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alias could not be opened because original item cannot be found

I bought a macbook pro in July.

I get the message in the title whenever I try to open files shown in finder's 'All my Files', these files have all previously been sent to trash and removed.

They all have blank icons.

I was hoping somebody could offer a solution. I'd like to go to a mac store, but some of these files were...of a private nature so it might be a bit embarrassing.
Can you not just delete it? See here, scroll to near bottom:
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/working-with-aliases-in-mac-os-x.html
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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I tried that many times and it couldn't be dragged.

I eventually found a solution though!

Disk Utility->Verify Disk Permissions->Repair Disk Permissions, if anybody's having the same issue.

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