Lightroom was unable to prepare the selected file at (file path to image) for editing. it wil

I have been using lightroom since Beta and this is the first issue that I can't seem to fix.
I was working on some files editing in external editors - PS5 & Niksoftware I had worked on 4 or 5 images no problems, working awesome as normal. Then I decided to get rid of one of the files - an edited image - when it asked to remove from lightroom or from disk, I clicked, remove from disk. I never do that but trying to be better with space. Then tried to edit a different image and the error "Lightroom was unable to prepare the selected file at (NEF - the proper location) for editing. it will not be opened." comes up.
I looked on line and one answer was to delete the preference file and then restart, which also meant reloading the catalogue. All of which worked no problem but the error still is coming up. I have restarted lightroom and the computer a couple of times, in different sequences
I have lightroom 5.3 64 bit on windows 7, as I said all working perfectly until deleting one file.
Anybody have any ideas for me?

I had this error message, too. Turned out it was due to my use of subst to create a virtual drive letter for my photo library. See Lightroom 3.2 - Using subst to a local drive fails for the solution! (even with LR 5.5, still)

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namespace EmployeeService
public class Employee
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private string _Name;
private string _Gender;
private DateTime _DateofBirth;
public int Id
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<add name="ServiceModelTraceListener">
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name="ServiceModelMessageLoggingListener" traceOutputOptions="Timestamp">
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Things i have tried till now are
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2)Opened the Message Log Trace. Got the error as follows
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<HttpResponse xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2004/06/ServiceModel/Management/MessageTrace">
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<StatusDescription>Internal Server Error</StatusDescription>
<WebHeaders>
<Content-Length>730</Content-Length>
<Cache-Control>private</Cache-Control>
<Content-Type>text/xml; charset=utf-8</Content-Type>
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<Server>Microsoft-IIS/7.5</Server>
<X-AspNet-Version>4.0.30319</X-AspNet-Version>
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<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Header></s:Header>
<s:Body>
<s:Fault>
<faultcode xmlns:a="http://schemas.microsoft.com/net/2005/12/windowscommunicationfoundation/dispatcher" xmlns="">a:InternalServiceFault</faultcode>
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