2015-002/-003 -- iPhoto 9.6.1 -- has messed with the metadata? or something?

I deleted the Vancouver Island library (the one I'm trying to access now) last summer. Can't think how the 2 libraies would have become confused. They were totally separate and distinct. Still wondering how come the Europe photos have a 2012 creation date when it was created in 2014 with images exported from my iPad ... ? Think it's time to move on to another photo storage system. Can't trust iPhoto now. Thanks for your assistance léonie.