A whole familiy of files disappeared from all devices

I'm a photographer and use a good system of backup.
Retina MacBook Pro backed up to an external hard drive manually.
This external hard drive is backed up to another external hard drive via Carbon Copy Cloner.
Now this happened:
I have an important image, from which I had eight versions, all layered files, and five versions as flattened files, I had JPEGs of different sizes.
A total of about 20 files in different folders, formats.
Now they are all gone. I don't have a single copy of that image any more (except one in a different folder).
I checked my backup - the files are not there.
I checked the Carbon Copy Cloner backup - the files are all gone.
I checked the archive folder where Carbon Copy cloner puts deleted items. It's not there, either. This is mysterious. Should I have accidentally deleted all those files (which I deem impossible), at least one copy should be in the Carbon Copy Cloner archives.
It's as if the files are suddenly invisible, because should they have gotten deleted by accident, and the backup would also delete them, then Carbon Copy Cloner would save those deleted files into the archive folder.
I checked. All deleted files are there, except this one image, including all variations.
Could they be hidden?
What could have happened?

The issue has been resolved. Pilot error. I couldn't find a way to delete this discussion. Thanks!

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