IPhoto lost recent photos

Hi there,
i´m new here and hope someone can help me.
I put a new HD in my macbook pro and restored via time machine. Everything went fine but, in iPhoto the last event thumbnails are empty and when i open the event, the thumbnails are empty to, expect i choose special size for the thumbnails, then were all thumbnails shown. when i klick the thumbnails a white exclamation mark.
I searched via time machine, but found only the same empty events saved..so i think time machine made a mistake.
Also the originals cant be found in the iPhoto library.
Anyone a suggestion, how i can restore these photos?
Thanks & Regards
shotekitehi

Welcome to Apple Discussions,
If the photos are missing in Time Machine but all the other pictures show up fine, that suggests not an issue with Time Machine, but rather, an issue with these photos or the manner in which they were imported. If you want to test Time Machine to make sure it is working (which is not a bad idea), add a new picture to iPhoto. Run a Time Machine backup. Then go into the Time Machine backup and see if the pictures are there. If they are then you know Time Machine is fine.
If I had to guess, I would say that at the time they were imported you had the "Copy to iPhoto library" option unchecked. This would have left the pictures in question wherever they started from (on the camera, on the internet, on your desktop, in your email, etc.) and when you removed the originals (unplugged the camera, moved them off the desktop, etc.) they lost their connection to iPhoto.
This option is found in the iPhoto Preferences and should always be left checked off unless you have a very specific reason for unchecking it:
However this may not be the case.
Follow this article to attempt to find the missing pictures by name (which should still be visible in iPhoto when you click on the pictures and then click on the information button): http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1995. If you can locate the pictures on the computer you can drag them into the iPhoto icon in your dock which will import a fresh working copy to iPhoto:
If these pictures are available from their original source (like a camera) just re-import them.
If they came from a camera and you already deleted them from the camera you can also attempt to recover them from the media card of your camera using data recovery software. Here are a few examples:
http://www.joesoft.com/products/klix.php
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&cPath=201&productsid=3
Hope that helps.

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