All yesterday's Lightroom changes lost - any hope?

I just opened up Lightroom to finish up a project that I had gotten 95% rated/developed yesterday. However, none of the changes I made yesterday appear in the files: no ratings, no develop settings, nothing. I back up my catalogs daily, but hadn't backed up that work after doing it.
I *really* don't want to re-do a days worth of editing and rating. Is this information saved somewhere? Any hope?
I'm positive I'm opening the correct catalog, not a previous backup. Unfortunately, I haven't been writing changes to xmp files, although I'm going to do that in the future. Bleh
Thanks for any help you can offer!

Ok, one last thought on this and why you might have experienced this issue.
Is it possible you opened a backup catalog, not to check the work you did, but to do the actual work. Then when you opened the latest catalog, of course those changes would show.
Only way of knowing would be to open each of the backups. If there was no crash then the experience is indeed odd and the lesson you will no doubt have learned is to progress slowly and double check backups and perhaps be dilligent with writing out to xmp/DNG.

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