Aperture 3 loses my adjustments

I spent a long while editing my photos to only find out that when I restart Aperture 3 the adjustments are gone!?! This seems to be a new bug in a long long long line of bugs for Aperture 3. I have been using Aperture 3 for about a month and this is the first time I have lost all my adjustments, does anyone have a suggestion on how to get them back? If not Aperture 3 is rendered useless to me.

Hey arb,
Thanks for the offer. This is new to me too, it just started happening the images shows the adjustment icon as if changes have been made and for a split second when the image preview loads you see the adjustments but then the image loads and the adjustments are gone both from the image and the adjustment tab.
As per your questions:
-The problem is happing with every type of image, both RAWs from my D300, Medium format negs, 35mm slides etc. (scans come from Epson V750)
-Yes I have the vault backed up but I have not restored it yet as I will loose my most current project. (where the problem began)
-Yes I have repaired my library and it did nothing.
Any thoughts?
Mike:)

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Path: /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture
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Build Info: Aperture-1310000~1
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [97]
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Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 562 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 4
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 97 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 4
Anonymous UUID: 18D84CE6-F6DD-4BFE-83E8-F87DA57DA7BF
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One other thing. I have tried RAW images from a Nikon D80 Nikon D700 and Fuji S3. All RAW files crash when I do this task. Message was edited by: Nikontraveler
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Recently I decided to backup my Aperture Library to the cloud and decided to sync it to Google Drive.
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All of my photos had the little yield sign with the curved arrow.
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I would restart everything and try again.
In to top half of the dialog, select only one image. Do not try to select more than one.
Match it to the corresponding Master shown in the file browser in the bottom half of the dialog. Click "Reconnect All".
You might do this for only one Project. For me it's always worked regardless of how many Projects the files w. missing Masters come from. I filter Photos view for "File Status" is "Missing, select all, and bring up the Locate Referenced Files" dialog.
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No, it does not. You can't re-create information that is lost. When the information the camera gathered was saved to a file, some of it was lost because of the JPG file format. Converting to TIFF won't bring back the lost information.
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