Most recent import disappears when backing up

I back up to an external Lacie drive automatically 3x a week using Super Duper. I recently discovered that my most recent photo import was gone. I had erased mym emory card in my camera after I knew my disk had backed up (so those photos are gone for good), but I've experimented with importing more photos and whenever the backup runs, the newly imported photos disappear from iPhoto. They are neither on my internal or external
I've also noticed that any changes I make to my iPhoto library also happen simultaneously to the library on my external backup drive. Is this supposed to happen?
What's up with this? Thanks for any help.

It sounds like you have been inadvertently using the backup library instead of your main one. That would explain why the new imports were lost when your backup ran - they weren't on the library that was getting copied, so the backup deleted them to make your backup library match your main one.
To switch libraries, hold down the Option key as you launch iPhoto. Select "Choose Library" and navigate to the location of the iPhoto Library that you want to open. You may have done this to check that your backup library was functional and then forgotten to switch back to your main library. Since iPhoto will open the most recently used library by default, you have to Option-launch and select your main library before iPhoto knows to use that one. Once you have selected the correct library, iPhoto will continue to open that one until you change it.
To check the location of the library you are using, Right-click (Control-click) a photo in your library and select "Show File" from the contextual menu. A Finder window will open with the file selected, and you can navigate up from there to see where the iPhoto Library is stored. That way, you can be certain that you are opening your main library and storing new imports to the correct location.
If you haven't used the camera card since erasing it, you can see if [MediaRecover|http://www.mediarecover.com> is able to save your photos. I haven't tried it myself, but I have seen many users here report success with it.
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