After Effects weird error during render

I made a composition that involved Trapcode Sound Keys and Trapcode Particular in order to make particles move with the frequencies of a song. Upon completion of the composition I added it to the render queue. About 75% into the render I recieved this error "After Effects error: internal verification failure, sorry! {could not find itemframe we just now checked in} . Does ANYBODY have any idea what this error even means and why it even appeared in the first place and is there even a fix for this? Any help would be very much appreciated.

Check-in/check-out errors refer to footage retrieval errors, which could be quite possible, if you use custom particles. Could be anything from damaged source footage to something with your pre-comp not being right to simply not enough memory. Impossible to tell, since you did not provide any detailed info. we do not even know which version of AE you are using...
Mylenium

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