Lost pictures in sorted iphoto albums

My wife has spent many hours moving a lot of pictures into sorted albums.  Her task was to put pictures of anyone who appeared in them into a folder corresponding to that persons name.  She came to me because now more than once pictures that she put into those folders went missing.  They are not missing from the master library, but missing from the folders that she sorted them into.  I have time machine, and restored back to a point approximately 1-1.5 hours before this event happened with no result.  Is there anyway to "recover" those sorted folders with the content she uploaded in them?  For your information, she was performing the "drag-and-drop" from the "events" folder to the predesignated folder she was intending.  Also fyi, some of these pictures were put into multiple folders due to more that one person being in a photograph.  Any info helps.  Thank you.

Hey léonie ,
Thank you for your response. 
iPhoto version is 9.4.2 (710.42)
What she typically does is sort through all of the pictures in iPhoto (we both use the same account), and if she sees people x,y, and z in a photo, she will put a "copy" of that photo in a folder for x, a folder for y, and a folder for z.  And by "copy" I mean that she clicks and drags the photo from what I believe to be from the events (it could be the "master" library that we view I'm not sure, as I don't mess with iPhoto all that often).  She checks to make sure that the photos that she is moving make it into the folder for the designated person.  She moves about this in a methodical manner, as she has 8 siblings, and therefore literally thousands of pictures.  She doesn't want to lose any of this meticulous sorting after hours of work.
Also she just revealed to me that she had just plugged her phone into the computer (to retrieve more pictures off of it) and the computer started to run rather slow.  After that iPhoto quit unexpectedly.  It was reopened to find that the pictures were not in the folder she put them in.  She states that the time that elapsed from the phone plug in to the crash of iPhoto was about a minute or two.
I am not home right now to test for a library corruption, and she wont know what to do if I'm not there.  I'll do so when I get home tonight.

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