Help! Lightroom has lost all the photos

Using Lightroom 3 on OS x 10.6.8. A 12000 + photos in Lightroom. This is what happened:

I tried to export a picture using export with preset > burn size JPEG.

The program froze, with the beach of rotation ball.

I did a Force Quit, then tried to re - open LR. Received the following message:

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I had option but to choose a different catalog. Rebuilt, it opened with an old photograph inside.

When I try to open a catalog I get the following screen, but none of the catalogs connects to the database:

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A search shows that all the photos are still in the users folders > pictures > Lightroom then in different folders and collections.

How to get or create a catalog to post a link to the photos on my hard drive?  So far it seems no harm done, but the photos are inaccessible.

Geoffrey Luck wrote:

Increasingly more complicated! Add. OLD as suggested did not LR to open the catalog with pictures. Instead, he opened with a single picture, exactly what happened when I first got the accident and responded to a command prompt to open a different catalog. It seems LR keeps pointing to this 'new' catalogue, but why he has a picture in it, I can't explain.

You must manually select the Lightroom 3 original catalog file:

Menu item: file > open catalog

Navigate to this folder and select the file to Lightroom Catalog.lrcat 3 .

Geoffrey Luck wrote:

As to the "edited copies", I checked some of these pictures in sub LR files that were last imported and worked on and found they were modified versions. I had been scanning negatives b & w 60 years of age, and from LR to PES 9 to repair, so I am sure that I look at the modified pictures. I knew that LR edition is non-destructive, but I don't know where the originals were stored.

When you use 'Edit in PS' with 'apply changes to Lightroom"a new file is created with changes in LR & PS. That's what you see. The original files are always in the same place... not shake... not deleted... no written.

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