Why do my photos keep disappearing

Okay I am now on my second Macbook air, and for a second time my photos just start disapearing. No not allat once but every once in a while I go bakc and check events and sure enough some of them have now disappeard. When I say disappeard I men the thumbnail is still there down at the bottom, but when I scroll through the event a big black screeen with a excvlamation point in a silver triangel appears. Yes I have been backing up but when I bring back my old library from months ago same deal.
This has never happened on my wifes Mac dek top or our previous HP Desk top, so nit sure what to think, two laptops same thing.

This indicates a disconnect between the Thumbnail and the original
this can be caused by two things
1 - User action deleting items from inside the iPhoto library - can be directly - can be from the All images list (never delete from there) - can be from running cleanup software like MacKeeer, CleanMac2 or other dangerous, defective software that improperly deletes or changes things in the iPhoto library - if you have done any of these things you must restore your backup from before you did them and damaged your iPhoto library - and I recommend getting rid of any "clean up software" ASAP (although being essentially MalWear it is not easy)
2 - corruption of the iPhoto library - If it is not #1 then Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild your database
LN

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