Nested comp help

Hi -
I'm working on a timeline with a small nested comp, a color layer beneath it and a text layer as well. They all worked together nicely when I first laid them down but after exporting the sequence the whole little section has gone invisible. And now that I'm back editing it, it isn't visible at all in my monitor. The track items are there, but they don't do anything. And yes, I have my track visibility button turned on.
Any thoughts?

Yes, it's all good there. I was able to make the sequence work again by deleting the component clips and replacing them with their sources from my bins, but it's very odd that they just wouldn't work at all. Hoping that when I export this one out the same thing doesn't happen again, as it had looked fine in preview before.

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s
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altenbach wrote:
Dravi99 wrote:
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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