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It is FIle Open that I've been using. Ccleaner also cleared the recent documents list so I couldn't use that way anyway.

Ok I think I get what you're trying to say, but it's not clicking on the desktop icon that's causing the error. In explorer there is nothing to click unless I open the program that actually created the files and try to view them that way, but clicking on them through that causes the error message to show.

It's kind of hard to show in just a few screenshots considering just how many files there are that aren't visible in Explorer anymore. Not sure how I can, really.

No, they're not actually visible when I look into the folders in Explorer. But they are visible when I go to the same folder in a program that opens those files, however, they can't be opened. The program says it can't find them either due to them not existing anymore or having been moved.

Thanks. How do I fix the file link errors, then?

I ran CCleaner a few days ago and forgot to untick recent documents before. I was worried but it didn't seem like it really affected anything (the files still showed up in the same folders and I hadn't really used the laptop seriously for a month or so due to injuries). I thought "Ok, maybe it just took files from the last few weeks. No big loss.". But then when I actually tried to open the files, they didn't show up anymore. All of the custom plugins I created for my music projects and college work are gone, and everything has basically been taken away from the last YEAR. Even files that were originally older than that but had copies created in that time. I used Recuva to try and bring them back but there is still a lot that hasn't been recovered. I don't know what to do. Gigabytes of original files haven't come back that don't have backups and I can't walk to a local PC shop for any services they provide. Can anybody help a struggling musician out? Thanks in advance.