How do I recover photos that are in my library but I can't find the files?

After uploading pics of a car accident I was involved in (to iPhoto 6), I moved them to a separate folder. Now they appear at the top of the iPhoto screen in the Library, and the information appears in the lower left hand corner, but I can't view them, and they're no longer in the folder I moved them to.
These pics might save me a lot of money, so I would very much appreciate a solution.

It is strongly advised that you do not move, change or in anyway alter things in the iPhoto Library Folder as this can cause the application to fail and even lead to data loss
Where did you move them to? Did you do this using the Finder? This would explain why iPhoto can't find them.
Of course you backed up this important data, right?
Try a spotlight search for them
Kind -> Images
Size -> greater than -> 100kb
Search the whole comuter. It'll find every image.
If they're not in there, then you have trashed them.
You may have some luck revocering them using something like File Salvage
Regards
TD

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-dav7
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okay thanks - that worked.
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:17:19 -0600 "Barbara B." <[email protected]>
writes:
Do you mean from the organizer? Right click one (shift-click or
ctrl-click to select multiple photos first if you want to do more
than one at a time), then choose "delete from catalog". A window
will pop up asking if you also want to delete from your hard drive.
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If you just mean from the editor or the mac version, just close the
file(s) there.
>

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