Lost iPhoto and all my photos

Before the arrival of my new iMac due to damaging my old one, I decided to delete some photos and tidy them up a bit so that the migration would be faster. In my launchpad suddenly two iPhoto icons appear and one said iPhoto (copy). Unfortunately I deleted this without checking it and emptied the trash can which then said 'deleting 3500 photos'. I had deleted a lot of photos so did not realise that I was deleting all my photos and let it continue. When I fired up the mac the next morning the iPhoto would not open and made me set up a new library which of course had nothing in it! Before you ask;
1) I had not backed them up (I know feel free to shout at me!!). You will be pleased to know I have now bought an external HD BIG lesson learnt.
2) I have tried to rebuild iPhoto following advice on the forums, this just rebuilt the new one.
3) I have tried to find the old iPhoto file by following advice on apple support and you tube.
4) I have recovered some photos from photo stream and luckily I had lots on Facebook that I have been able to pull through. I still have about 2000 missing
Everyone I speak to says don't worry it should be on your hard drive! But I am worried because I can't see anything anywhere that relates to my old file. Any help or advice would be GRATEFULLY received.

CSOUND is correct.
Get a copy of Data Rescue 4 by PROSOFT.
I have used older versions in the past with some success.
However, if this is a hardware failure of the hard drive, no data recovery software would be able to recover much data.
I lost the magnetic heads to a laptop drive many years ago and nothing worked.
Of course the computer would not boot either.
Be sure to read the directions before loading any software including Data Rescue.
You want to avoid using that machine so data that you want is not overwritten.
Good luck.
After doing this, be sure to get a pair of external hard drives.
Use one for time machine.
Use the other for a SuperDuper bootable back up.
Finally, sign up for an internet back up service such as Crash Plan.
With three backup schemes, your data should be preserved for many years.
If one mechanically fails the other backup should work.
If your computer systems and hard drives are destroyed by a fire or stolen, the internet backup will save you.

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