Lightroom 5.2 - files are missing from hard drive after Import

I am using Lightroom 5.2, Windows 7.
I imported files into Lightroom from my hard drive and now those folders on my hard drive are empty and the photos are gone from Lightroom as well.
Help!

Not sure if move or add was selected; what is the default? I did do a preliminary search of my hard drive but interrupted it because it was taking so long. I will let it finish searching. I must have moved them. They're not in the recycle bin.
There is a catalog for both Lightroom 4 and 5. I upgraded the Lightroom 4 catalog but that didn't help.

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