Help! All of my photos are "missing".

I currently have Lightroom 3. I was working on my blog earlier, and all of my photos were there. Once I finished w/ my blog, I got back into lightroom. One by one, the little question mark appeared in each photo of my film strip. I checked each of the folders I had and they all did the same thing. When I try to recover the photos, they can't be found. Most of the files in Lightroom were digital negatives. Once I exported them to my hard drive, I changed them to jpeg. Since the files don't match, is there any way to recover the original digital negaitives in Lightroom? I am also missing some jpeg files in Lightroom and all of my presets/templates!
I do have my whole computer backed up on an external hard drive. I'm just not sure how to recover the photos.

eckreauter wrote:
I currently have Lightroom 3. I was working on my blog earlier, and all of my photos were there. Once I finished w/ my blog, I got back into lightroom. One by one, the little question mark appeared in each photo of my film strip. I checked each of the folders I had and they all did the same thing. When I try to recover the photos, they can't be found.
How did you do the search that resulted in "can't be found"?
Did you at any time move the photos or folders (or rename them) outside of Lightroom? Did your drive with the photos change letters/change name?
Most of the files in Lightroom were digital negatives. Once I exported them to my hard drive, I changed them to jpeg.
I have no idea what you mean by this. It sounds like you are saying you changed your digital negatives to JPG, but that can't be right. What did you change to jpg? How did you do this? Please explain further

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