Garageband - audiofiles not found

Hello everyone,
I relaunch an issue because I have not found an answer in former discussions.
Garageband displays an error message when I open a project - several aif audio files were not found.
I ask show the package contents of my project (User> Music> Garageband) and coincidentally, my files not found where there, but they have a .lbm extension instead of the .aif and weigh only 1 KB.
I made a bad manipulation? Is there a solution?

Garageband displays an error message when I open a project - several aif audio files were not found.
I ask show the package contents of my project (User> Music> Garageband) and coincidentally, my files not found where there, but they have a .lbm extension instead of the .aif and weigh only 1 KB.
The .lbm files are no audio files. You cannot restore the audio of your tracks from them. What happened, before this problem first occurred? Did you run any cleaning programs to remove duplicate files or similar? Or did garageBAnd crash, before it could save the project and write the recordings to the disk?
Do you have a backup of your project from before the audio files went missing? Then try to restore the project from your backup.

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