My changes to an external hard drive's files and folders vanished.

Something crazy happened with a Mac-formatted external hard drive I've been working with. Today, out of nowhere, it reverted to a state where tons of organizational work I have done on the folder contents vanished. Files I deleted were restored, files I renamed were back to their old names, and an entire folder of stuff I rendered is missing. This work dates back for weeks. However, photo keywords that I added yesterday are still there. The only thing I can think of is that something weird happened with Time Machine. I briefly connected the hard drive to an iMac yesterday, and loaded up time machine to look at the backups. However, the problem hard drive is not the one that Time Machine backs up to, and I definitely didn't restore any previous backups. I have no idea how this happened.

Where is your Library? On the iMac? On the External? What version of iPhoto do you have?
Regards
TD

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