I accidentally moved my iPhoto library. Now it says "folder empty" and I can't find any of my photos anywhere. HELP!

I was trying to clean up my startup disk and get some space freed up. I moved a bunch of stuff to my dropbox (temporary measure until I get a backup drive). I didn't realize my iphoto library is actually in my documents folder. I copy the whole folder to dropbox, and then delete the contents on my hard drive. When I go to dropbox and look at my iphoto library, it's empty. Are my photos just gone? Can they be recovered? HELLLLPPP!!!!

By default your iPhoto library is in the pictures folder not the documents folder - you should have it in the pictures folder to avoid errors like this
You probably lost your iPhoto library as generally the iphoto library is corrupted often beyond repair by putting it on DropBox - as a future note NEVER delete any important files until you have verified that you have a good copy -- and also for the future purchase an external drive formatted Mac OS extended (jourmnaled) roughly 2 to 2 1/2 times the size of your main drive and start running TimeMachine all the time so you have hourly local backups
If you do not have a backup then all you can do it drag the iPhoto library back form DropBox to the pictures folder and hold down the option key while launching iPhoto and select the library n the pictures folder - if that does not work then you will have to start over - hopefully your Masters folder is intact and has all of you original photos - to start over drag it to the desktop, trash the messed up library and launch iPhoto to create a new library and drag the folders of photos from the Masters folder to iPhoto to import them
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