Lost audio files

I have saved a song into another hard drive and hit save while I was working.Now when I open the project all the audio files are blank but the MIDI ones are there. I hit get info and the audio files were listed but I can't find them.
Anyone have any idea where they might be hiding? I have checked all the places I know. I am not a real technical person so have mercy!
Thank you,
cffink

So you have already used Spotlight to search for them? In the Bin, is there an exclamation mark behind those "lost files"? Have you checked the Folder in which the Project is saved? Did you save the project with option "Include Assets" on?

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
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Mac OS X version 10.6.8
GarageBand 08-Version 4.1.2 ·(248.7)
This is a issue which goes back to 2005 on some forums, and in my case, has just occured. There seems to be thousands of people effected. After 3 years of using GarageBand for language studies, I'm now afraid to open any file with this software. Some 3 years work potentially lost.
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When I try to open a file, which up to recently functioned perfectly, I get a message "Audio File Not Found...Skip or Search". Regardless of which option I chose, a file opens but with no audio content.
Below are extracts from some of the solutions I've come accross on Forums.None have worked for me, despite some promising suggestions.
For instance I don't have "Working Copies" file on my computer.
Any comments from Apple would be appreciated.
Extracts from some previous Contributions
1. Quit GarageBand.
2. Goto /Users/<your username>/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Working Copies
3. Delete the Guitar Lesson 2_Chords - G, C
4. Start GarageBand up and enjoy Lesson 2.
If i had to guess i would say it looks like there is a cache created when you start a lesson and it must be easily corrupted.
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You went to the Library file path that is in your user folder. You must go to Macintosh HD and go to the main Library folder and follow the path Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Garageband/Learn to Play. Then you can delete the lessons you don't want.
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Christoph Drösser
Re: garageband saying "audio file not found"
Apr 29, 2012 11:59 PM (in response to cole91)
Hm. Saving the project might have actually killed your recording. The only way to get back to your audio clips is: locate your project in the finder, ctrl-click it, select "Show Package Content", and look into the Media folder. If the folder is empty, I'm afraid the recordings are gone for good.

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there is something completely wrong. You should see the following options:
Does your song project show with the Guitar icon and the filename extension "band"?
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Right in the middle of an edit the sound dropped out completely. Well no big deal, this happens sometimes in PP. I restarted the App but it was still the same. On all my sequences what's even more odd is that all the waveforms were gone but the original files were still being referenced and the audio would play fine in the source monitor just not the timeline. I then opened an autosave to find that the waveforms returned but still no audio on the timeline (no audio meters either). If I match framed a clip then performed an insert edit the sound for that clip would play again. Sounds like a fix. Wrong if I close the project and reopen then those files that are new on the timeline are muted also. Somehow every sequence is this way? Even in the autosaves?
TROUBLESHOOTING:
I've tried changing my audio hardware to 4 different sources.
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Can someone please give me insight into what's going on. BTW no tracks are muted manually this happened right in the middle of an edit and somehow effects all autosaved versions of this project. Any help is much appreciated since there is no way I can redo this in another edit package with the time I have left.
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Canon 5d Mk2 Clips
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NI Audio Kontrol Sound Card
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Hi Reuben,
Thanx for starting this thread and giving this major problem a serious consideration. And thanx to Kevin for coming up with a solution.
Last week we here in Copenhagen had exact same problem on two out of our three different editing rooms - all with different specs. (All running Premiere 7.2.1 on OS X 10.8.5 and 10.9.2 has the sound problem but OS X 10.7.5 hasn't) No updates has been done while working on the projects.
We also use Plural Eyes and solved it first with a lot of match framing, but it became worse and worse so we are very happy with the suggested workaround via AfterEffects.
It takes 5-10 minutes to do the workaround - But the audio keyframes is gone from the timeline.
The keyframes are intact under the volume Level bar in the effects control panel so that is fine.
But what is not so good, is that I lost all the audio effects like compressor and limiter, so I will have to make the soundmix again if the client has any changes.
My theory is that the whole project becomes twisted over time when more and more sequences is created and more and more renders are done. Don't no why. Just guessing that the number of renderfiles is causing the confussion.
Because my first sequence which I didn't touch for weeks now also lost the link to the audio files.
I tried to make all sound offline and reconnect - didn't help. I also tried to delete the Media Cache files - didn't help.
I doubt that Plural Eyes is the cause of problems, because the music files that I use is also missing waveforms now and hence also no sound there.
Luckily I exported a final sound mix but I have to import the final sound mix again each time the project has been closed and started again.
I now vaguely remembers that I tried to do some sound adjustments on one clip in Adobe Audition and the problems with missing sound began after that.
Hmm - not sure. How about you Reuben? Do you use Audition?
And I didn't quite understand - do you now use Plural Eyes in After Affects or do you make the import and export workaround with After Effects after you synced the audio in Premiere?
Does Adobe have any idea on when this bug is fixed? Are we talking weeks or months?
Kind Regards
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