Mysterious missing project.

This never happened in 5 years of using FCP7 and I am sure I have done nothing wrong. I opened a library from Sept 2014 and went to an event to open a project which I know I edited because I exported t to disc as a Pro Res file. Anyway the project has completely vanished into thin air. All the other projects in that library are all intact. Is there anyway of searching for a "lost" or has anyone got any idea where it could have gone project?
Thanks for any advice or theories?

The mystery now deepens. I have a new library with 10 or so events, each one represents a Part1 and a Part 2 of a show. I have just looked at a show (Pt 1 &2 events) and found the project blank for Part 1 and no clips showing and Part 2 project is perfect with all the clips in the project, BUT NO CLIPS showing in the box underneath, but they all exist in the time line. All the other events in the library are perfect. I just edited the missing one 2 days ago. Luckily I always export the master immediately after I have edited it. I cannot see what I am doing wrong, since surely the problem would repeat itself, but it seems so random.

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Hi Tony, thanks for the welcome.
I've searched and I still have only the one library. The library is about 120GB so it would be hard to create without noticing.
Luckily I did find the project on my backup, so I didn't lose it completely. It was an accident that I discovered that it was missing at all. The photos were taken less than a month ago, and my backup was from mid-September. So my issue is trying to figure out how it could have disappeared at all, because I certainly don't want it to happen again.
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Evans Brasfield wrote:
Anyone recovered from a similar issue?
Yes, I have inadvertently discovered I have the same problem with TIFFs I created by scanning in some very old photographs as TIFFs three years ago. I did extensive work on the old photos to restore their quality. Three years ago, everything seemed to work fine including printing the TIFFs. I just discovered Aperture 2.1.4 and Aperture 3 can't find the managed masters even though I verified they are in the libraries!
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No luck on the smart album, I tried it and it reports no missing images:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/24218107220895a27c5fo.png
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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2107/242099628501416543c1o.png
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