Very important Photo of last visit with Grandpa before his passing and others gone can you help me please?

Question

I accidentally cut photo's from an event instead of copy but I posted in a new event. I closed the new event and opened it back up. when I opened up the new event my photo's were all there.  I copied the photo's from new event to put back into original old event. It wouldn't allow me to paste in the old event. SO I thought I must of not clicked copy like I thought so I went back to copy and my new event and all the photos disappeared. There is no backup found on itunes, no recovery software has recovered it. We've looked in  the show package contents area of the iphoto in Finder. The event or pictures are no where to be found. These pictures were taken from my iphone and I imported them to iphoto a while back. I have not backed up the pictures  becuase I don't know how. I've never had this issue and an event and photo's shouldn't just disappear like they never happened. There are 25 photos total but about 5 of them are most important to me. I've tried running a backup recovery of my phone with software and on the computer and only thing they find is photo's I already know where they are. If you have any suggestions help info please let me know. Thanks

Answer 1

I just performed the rebuild. It put a bunch of empty folders into my library that I had deleted in the past. But no where is the one folder that I had made yesterday with my 25 photos. I checked the orginial folder that I took them from and not there. It's odd that it's like they never exisited. So broken hearted. The last photo I had with my husband and I in it with his grandpa before he died is gone. Unless there is a way to get it off a back up on my phone somewhere. All of my photos' are backed up from my PC but nothing since owning this computer. cause this itunes icloud time machine stuff has me confused but will have to get the pictures printed and burned that I do have. That's what I was working on yesterday when this happened. Chose my first 25 I wanted to print and lost them and I"m afraid to touch the others now.