Yup. I read a lot before posting on here and read about the jpeg, which all my photos are luckily, haha. Thanks for the reply though. So no fix there…BUT
After doing some research I found that it was my impatients that was causing the problem.
I figured a few minutes would be enough time for things to sync.
What I didnt realize is that the images are converted to work with the iphone/ipad and that takes a while. After waiting 15-30 minutes everything showed up, even fixed the issue of not finding the folder that I deleted.