File with all photos disappeared

Hi all,
     A few days ago, I finished sorting out my thousands of pictures out into neat files, which I then stored on a main file on my Desktop. When I was done, I dragged that file from the Desktop to Finder, under the menu on the left, where it says Downloads, Documents, etc. It stayed put, so I moved on to do other things.
     Today, I noticed it's not there! I've searched for the file everywhere, and looked in Trash, of course. There is no way I would have deleted that file. And if I had, it would still be in my Trash, along with all the other things I have in there from over a month ago (the last time I cleared out the Trash).
     I just used a data recovery program, and as I thought, there is nothing to be found. There must be literally thousands of pictures in that file, and I need them back! Any ideas? I'm a first time MAC user, and for now, I'm hating it

I'm not sure what you mean by: When I was done, I dragged that file from the Desktop to Finder, under the menu on the left, where it says Downloads, Documents, etc. and figuring out what you actually did is likely to be important.
Do you remember the name of any of the pictures? If so, click on the magnifying class up in the top right of the menubar to get the Spotlight search window. Type in the name of the picture file and wait a second. (Typing in a partial name will work too, as will typing in an extender such as .jpg)
If you scroll down to the bottom of the list of found items you should see the option Show all in Finder... which will open a window with everything that was found. Double click on that option to open that window.
If/When you find one of your pictures, select it in the window and look at the bottom of the window. You should see a disk hierarchy showing the location of the picture. That should help you figure out where the main folder is hiding so you can go find it and place it in the Pictures folder of your drive space.

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