Can I get back the original filename even though the file is missing

I imported 900 RAW images from my desktop into Lightroom, edited them, renamed the filename, and exported them into JPGs. Since I no longer needed the RAW images on my desktop I moved them over to an external hard drive. So now the images are still visible in my Lightroom catalog, but there is no photo to back it up since I moved the original files to the external hard drive. After realizing that I exported the images at 150 dpi instead of 300 dpi I need to re-export the images from lightroon at the proper resolution. But since I moved the originals to the external hard drive there is no photo to back it up in lightroom anymore. So I went to locate the files by clicking on the  "?"  but since I renamed the file when I exported them, the original filename on the external hard drive is now different from the filename in the catalog. Is the only solution to locate the file one by one?  Is there any way I can do them all at once even though the original filename is different from the filename in my lightoom catalog? The original filename is still listed in the metadata, but since the originals are missing it can't change it back.  Please help!

It sounds as though you moved the files and renamed them outside of Lightroom.  Not a good idea.  I'm not really going to answer the question about retrieving the files.  But if your only concern is the resolution then I wouldn't concern myself about changing the images.  That resolution setting really has no impact or effect of any kind on your images.  It doesn't change the size, or the quality at all.  If you have an image that is 2000x3000 pixels (for instance) it will be that same size regardless of what the resolution setting is.  The only real value that setting has is to give another user an indication of the intent for the image.  When you look at an image in Photoshop and look at the image size feature, Photoshop will tell you the dimensions of the image at that resolution, but that doesn't change anything about the image.

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