Could not open the photos

I just tried to open the application 'Photos' (or icon) on my Mac and received a message that says "Photos could not find the system 'photos library.photoslibrary' how can I do to recover it?  I have about 10,000 photos which are lost!   I run a separate hard disk as a time machine which is connected permanently, but I've never had to use it before.  Any help would be appreciated.   Mike George

What happened, until you got this error message?  Did you update or upgrade software?  Move your photo library to another drive?  You run applications of cleaning?

By default, your photo library should be called Photos Library.photoslibrary and be in your pictures in your folder folder, unless you have moved elsewhere.  Check your pictures folder, if the library is still there.

If you have kept the library on an external drive, make sure that the disc is mounted and connected locally, not a network drive.  Photos cannot open a library on a hard disk that is used by time Machine.

What version of Mac OS X and Photos do you currently use?

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