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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1815154" data-attributes="member: 83420">I'm truly sorry that this has happened to you.I think I can explain the loss. Folders cannot contain photographs; only Albums (which do contain photographs, but these are linked to your Photos Library).Deleting the Folders or Albums would not have mattered as they were linked to their source in Photos app; BUT deleting photographs from the Photos app was the killer.&nbsp; With these gone, any Albums, or Folders containing Albums would become empty.Some things you can do:1. Open Photos app and look at the Sidebar on the left.&nbsp; You may see an Album called &quot;Recently Deleted&quot;.&nbsp; Click on it.&nbsp; You might find your deleted photographs there as that is where they go when deleted.2. If your Photos app is gone, or there is no &quot;Recently Deleted&quot; Album:&nbsp; Do you have a Time Machine or other form of Backup (BU) from which the photographs can be retrieved?3. If, when things were working normally, you had selected &quot;iCloud Photo Library&quot; in Photos &gt; Preferences &gt; iCloud, then all your photographs should be stored there.&nbsp; And you can recover them from iCloud by signing in to iCloud via your Browser and selecting Photos.If you didn't select &quot;iCloud Photo Library&quot; previously, then they won't be in the Cloud.Please post back.Ian</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1815154, member: 83420"] I'm truly sorry that this has happened to you. I think I can explain the loss. [U] Folders cannot contain photographs[/U]; only Albums (which do contain photographs, but these are linked to your Photos Library). Deleting the Folders or Albums would not have mattered as they were linked to their source in Photos app; BUT deleting photographs from the Photos app was the killer. With these gone, any Albums, or Folders containing Albums would become empty. Some things you can do: 1. Open Photos app and look at the Sidebar on the left. You may see an Album called "Recently Deleted". Click on it. You might find your deleted photographs there as that is where they go when deleted. 2. If your Photos app is gone, or there is no "Recently Deleted" Album: Do you have a Time Machine or other form of Backup (BU) from which the photographs can be retrieved? 3. If, when things were working normally, you had selected "iCloud Photo Library" in Photos > Preferences > iCloud, then all your photographs should be stored there. And you can recover them from iCloud by signing in to iCloud via your Browser and selecting Photos. If you didn't select "iCloud Photo Library" previously, then they won't be in the Cloud. Please post back. Ian [/QUOTE]

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