How did an entire folder of image files just disappear from my computer?

Could you have accidentally moved them to another folder? You could always run a search on your system for ”*.jpg” or whatever your file extension is to see if they still exist somewhere.

yea great point I run a application where when I put .jpg files on my desk top it automatically puts them in iPhoto. Definetly do a disk search

Could it be that you created two folders in the beginning, saved to one and then decided to check the other by accident? Also, sometimes I think I’m saving a file or folder in one place and end up saving it in a different, similarly named place. Perhaps all those saves you were making were to a different folder on your computer. See if your “recent documents” menu gives you the pictures you were editing and then click on one of them to see where the rest of them might be.

image elves!!! Happens to me all the time!!!

Thanks you guys. As it turns out…I moved the folder (drag and drop). For some reason, the folder (empty) was still showing up on my desktop. I found my images in the original folder that I moved to another spot. What a mess!

sounds a good result, thanks to god you have found out your images, but mine went to heaven!!