FCP X crashed, now all my projects are gone.

So I was working on a project and FCP X crashed (as it usually does).
When I reopened it, many of the clips I had on the timeline were blacked out, with a red line on the bottom half of the clip.
Same for my audio files.
It won't let me reveal them in the finder, says they can't be revealed.
It won't let me relink them.
FCP deleted all of my project files that were stored on my computer hard drive and now when I click on different events in that viewer, nothing happens. I can click on whatever event, but it won't show the subsequent files to the right.
Does anyone have any idea what could have possibly gone wrong or how to help?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Heya Christian,
This happened to someone else the other day. The solution was to open the package contents of corrupted library.fcpbundle file from Finder, copy original media to a location outside of the library bundle, then open the latest backup file of the project in FCPX 10.1 and relink the media from the new location you just copied all the media to.
https://twitter.com/LexrunNOS/status/419592770735456256
Hope that helps!
Jasper Thayer
Apple Certified Trainer
https://FinalCutProX.net

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