Why are my folders empty after moving from desktop to documents?

I copied all of my files and folders from the desktop to "documents". They transferred ok and then I deleted them from the desktop. The next day, all of the newly moved folders were there in "documents" but they were all empty.
How can I find and/or recover them?
How can I prevent this?

You can recover them from the backup you have on Time Machine.
If you don't have a backup:There are some third party utilities that might be able to recover the files if you didn't write new data over them. Here's one: Mac Data Recovery to Recover Data on Mac OSX – Stellar Phoenix
How to avoid this in the future:backup anything you don't want to lose.

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