Mp3 songs are disappearing from my hard-drive.

When I purchased an iPod Touch a few years ago, I decided to use my new computer as the host for iTunes and started ripping my existing CDs into mp3 files.  I also set-up my iPod to synchronise every song in the iTunes library to it.  So, whatever is on my iPod should be in my iTunes !!
I noticed a while ago that I had some songs on my iPod, but they weren't in my iTunes library, or anywhere on the hard-disk of my computer ... weird, thought I was going crazy.
Anyhow, I just saw it happen ... I connected my iPod to synchronise the songs I just purchased and got a warning about certain songs not being copied to the iPod.  Now, the songs are on the iPod, and when I look in iTunes, they are displayed with an exclaimation mark.  I look on the hard-drive and the songs are not there, neither is the folder ... So, what happened ?!?!?
Now, I don't use a NAS or have any fancy back-up software or use Apple's iCloud and basically don't touch the hard-drive the music is on ... so, what is going on ?!?!
This is getting a bit of a worry, especially if it starts deleting songs I purchased on iTunes 10 years ago ... how will I get them back ?!?
So, anybody knows what is happening ...  Thanking you,
Alex R. Arney

Hi Lori
Adobe does not access your hard drive. The only way I can think that files would disappear is if you set up a sync from Elements 9,10, or 11 with Photoshop.com and then deleted your files from Photoshop.com and did another sync.  Revel will get files that were copied from photoshop.com during the  transition but does not delete any photos from anywhere. When you upload to Revel, it does not delete your files on your hard drive.
Pattie

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