Aperture Projects Disappearing out of the Library

Aperture 2.1 3C27
I have been using Apple computers for over 15 years and Aperture since it was released.
Some of my Aperture library today disappeared from the desktop. This has now happened on two different machines. On another occasion I was working on a library and there were 4 projects. 2 of the projects have disappeared from the library. This happened as I was transferring some images to an external hard drive. I have tried rebuilding the library and regenerating the thumbnails. I have also gone to "Show Package contents" and there are only two projects in there, so ontologically only 2 exist. This is disconcerting to say the least and has erased hours of work. Has anyone else had similar problems or know of a way to prevent this?
Jason

I have just had the same thing happen. I would say about 95% of my projects are missing!!! If I look at the default Library I only see about 5 projects when I know there are about 109 projects (correctly stated on the opening splash) and 5000 photos. It correctly sees over 500o images in the All Photos smart folder, but none of the projects or albums!
I looked inside the aperture library.aplibrary and the approject objects are there.... just not in the aperture!
I have added about 4GB in the last 2 days, and I did have a hard restart today, but have run onyx and checked permissions, all else seems to be fine. I do run this on a filevault account (no choice - work).
Help! what can I do?
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