The catalog could not be opened due to an unexpected error.

Help -
I make a new catalog for each photo project
now I cannot open one of my most important ones (last time opened July 4th, last backup July 4th)
This would be tragic as there are 2000 photos already edited in it.
Can you help?
I already tried to open a new one. Worked
I already tried to open other ones. Worked
I read to reinstall lightroom 4 --- didnt do this as I am worried about loosing more files.
Please help, urgent!
Thank you

THG_Bo
Thank you for this suggestion:
It sais that catalog can be probably repaired in the future but I need to close all other programs and check my harddrive, which I did. But it still keeps giving me the same message.

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