I imported photos on to my mac from a memory card and now I can't find them?

I have a Macbook Air 2013, I imported my photos off on my memory card (its a SanDisk SD card) when it asked me if i wanted to delete them, I deleted them all off of my card. And now about a week maybe even a few days later I can't find them for the life of me! I think I searched pretty much everywhere for them and I still can't find not one photo that I imported. Although the photos I imported to my iPhone showed up. But that is it! 3,000 photos, GONE!

Did you try the All my Files sidebar section in the Finder (assuming you are running a version of OSX that has that) and or a search through the computer for any image files on it recently?

Either should help find them assuming they were properly imported in the 1st place.

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