5000 Photos Gone

This may be an external drive questions, but I thought someone could help.
I downloaded most of my iPhotos from iPhoto to a new Iomega external HD. I also donwloaded some other files. Took like 45 minutes. Made sure files were on external HD.
I then disconnected the external HD and deleted most of the photos in iPhoto to free up space.
I then plugged the external Iomega HD back in to make sure the 5000 photos were there. Only the 450 remaining that I did not delete were on the external HD. The other files I put on HD were there. What happened? What can I do to get all photos back? I know Iomega has a data recovery deal, but i was hoping there was something simplar
Any info. would helps. Most of the photos are of my kids.
Thanks.

I downloaded most of my iPhotos from iPhoto to a new Iomega external HD. I also donwloaded some other files. Took like 45 minutes. Made sure files were on external HD.
What version of iPhoto do you have?
How did you do this?
The correct way is to drag the iPhoto library as a single entity to the desktop and then drag it to external hard drive and (if you have iPhoto 4) launch iPhoto and it will ask for the library location
I then disconnected the external HD and deleted most of the photos in iPhoto to free up space.
I then plugged the external Iomega HD back in to make sure the 5000 photos were there. Only the 450 remaining that I did not delete were on the external HD. The other files I put on HD were there. What happened? What can I do to get all photos back? I know Iomega has a data recovery deal, but i was hoping there was something simplar
You probably just deleted old photos from the library on your internal hard drive - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library to the desktop and launch iPhoto -it should ask for the location of the iPhoto library - point to the one on the external hard drive
LN

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Ha ha ha, ha ha.
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