Help recovering deleted photos?

I recently went on a trip and took a lot of pictures. Most of these were transfered successfully from my camera (a Canon PowerShot SD850 IS) to my computer (a MacBook) via iPhoto 6. However, with the last batch of photos, iPhoto unexpectedly quit in the middle of the transfer. Given that I had -- apparently stupidly -- set it to delete the pictures from my camera after transferring them to my computer, the pictures are no longer on my camera. However, I guess iPhoto quit before the pictures were saved, because they do not appear anywhere there either. I have searched for ways to recover pictures from the camera's memory card, but these seem very complicated and/or expensive. I was hoping that there might be a way to recover them from the computer, given that it seems that they were transferred and just not properly saved. Does anyone know if this is possible? If not, do you know any other way I can recover my pictures? It would be very sad to have lost them completely!
Thank you!
Dana

The sure way is to use a data recover program like media recover - http://freshcrop.com/ - you can search these forums
Some people have found their photos in a temporary folder within the iPhoto library - possibly yours are too
If you go digging around in the iPhoto library be sure your backup is up to date - you could really mess things up - and be extremely careful not to make any changes of any sort to the content or structure of the iPhoto library
And in the future it is recommended that you never allow iPhoto (or any program) to automatically delete photos form your camera - always finish the operation and properly unmount the camera and later (I wait for at least one backup cycle) use the camera format command to erase the card and renew its format
LN
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