Catalog won't let me delete old photos

I have LR 4 and for some time, I have been unable to delete old photos (old photos were from a LR2 catalog (I think). Any photos I have in LR from the past 2 years, I can delete or edit them as I see fit, but the photos that were mainly imported into LR4 do not seem to work. I can still see all of the photos, but I cant do anything with them. I assume this may be due to moving my catalogs from a laptop to an external drive. If so, how do I rebuild the catalog to include all of the photos in Lightroom?

Is there an exclamation point badge on each thumbnail that when hovered over says the photo is missing?
LR remembers where you first imported the photo from in its catalog, and if you change that—via moving the photo from one drive to another or even an external drive changing names or drive-letters, then LR won’t know where the photo is, anymore.
If the photos are missing, then you should find the highest-up folder that has missing photos and right-click Location Missing Folder on it and point that folder to the new folder location.

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