Lost half of capture scratch--help to recover?

Hello all,
Last night I was finishing my video and then I went to export to Soundtrack to begin the audio. After about 40% it said "General Error" and stopped. I tried again and same thing. So I just went and moved around the timeline to see if there was something wrong and then the spinning beachball came up. After about a few seconds, I forced quit and reopened. Upon reopening it said I had something like 25 missing files. So, I looked in my capture scratch folder (on my external hard drive) and I was in fact missing about half of my project.
Is there anything I can do to recover from this? First, is there anything I can do without capturing again? Second, how should I go about capturing again so that the files in my project still work? I would like to thank anyone who can help.

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