Iphotos were put in the trash by mistake. How do I retrieve them?

Over 1700 images including photos were put in the trash by mistake. How do I undo or retrieve them?

Best solution is to restore your backup - this is exactly why you must always have a good one
Short of that you will have to start over (unless your can restore each file to its exact location prior to being deleted - probalby not possible) - drag the currently bad library to the desktop until yo finish just in case you need something from it, depress the option key and launch iPhoto and create a new library - drag the largest version of each photo to the iPhoto icon in the dock to import it
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If you've emptied the trash, ehtn no. However if you have a backup, like Time Machine, or a recent backup copy of your photo library you could recover the photos from the trash.
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I put My photos in trash by mistake. How do I undo ?

If you didn't empty the iPhoto Trash bin select all the photos in the Trash, Control (right) - click and select Put Back from the contextual menu.
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You can drag them out of the trash folder to wherever you wish. There is no automatic way to restore them.
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i Accidentally deleted my iPhoto's and cleared the trash . Is there any way to recover them ? Please ! Thank you

You can recover your photos only if you have got a backup of them. If you did not make any backup, I am sorry but they are lost. You can give data recovery applications a try, but you will spend money and they may not work.
It is very important to make backups of your files, so in this case you would recover them quickly, or in case of a computer failure.

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I a first time Mac-user and running MAC OS Lion so there's a lot that isn't familiar to me and I'm towards the bottom of a fairly steep learning curve. I'm having a similar problem - I'm importing pictures to iPhoto and I've deleted a couple of them but they don't appear in my Trash folder (which is on my Dock). Now it's possible that I'm being a bit dumb and missing something very obvious but I've read through this article and I don't see how it addresses the issue.
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If you didn’t empty the Trash, drag them out.
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My husband has retrieved emails from my exchange email account. I deleted them from the trash bin. How is he doing this?

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My husband has retrieved emails from my exchange email account. I deleted them from the trash bin. How is he doing this?
OK, let's come back to the original issue; how are deleted messages retrievable?
First, is the account set up as an Exchange account or a POP account? I'll assume it's Exchange. If it were POP the answer is obvious.
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