Need to fix a big mistake

Hi, everyone. I was wondering if anyone could help me with something. I accidentally replaced a folder with its alias and now of course I can't get anything that was in it because "original cannot be found." Please tell me there is some trick for fixing this. I haven't restarted or logged out since it happened. I can't believe I did this; I'm freaking out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

If you had a burn folder on your desktop and tried to burn it to a DVD, but the disk was bad, the original folder should still be in its place. Burn folders always contain an alias, not the original. If you drag items to a mounted blank disk it is only aliases that are put "on" the disk, not the originals. The usual problem people have is if they open the alias and then toss something so things will "fit" on the disk, without realizing that if you open the alias you then are looking at the original files and what you toss will indeed remove the original. So where were your backup files to start with? They should still be there. They never were "on" the DVD, if they were in a folder called "Backup" that was somewhere in your home folder, that Backup folder should still be there.
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