Can't find missing files

When I want to edit, it starts looking for missing files. Then I can't edit. I reconnect and it keeps searching. Now there is nothing it can do until it finds those files. Where did they go? I can I just move on and continue editing photos?

Mike - please reply to the post rather than message me direct. Others on here are far more qualified than I.
if it is saying all your photos are now missing then I would guess you have changed a folder/subfolder above where they are stored. So if you have the photos all in ...\Pictures\Mike\Adobe and then at some point you changed the Mike folder to be called Flano then all the links will break. If this is what may have happened rename the folder back to what it was and all the links should be OK again. I would still recommend trying to find at least 1 of the missing photos using a search in My Computer just to ensure they are still there somewhere.

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if it is saying all your photos are now missing then I would guess you have changed a folder/subfolder above where they are stored. So if you have the photos all in ...\Pictures\Mike\Adobe and then at some point you changed the Mike folder to be called Flano then all the links will break. If this is what may have happened rename the folder back to what it was and all the links should be OK again. I would still recommend trying to find at least 1 of the missing photos using a search in My Computer just to ensure they are still there somewhere.

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