Pictures Randomly Vanish from Lightroom on my iMAC

I’m moving pictures from my old HP LIGHTROOM to my new iMAC LIGHTROOM and have discovered that my pictures tend of vanish from both, so that I’m left completely  unsure if any picture I move to or import into LIGHTROOM on my
iMAC will be there permanently. I’ve experienced this software instability in LIGHTROOM on my PC and was hoping if I moved to the iMAC the problem would
be resolved, but I see it is an inherent  and significant bug in the LIGHTROOM software. I’ve had the entire contents of the catalogs on both my PC and iMAC disappear requiring me to re-import the pictures (resulting in even random duplications} and to reenter and re-annotate metadata for thousands of pictures.  I have searched in vain for any satisfactory explanation, most of all from Adobe, what might be going on here and how to prevent or alleviate the problem. I welcome any suggestions or advice on this frustrating and highly irritating feature of LIGHTROOM.

There was no prompt to relink anything.  What happened in the most recent
"disappearance"  was I imported some additional photos (959 pictures) and
suddenly that was all that was in Lightroom.  All other 31K photos had
disappeared -- no thumbnails, no folders, nothing.  The originals are stored
on the IMac.  And all the work that had been done (in LR)  on them was gone.
When I tried to reload them into Lightroom the 959 photos disappeared AND I
got some 62 k photos duplicates of every single picture even though the
avoid duplication box was checked.

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