Image files suddenly disappeared

After downloading hundreds of photos from my memory card to my Mac, I revied them, edited a few, and noted down other numbers of photos I wanted to edit later. When I looked for these images (5 min later) they had completely vanished from my drive. Seriously, I looked everywhere for them. They're not in the trash and the Spotlight can't locate them Anywhere. What happened? Has anyone had this happen to them?

Eric, you are a Genius!
thank you very, very much for the tip to use EasyFind. It worked and found the missing files in my Canon download program's trash. I simply selected all and moved them to the picture's library folder they were supposed to go into.
Eric, I would like to thank you properly with a nice photo print. Do you like nature, abstract or ...? please send me your contact info and your preference of subject matter and I'll gladly send you a professional photo for your wall.
thanks!
m.

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Hi,
I have an ipad and lately my files suddenly disappear, my pictures, my music, my videos. I don'n know what is going on. Can anybody help?

It sounds like maybe the iPad is crashing? ....
Double tap the home button at the bottom of the iPad to bring up the recents tray. If you have a lot of apps running you may want to close some of them. Tap and hold down on one of the icons until they wiggle. Then tap the minus sign to close them. When you are done, tap the home button once to return to the home screen.
Then reboot your iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears, then slide to power down.
Hold on the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and then go of the button and let the iPad restart.
You can also try a hard reset by holding down on the sleep button and home button at the same time for about 10 seconds until the Apple logo appears, let go of the buttons and the iPad will restart.
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Nikon D2x NEF + JPEG files, RAW as Master. Has been working fine for weeks, no change in setup of any kind. No crashes until hours after this problem presented today. As recently as yesterday I was round-tripping to Photoshop and exporting from Aperture smooth as silk.
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Allen,
there have been several threads with similar problems of broken references to raw images; in some cases even with managed raw images, that cannot be reconnected, for example:
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One more reason to avoid managed libraries.
The "lsregister" command must exist on your machine. It may move around a bit, because there are many links in the path to current versions.
After the last update I found this direct path (MacOS X 10.8.2):
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Typing "open /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework" into the Terminal will open a Finder window in the directory (as you probably will know )
Added: If newly imported raws are recognized without problems it is unlikely to be a problem of missing raw conversion registration. I am just concerned about the error message you get.
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