FCP Deleted Video Files

At least this is my best guess. I had cut together a one minute teaser this weekend. This morning, I decided I wanted to create a title in Livetype so I exported the video For Livetype. The first export went through fine, but I forgot to take out the existing title. So I deleted the title and exported the video again. I tried importing it into Livetype but it said the .mov files that were in the video didn't exist. So I look now and all the clips I had in the teaser are now gone. The clips I didn't use in the video but still have in my browser are all ok. I have no idea what happened and would like to know so it doesn't happen again. I'm pretty sure I have the clips backed up, but I don't want my computer to start deleting files.
If it makes a difference, all the files are on a 1TB Western Digital MyBook for Mac external HDD.

I am doing a file recovery right now and it looks like it's picked up a few video files that have been deleted. I just hope they are the ones that vanished.< </div>
Do not get your hopes up. There are usually some unrecoverable bit in media files. Another thing we've never had satisfactorily explained but the files are missing something subtle. You will likely get an unknown file type or cannot open the selected app error.
Before you go completely nuts, try deleting whatever extension the recovered files have and thn writing a new .mov extension to the filename or, if they were captured or exported from FCP, try adding that weird .fcp extension.
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