Moved edited files

PLEASE HELP!! I use Lightroom 4 and when I 'moved' photos from my laptop to my external hard drive all was well until a few days later. I went to export some to a cd and they all had a little exclamation point on them. When I clicked on the exclamation it says "the metadata was changed by Lightroom and another application" and I could "import settings from the disk or overwrite the disk settings." When I clicked import settings from disk it reverted back to my original edit. But thats not all.. when I go back into Lightroom to look at my photos they do something different.. now they start to revert back to the original UNEDITED files all my themselves, one by one as they 'load'. The edits look like they are there until they 'load' then they go back to unedited.
What do I do!? If I ever want to go back to an edited photo and export it at a different size or retouch it, export it or something, none of the edits are saved,do I have to start from scratch! Im looking at 750 pictures. Does anyone know why this is happening or what I can do? I want my edited photos back and the school needs them for the school year book in a few days. Im desperate for help. Thank you!!

See these instructions: Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders

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The second reason for this post is that I'd like to know how to make sure that the adjustments made in Lightroom are stored on the external hd as well, incase anything happens to the laptop?
Is exporting the catalogue what I need to do?
Or can I back up the Lightroom adjustments to my external hd somehow?
OR when I moved the raw files did this information move with them?
I understand that my raw files are the original unaltered files & that the changes made in Lightroom are recorded seperately & applied in Lightroom itself..... Well, that's what I think I know about how it all works after a few months of using it, so please forgive me if I'm missing something & I'll be very happy to be enlightened if you'd be so kind
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The backup is just a regular copy of the catalog, and you can simply launch Lightroom from that, by double-clicking it.
The image files themselves should also be backed up of course, but that's outside Lightroom.

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f i want to move my master and version files from one project to another (and the corresponding master files too), i should first move the master files using File> Relocate master and then drag-drop the versions from within Aperture. (I usually maintain similar names for my HDD folders and corresponding projects in Aperture, hence if i move the master, then it makes sense to move the versions too).
Now you're bringing in moving images in Aperture from one project to another. What you are saying is correct but bear in mind:
The library structure inside Aperture is totally independent of the file structure you use to store referenced masters on the HD outside of Aperture.
Now It is possible to have one mimic the other as you seem to be doing but for all intents and purposes Aperture doesn't care at all how the external file structure appears as long as Aperture knows were the masters are.
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Remove "MacKeeper" as follows.
"MacKeeper" has only one useful feature: it deletes itself.
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