Collections disappear

Recently, I spent spent a lot of time to import pictures into folders carefully and that went well.  Then, I made a Collection of some old vacation photos.  A few days later, the Collection shows 0 photos, and I couldn't understand why.  I thought I would just more careful the next time I did a Collection.

Then I did another Collection of the most recent vacation, worked hours on their modification and converted the dragging exactly where I wanted them in the Collection.  I was ready to export it so that I could make a sideshow in Premiere Elements.  I opened the export dialog box to export, changed my mind and cancelled, then returned in the folder (not the Collection) to see once more.  When I returned to the Collection, he showed 0 photos.  I watched this part more, I realized all my modified photos seem to be completely missing from Lightroom.  Only the photos I had deleted from the Collection is still remained.  Worse that that, they seemed to be removed from my external hard drive.  Of course, I deleted them, but I certainly did not and do not remember to delete anything.

I had saved the photos in one other place is not a disaster.  But I need to figure out what I'm doing wrong, as has happened twice. If I do a Collection and add a few photos and later the Collection has no pictures, what am I doing wrong? Is it so easy to accidentally delete photos you don't realize that you do?  I have restored my original photos, but all my changes disappeared.  I love this software, but this seems to be a big problem.

Thanks for any advice on this.  I read the other posts missing from Collections, but these situations seem a little different.

It looks like create you a new catalog of a collection:

Go to the file menu > open recent element and see if you can select your original catalog.

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