Can I retrieve deleted photos?

Thanks for your reply. I did have a back up of multiple files on three different external portable hard drives but all of the photos have now disappeared so that no photos are showing up on my hard drives either. This is why it leads me to believe that somehow my hard drives were wiped when they were plugged into my laptop…

I had taken most of my photos from my iPhoto library and had them in separate files on my three external 500gb hard drives. Now I cannot locate any of the files on any of the drives. Do hard drives immediately sync with your iPhoto when you plug them in & if the old Mac was cleared, has registered with the drives & now cleared Them too?

I haven’t used a program to clean anything, only recall deleting all of the iPhoto images off my old Mac. I still don’t understand how I cannot find any files containing photos on my hard drives. I had on each hard drive a folder called my photos and then within that file I had categorized all photos. For example, I used to live In China but when I type any title of any file containing photos The search for them nothing comes up. Cannot find the file all the photos inside the files.

keith,I believe I’ve tried everything at this point. I logged onto my iCloud last night but due to me having very limited space in my iCloud and, from my understanding, iCloud deleting photos every few days as Moore arrive I could not find any of the photos in my iCloud either. I will check the finder again and see if that makes a difference in accessing the files I’m not sure how it would make much difference

Keith, thanks so much for your help. I really appreciate it. To confirm if I have my iPhone, iPad and my two MacBooks all linked together, sharing photos etc. my deleting of my old MacBook won’t delete my photos across all devices? Is that correct?

I’m still uncertain as to why the hard drives are all Empty of my photo files. My only thought here is that as soon as I plug my hard drives into my empty MacBook iPhoto it is instantly sinking and clearing the drives as well. Can this happen? Thank you again mate. Very much appreciated.