Album of photos disappeared after Photoshop froze and iMac was restarted!

[Alejandro Leal Mty]

A complete album dissapeared after Photoshop became unresponsive and restarted my iMac. I was a at the moment just working with a simple mask on a photograph... Photoshop has been crashing often on a daily basis and sometimes more than once, but making disappear a complete album is simply unacceptable. The biggest issue is that I had downloaded the photos using Image Capture App and erased them after downloading finished using this same app, so I cannot find a way to recover those important and unrepeatable pictures. Any help or solution? thanks

[kevin stohlmeyer]

Album? Are you using Photoshop Elements? 

What are your specs? Mac OS, HD Space, RAM, PS Version, where is/was the album located? 

[Nancy OShea]

If you saved images to your HD as one would expect, it's still there unless your hard drive is failing.

[kevin stohlmeyer]

If you are saving to an external drive - it needs to be properly formatted or the Mac OS will not read it properly. It has to be formatted as ExFat for the newer (Catalina, Big Sur) Mac Os.