Aperture 3.6 - lost edited image settings.

Hi There,
today when I opened Aperture 3.6 all my images previous setting are lost, actually Curves are different from my setting on all images (New Curves have now same straight line on every image like on attached screen shot) and on some image levels settings are different from my settings. It has happened also before with Aperture 3.5 and Maverick, but only with few image, now all of them have lost settings.
Does anyone have same experience or know solution how to avoid to and restore lost settings?
Thank you,
Kalevi
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I deleted the plist file as indicated and restarted my computer. Opened Aperture and still no images in Browser of Split View. Shut Aperture and opened iPhoto just to see if it was the same - and it was - no images other than previews. BTW I have Aperture 3.6 and Yosemite - all the most recent releases.

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