Help - File Error: 1 Unknown

I was capturing live from camera to my MBP, no tape, and my project file became unavailable. When FCP went to do an autosave, it could not find the project file (it had been moved accidentally), threw up a dialog box reporting the error and stopped recording. Now the capture file (8GB) cannot be imported into the project and cannot play in the Quicktime player.
This is important material that I would like to use, is there any way to fix the file? It obviously has material in it, it just wasn't closed properly by FCP before it threw the error about the project file being missing.
Thanks for any help!!

The file is gone -- let this be a lesson. Thanks, Apple, for creating software that freaks out when the user does something stupid. Of course, all us users should be careful and we should be spanked when we do something stupid, but it's a joy to use software that protect even us stupid users.

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