Lightroom folders disappeared (not missing)

This is a real pain : ( & I will personally bestow a medal on anyone who can solve !
ok, i have all my photos on an external drive (together with the lrcat), for weeks i've been able to plug the drive in and it shows all folders I've created in lightroom. Plugged the drive in today and only half of the folders now show, interestingly it's the last half of alphabetically sorted folders which are missing - and yep have tried scrolling down !
The lightroom folders view on the left shows about 3500 photos for the external drive however 'All photograhs' at the top of the folder view reads 7000 odd and if i click on 'All folders' i can see all photos including those missing

Did some of the folders get moved underneath one of the other folders? You might try "Show In Library" on one of the photos that is apparently missing, but shows up when you click on All Photos, and see what LR folder path the photo shows up in. If the folders are not moved or unexpectedly displaying elsewhere in the folder structure, then:
LR3b could easily have a bug in displaying things or the catalog could have a slight issue that's stopping it from showing all the in the folders. LR is also easily confused if you change the casing of a folder or drive letter.
Backup your current catalog, first (w/o testing or reorganizing), then see what happens if you reorganize your catalog and test integrity? What happens if you open your last backup catalog, are the folders there?

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:27:15 -0700
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Subject: Folders disappear once imported?
    Re: Folders disappear once imported?
    created by Rikk Flohr in Photoshop Lightroom - View the full discussion
If you click the little triangle on the right side of your Hard Drive icon in the Folders Panel, do they appear?
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