Folder disappeared on External Lacie Hard Drive - Mountain Lion

Hi
I had a folder named "Digital Pictures" on my external hard drive where i have stored with "year-month-day folder name" as a folder name. Before I went on a trip last friday, I had copied all the files from my EOS memory card and formatted them on my camera.
Now after the trip, I am trying to copy files, and I see the total folder "Digital Pictures" itself is disappeared. It has thousands of very precious images of my 2 kids and over 7 years of photographs.
I can't locate them. Restarted my mac (Mountain Lion), connected my hard drive on a different mac pro laptop, and I don't see it. I have never deleted it even by mistake which am sure.
Last thursday I had copied lots of files to this folder. That's the latest thing happened in that folder. When I search through spot light for the files modified recently on JPEG kind, I don't see anything on last week.
It's very frustrating, and MAC has been recently failing on me a lot.
If any of you have experienced this type of situation, please assist. Thanks a lot.
Hariharan

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WHERE ARE REDUNDANT SETS BACKUP?
I see and have to wonder, and with 2TB disk drives for $120 (WD RED NAS) there is no reason not to: and data should be on clone, Time Machine, and one other and always have a set beside your work main data, that is off line at all time.
Clone every drive
Use more than one Time Machine drive (just swap one out from time to time so you have a "last month" or something).
DW may not help. It may also.
Data Rescue 3 might. It has a demo.
Using the drive is out of the question for now.
And a dozen years ago I came to see way more, too many, LaCie related issues to ever recommend let alone use theirs (and I was a LaCie Quantum Computer buyer back in early 90's)
So go shopping. Some repacement and spare recovery drives and software and cases - one place to look,
http://www.macsales.com/firewire or Amazon - I buy a lot of WD drives, but never touched a "MyBook" - drives and cases are different matter.
It has thousands of very precious images of my 2 kids and over 7 years of photographs.
I can't locate them. Restarted my mac (Mountain Lion), connected my hard drive on a different mac pro laptop, and I don't see it. I have never deleted it even by mistake which am sure.
Last thursday I had copied lots of files to this folder."

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