All my media files have same name

I was working on my project on Final Cut Studio.
Coming along okay.
Saved the project, went out for an hour.
Came back, opened project, and got a "Reconnect Files" message. In other words, one of my files was (is) missing, and I had to look for it in the hardrive.
Don't know why that happened.
So, I click, "Reconnect", browse to my Hard drive, and I see that all my media files have the same name! except they each have a different number at the end, that is, media file1, media file2, etc. I had given them all different names when I captured the video.
Anyway, I cannot find the file that's missing, nor do I know why the files changed names.
Any ideas why this happened?? I don't mind having to re-capture the missing file, it's just one file. I would mind if it was several. But I would like to know if anyone knows why this occurred, why did i lose this one file.
Thank you.

Where are you capturing to? How are you capturing? What are you naming your clip when you capture? Have you set a limit on capture size? Why?
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Hope to get some help with Elements Organizer.
I have 12-15 years of digital photos that I now want to import into my newly aquirede Adobe Elements Organizer / Photoshop. Since my Nikon names the files with continous numbers from 0001 to 9999 I have multiple files with the same name although they are not alike at all. My previous software had no problems with that since I keep the photos in separate file folders based on import date. I generally import photos after each event and so name the folder with the date and some event info (e.g. 2014.12.24 - Christmas at grandparents).
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