My library simple has gone

Question

There was a time when I used to reference masters.
There was a day Aperture Guru's convinced me to let Aperture manage my images.
There was a time I had thousand of images.
One hour ago, I was working with Aperture, made an undo, and Aperture told me that there was a inconsistent data in my library. "You have to relaunch Aperture and rebuild the library".
Then, all my library has gone.
Yes, I had plenty of space to work on my hard drive, since Aperture decided to free up the space filed with my images.
What to do now?
I am restoring a Vault (From two days ago). So I lost just two days of work, but tomorrow, I have to deliver some work, with images that, of course, I don't have anymore, but a few I exported to photoshop.
Then:
Maybe try Lightroom.
Maybe will back to iView Media Pro (AKA Microsoft expression) and Photoshop combo, as before.
I suspect I'll can't rely anymore in "Let me manage your media" applications anymore.
If a 2.1 version is not mature enough for a basic task like avoiding deleting content by mistake, why should I trust all of my adjustments and metadata.
This is the first time, in a long, long time using Apple, that I consider myself betrayed by my Mac.
Even more. I can't remember an Issue like this on my PC times. Even with viruses involved.
I know it is my responsibility to do backups. I do it. But I can't do 34GB backups diary. (don't have enough space, and disks for keeping several copies).
Should I trust Apertures Vaults (Faults) Time Machine Backups if Apple keep track of files like within Aperture?
Sorry people at Apple. I really consider this a black hole in my Mac history.

Answer 1

I really appreciate your suggest, but in this case, it is better to retake the shots than trying to rescue things with no guarantees.
I have to take the shortest path to deliver my work.
Maybe trying to rescue data may work with some files, but not in this case, almost an entirely library with a lot of sidecar files.
I know there is no better workaround now than retaking the shots. But just imagine you lost some pictures you are not looking at now. So, three months later, you discover that there disappeared and your backups doesn't contain the files, because they disappeared long time ago without noticing that. That's the main point of my post. (maybe I need an analyst for my head instead posting).