HELP! Big Sur Photos Hiding in "Other"
I just updated my 2015 15" MBP from Mojave to Big Sur. Everything went smoothly except all of my photos are missing. I had roughly 500GB of photos stored in a folder "Photos" on the Macintosh HD main folder (along with Applications, Library, System, Users).
Now that Photos folder is missing and spotlight can't find any of my photos. However, under About this Mac / Storage, there is 538GB showing in "Other". Clicking on Manage, the other is only about 500 GB in "Other", with the rest being System and other users.
So it appears that my photos are still on the drive, but hidden. What do I need to do to recover these? They are backed up on an NAS, but I figured it would be easier to restore them. If only I knew how...
Thanks!
MacBook Pro Retina