Help, Help, Help!!! I deleted pictures and they are not in the trash......

I created a folder on iPhoto with sub albums in it. I cut and pasted pictures out of other folders into my newly created ones. Afterwards I deleted the old folder. Doing so, it deleted the new ones I had made as well. When I looked in the trash, nothing was there, and I didn't empty the trash or anything. Is there any way that I can retrieve these lost folders???

Sorry I don't mean to nitpick, but to understand exactly what you're saying:
I had an album on iPhoto. This album had sub albums or folders within it. (Album A)
No you didn't. Albums can't have "sub-albums or folders", they can contain only photos. Neither can Events. The only item in the iPhoto Window that can contain albums or other folders are Folder.
This is important, why? Because if you're working in an Album or Folder then you're working on a Refernece to a file. Working in the Library (i.e in an Event or Photos view) is directly accessing the file.
I edited the pictures within these folders
Unless you specifically create a duplicate first, when you edit any instance of a photo you edit all instances of a photo. So, in other words, edit a pic in an album and you edit the pic in the Library as well.
I created a new album with new sub folders (Album B)
Again, not an album...
I cut and pasted photos out of the sub folders in Album A and and put them into sub folders of Album B
I'm sorry but you simply cannot do this in iPhoto.
A sa general rule: if you delete something from the Library, it's deleted for all Albums as well. If you delete something from an Album then it's only deleted from the Album.
Folders cannot contain photos, they can only contain Albums.
Sorry again, my intention is not to nitpick but until we can understand what's happened we cannot know how to progress.
Regards
TD

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