Folders missing of imported photos

Hello,
I have imported a shoot of about 3300 raw images in several folders directories. One of the folders is missing. It is on the hard drive and contains images. I try synchronizing the parent folder and it indicates images need to be imported. While trying to import the images get grey out and then nothing gets imported. The images appear no where else in LR. Earlier I did have a drive failure, I replaced the drive with a back with identical folder and directed LR to it. All good with exception of folder.

I did the procedure you suggested and did locate one of the files, but then I wasn't sure how to use that info to get the folder to show up (that was before JimHess suggestion to right-click and Go to Folder in Library). So I closed LR and let it run through the optimization process as it backed up, and when it was done, by chance I found one of the missing folders. Somehow it had moved to the root directory instead of the master folder it had been in, and so did another folder. I needed to export my work files for the client before anything else, and I'm about to try and move them back to the master folder. (The "master folder" as I am referring to it, is simply a folder on the root, that is an umbrella for all the sub-folders I create every week for an ongoing project - one sub-folder per week). Any idea why the sub-folders would move? Would upgrading to v3.6 help with any of this, or with anything?
BTW, the folders did not move in Windows Explorer, they're still under the Master folder there. They only moved in LR.
Thanks
Andy

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