LR catalog and backup vanishes

A nice little surprise just now when I opened LR. I got a dialog box titled Confirm with a header saying 'Lightroom catalog was not found.' Then 3 lines saying catalog at blah blah could not be found and would I like to locate and existing catalog or create a new one. I searched my system for any occurence of each of the 3 listed files, .lrcat, .lrdb and .aglib using various wild card combos but could find no such files.
I had done about half a dozen full imports as I've never trusted LR but use it mainly for ongoing testing purposes in my business. I had done backups per LR's routine but no offline backups as the imports/metadata wasn't critical. I've had no system or LR crashes and just used LR a few hours earlier.
A rather odd issue to say the least and I'm glad I wasn't using it for prime time use. I woulda been backing up externally as I do all other data but we all know the gaps that can occur between data change and backups.
Just a FYI for the developers,
VG

Yep, right where they always were before:
C:\Documents and Settings\COMP\My Documents\My Pictures\Lightroom
I could possibly do an unerase search and find the old cats, but I don't care at this point as nothing valuable was lost.
VG

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Norman, OK
405_514-4875 (call collect)
[email protected]

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ORIGINAL name: P5110178.JPG                                     2001:05:11 15:27:18    2001:05:11 15:27:18-07:00        2001:01:17 11:29:00        2011:01:17 11:29:00-07:00       2005:04:24 14:41:05
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http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/backup-restore-move-catalog-photoshop.html
You specify a master folder on the new external drive for the custom location. That will also move the catalog folder to the new drive, but you can choose to move it back to the default location on your C: drive.
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This is what happens:
LR does not see the photo's are already there. The option to import only the metadata is grayed out. It is not possible to tell LR where it should import the photo's. Then LR could see the files are already there and it only has to import the metadata changes.
Because I need to work on my photo's in the studio and on location this is realy a big problem.
I know I can work from a external disk on both computers. But that will slow down the workflow extremely because the catalog and the photo's are on the same disk. There are 261.216 photo's in this catalog. So export as a catalog back and forth is not a option.
Using Export As A Catalog also is a problem.
When I import new photo's from my camera (card) it is possible to tell LR where to store the files using a Date Format.
I use YYYY / YYYY-MM / YYYY-MM-DD:
But when I want to Import From A Other Catalog and tell LR where to store the files it does not see the folder structure already exciting. This a root problem. So it will put the folders where I direct it to and then I have to move the new photo's manually to the correct folders.
If the folder already excists it cannot merge them. In that case I have to move the new photo's from each day into the appropriate folder for each day !
This folder structure is important for me because many older photo's are not taged, but are easy to be found by date.
I probably are overlooking something and the solution is very simple. But I cannot find it ...
QUESTION : can anyone tell me what would be the best workflow in my case ? And still have a fast system ?

Here's what I do with the laptop/desktop workflow. Dedicate an big, fast external drive and place ALL Photo's, LR's catalog and presets (set preferences to Store Preset's with Catalog). You have one drive that has all the data you need to access your images and database on any number of computers. All the computer needs is a working copy of Lightroom. Clone that external drive to the backup drive, a 2nd external. Make as many clone's as you wish (one offsite, one in a fire proof safe, one to take on location etc). When one drive has newer data, just clone that to the others, they are all now in sync. One catalog. One master drive. The drive has all images and necessary associated files LR needs to work with (the expectation is lens and DNG camera profiles, the later can be embedded into a DNG and is thus on the drive too).

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