Lightroom 3 help with two hard drives that has missing folders

Ok so I am operating on Lepoard osx using lightroom 3.  I have two external hard drives we will call them A and B.  I have used the existing catalog for a while in hard drive B.  Hard drive A is where I done the most work on photos.  I have imported a ton of photos from hard drive A and exported them etc. I'm not sure what happened exactly but, the folders that should be in Hard Drve A are now in Hard B and they have question marks next to them.  I then right clicked on the folders in Hard Drive B and located them in Hard Drive A.  I then made a new cataloge in hard drive A and closed Lightroom.  I opened up Lightroom and told Lightroom to use the new cataloge I created.  when it opend the folders were back in hard drive B.  What is going on?  Can any one help?
Thanks
Calvin

I'm not sure why this is happening to you but I would suggest that you use Mac Finder to make sure where these folders actually are - on drive A, on drive B, or - maybe - on both?
Only when you know where the folders are can you start rectifying the situation in Lr.
If you find that you have folders on both drives - and you don't want that - consolidate all folders into one drive. Do this in Mac Finder but - at this point - do not rename folders or change the folder structure, if you can help it.
When - according to Mac Finder - everything is as it should, open LR and locate all the folders that show question marks.
Also, it doesn't help when you tell Lr to create a new catalog every time something is not right. Having more than one catalog tends to be confusing, and - unless you are very experienced in Lr - brings trouble.
Since your different catalogs are probably contradictory I would suggest that you do NOT merge them to create one catalog. Instead - after everything is fine again - move all the other catalogs into a different folder so that Lr does not find them (but memorize the location). If after a while you decide that you don't need the other - moved - catalogs, you can delete them. From then on, it would be preferable that you work only with one catalog.

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