My 12 000 photos disappeared, time machine does not

I went to the pictures and it is empty! I tried to restore from Time Machine and it does not work. Help!

dragonfly9 wrote:

I went to the pictures and it is empty! I tried to restore from Time Machine and it does not work. Help!

You mean IPHOTO?  and you load your photos in IPHOTO - or just a reference to another folder?

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