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Deleted all movie files by mistake! HELP!

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Hi. I did something stupid. I'm hoping someone can help me find my files with time machine.

OK so I was running very low on HD space so I tried to work out what was taking up so much space. I clicked on "all movies" under the "search for" heading on the left side of a window. Sorry - I have no idea what the correct terms are? So here I saw all my movies that I've taken over the past 5 years and realised how huge it was. I've got a 2Tb external HD so I thought I could highlight and drag all these files onto my external HD. It was about 100Gig. I started the copying process and went to bed. The next morning I checked and everything was copied over nicely. I then went to the "all movies" area and deleted all the files I could see there. BUT I didn't realised this was mucking around with the ones I had just copied to the external HD. Now when I look at it all the movies are zero K. I can also see them in the iphoto app but they won't open and play.

I know I should have worked straight in iphoto and what I did was stupid.

I have time machine backups so I've gone into it but I can't figure out where the movie files are. When I do a search it's still not showing anywhere.

Can anyone help me, please. Thanks.
 
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If they were in the ipho library you can restore the entireiphoto library file. It's in your Pictures folder
 

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