Can't locate negatives on HD

iMac 27,quad, Lion, LR4.1 - I successfully completed an Import and processing of about 750 images (reduced down to 350) of birds from a recent trip. The next day while working on a few more images, the evil question mark appeared shortly after a computer blip (unidentified) for all of the images from that download to the present (adding in the 4 or 5 new ones). The folder on the left penal that should have contained them had a question mark as well which I tried to locate and reconnect. That folder dissappeared as soon as I found it on the HD in the main folder with the others for previous dates. There are no folders for the missing dates that I could find. I have tried to searchlight a number of the lost files by title with no luck on the HD. All the thumbnails with question marks are still there but no connections. There were no files in the trash indicating they had been dumped. Before I reload the 750 and start again, does anyone have any suggestions where or how to look for these? I've used LR from the beginning and this is the first time I've faced this particular problem. Thanks in advance for any help.

dgluck1 wrote:
Thanks for your response. I understand and agree with all of your information. Unfortunately, none of it helps me. I didn't do anything I'm aware of that would cause the disconnect between LR and the negatives. They were connected for a week while I worked on them and yesterday the question marks came up and the negatives were no longer on any of my disk drives (except for the unedited backups with different titles that I had not had a chance to replace with the developed ones). I decided to mark this up as a computer glitch and start over with the backups. Shouldn't take me as long as the first time since I can remember most of my choices and development changes. I will, however, do backups as I finish each bird. Life goes on.
Have you ttried using an "undelete utility" to locate and restore the files? I think this is a possible solution in your case. (By the way, we don't need your address and phone number)

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