Lightroom deletes photos while moving

When I tried moving photos from one folder to another (drag&drop within the lightroom library as usual), after moving most of the files 3 photos remained and I got an error that those three could not be moved. I checked on the hard drive and the files (dng) where gone - neither in the old, nor in the new folder or the trash bin. Nothing. The previews are still in the old folder within lightroom with the usual exclamation mark of missing files. Any idea where they went or how to get them back? I'm using Lr 5.6 on OS X Yosemite.

Possible solutions:
Restore photos from your backups; if you don't have backups (why not?) then go to option 2
Use an "undelete utility" to see if you can recover the files from your hard drive
This is a rare but recurring problem with Lightroom, despite Adobe's adamant denial that they cannot find any such thing happening after intensive investigation
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Missing 6 months worth of pictures of my kids, HELP!
Re: The lost photos
In the future, you would be wise to not move photos inside of Lightroom. Instead, you could move the photos in your operating system and then reconnect in Lightroom via Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders; or better yet, develop a workflow that does not require moving photos from here to there (problem solved!)

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