New Photo/Video Import Lost Due to Power Cut - Any Ideas?

I am using OS X 10.9.1, and iPhoto '08, V7.1.5. My iMac was in the closing stages of a photo/video import from my iPhone 5 when a power cut occured. I had thought the photos would already be in the new album that I'd just created because I had just been asked the question Keep or Delete Original Photos (I responded DELETE). When I restarted after the power cut, the new iPhoto album contained nothing at all, and 80% of the originals had been deleted off my iPhone. I have tried looking in the main iPhoto library and Last Import folder with no joy. Is there anythig else that I can try please?

Quick update to say that I found them! I convinced myself that when the power cut occured, there's no way that a few GB of media could be instantly deleted, and thus they must be somewhere on the HD.......similar to data getting stored in a TEMP folder on a PC. I managed to access the main LIBRARY folder via Finder >> GO >> OPTION KEY and then did a search for one of the photo numbers that I knew was missing. Amazingly found it together with all the other 588 missing photos & movies buried in a folder called 26Dec2013_2 (strange considering this happened on 01Jan2014 and all the photos/media were from the period 27Dec to 01Jan). Note that my earlier search of the entire iPhoto Library package had also proved fruitless. Not sure where that folder was actually residing, but I copied the entire contents to my Desktop and then imported them into iPhoto. In short, I am so happy! Lesson learned about the dangers of power cuts, especially living in a city short on energy. I will not do that again. Hope this helps someone else sometime in the future. Thanks.

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