Lost Downloaded Photos

I downloaded photos from an external hard drive. When I tried moving the photos folder
To iPhoto I lost all of the photos. They are no longer In the downloads folder and they are not in iPhoto. Where are they? How do I recover them?

No idea - how about some information
What version of iPhtoo? Of the OS? What exactly did you do and how did you do it?
Importing photos to iPhoto has no effect on the source photo so your post does not make sense
The most basic answer it to launch iPhoto and drag the photos form the External drive to the iPhoto window which imports them into iPhoto ahas no effect on the photos on the EHD
LN

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Good afternoon Lyssa,
Phew. First of all, thanks in advance...these blogs are always comforting help!
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1. You did not get an error message telling you that your iPhoto library was getting full. You got a message telling you that your HD was getting full, right?
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Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
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