My Compound Clips won't link to the event files

Hi all,
In desperate need of assistance. FCPX has given me nothing but trouble since day 1. Recently i've had alot of trouble with my compund clips unlinking themselves from the sorce material in the same events folder. i have exhusted every avenue of trying to fix it but nothing seems to work. i've tryed re-linking and nothing seems to happen. my entire timeline is made up of compound clips so all of my project media is offline because the event compound clips are missing.
i dont understand why this is happening when the source material i made the compound clips from are sitting right there in the same event keyword collection.
i tried updateing the software to the latest FCPX but this made things worse, all the compound clips i had made in the previous version of final cut were gone. which is a bad thing becasue my entire project is made up of compound clips. so i went back to the older version and they were there luckally.
please someone give me a hand this is a very important project and i'm at the end of my teather.
the picture below is my folder stucture along with the event media withing them. as you can see the source material is there but the compund clips cannot detect they're there.

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:
I don't know what may have happened, but I can hear someone saying: "compounds are evil!".
LOL! The K in my name stands for compounds are evil
and sorry, james, we're joking while you're desperate..!
Just some 'insider' joke, 'cause I'm noticing, being a beginner myself, that compounds are mostly abused as 'track replacements'.
So, from a more serious point of view: Why compounds/what are the compounds are made of? What happens when you double-click it?

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