InDesign hasn't saved file changes

I've just spent a whole morning working on a file, and NONE of the changes that I've made to the document have been saved by InDesign.
I've saved regularly as I've gone, and I've received no error messages or warnings from InDesign, yet I've reopened the exact same file, and there are no changes to how it was when I left it yesterday. The modification date says 'Yesterday 17:01,' so the file appears not to have been updated by Indesign.
I've retreived an 'in progress' version from my last Time Machine backup (12:01 today), and a lockfile that was also backed up in Time Machine, and that was next to the file – but nothing. I notice the Lockfile is zero kb, but I don't know if that's usual.
I'm OS X 10.9.2, and InDesign CC 9.2. This is a whole mornings work down the drain, and I'm on a tight schedule in a busy department: how exactly can this happen without even throwing an error?

Kevin,
I can only offer a safer method of saving your files, using a File>Save As instead of a File>Save and using versoining numbers. The advice is solid, and these forums are indexed by search engines, so hopefully my advice will be heeded in years to come,
I know it didn't solve your dilemma, but it wasn't intended to, it was a word of advice, and prior to your latest post, I had no idea how long you were in the industry or what you consider to be safe practices.
It's impossible to know these things unless it's specified before I hit reply...
I'm not an expert on Time Machine, but it's quite possible that your file wasn't saved as the IDLK file prevented the file from being saved - but Time Machine somehow took a saved copy anyway - I'm not sure how that would work though? As that's not my understanding of how Time Machine works.
It's also possible that you saved your file and it was backed up by Time Machine, and then the IDLK was still in place, when you opened InDesign again it referred to the Backup file located (located in Prefereces) to restore an older version of your file.
IDLK files are not always removed when you close InDesign, especially after crashes, the IDLK files can remain, linking InDesign to open Backups of your files saved from the Preferences.
As is my understanding.
If you can easily give a step-by-step of your procedures then why didn't you? How can anyone troubleshoot what went wrong if they can't follow what you did step-by-step?
How you the recoup the lost time is up to you - as I've stated before, safer method of saving your files is to use File>Save As and use versioning numbers, rather than using File>Save and only having 1 version of your file on record. If you follow the Save As rule then you can avoid these diasters.
I have absolutely no idea what you mean when you say "I also appreciate your 'faith' in InDesign's infallibility"
Where in the whole reply did I say that InDesign was "infalliabl[ity]e"?
If you saw this type of behaviour before and were aware of it then why haven't you adopted safer Saving procedures?
For example, I use the File>Save As and versioning numbers. I also have everything saved on a server that's backed up every evening. Those files are shadow copied onto a personal drive on the server, and also on a cloud storage system outside the office.
Look - let's not get into who smells like what...
What happened here was an error with saving your file that you didn't notice. How it happened I don't know because you have refused to give the step-by-steps to recreate the issue.
If I can't recreate the issue I can't offer any advice to how it happened or how to resolve it.

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Let's assume you're correct.
First, It doesn't give me the "Legacy Formate" prompt. I see this pretty often in AI. As I said above, AI saves to the folder that the file was opened from REGARDLESS. ID just saves with no warning. At the very least I should get the prompt, like I do an AI.
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