HELP! Cant find recent files

Hi there, 

I recently have had all of my files coming up as soon as i opened premiere pro on the homepage under recents. As far as i was aware they were all actually located on my hardrive, last night i saved my project quitted premiere and used my laptoip away from the hardrive and now when i plug it back in the only recent files its showing is one that i edited without a hardrive. I cant find the Files of the video anywhere and i was working on it only yesterday its still not shwoing up anywhere even when i look through the hardrive on finder. It couldnt have just disappeared?? please help working on a huge project for a client and i cant find the files with months of my work anywhere! 😞