Geotagged a folder of ~200 photos then accidentally deleted folder. How to recover geotagging data?

Question

I had a folder of around 200 photos that I imported into Lightroom (Version 3.6) and manually geotagged using Lightroom with Jeffrey Friedl's Geoencoding Support Plug-in.  This took several hours of work in Google Maps, determining where each photo was taken then individually labeling each photo with the exact GPS coordinates in Lightroom, so it was pretty annoying when I realized that I accidentally deleted that folder earlier this week in an attempt to free up some space on an external hard drive.
I *do* have two back-ups of the same photos that were in that folder, however -- one on another external hard drive and one on a laptop -- but the photos in those folders are untagged and don't have any of the geotagging data that I manually applied to the ones in the other (now deleted) folder in Lightroom.
When I go into Lightroom now and look at Previous Import it shows thumbnails of all the deleted images along with the text "The file named (imagename.jpg) is offline or missing."  However, in the Metadata panel on the right under "Geoencoding" I can still see the GPS coordinates I applied to each of the photos.  I could individually write down each of those sets of coordinates along with the numbers of the images they belonged to and then manually type in all those coordinates for the 200+ photos in the folder with the untagged photos but it seems like there has to be an easier, faster way to do this.  Is there?
Let me reiterate what I'm asking.  I have 200 photos in Folder A on one external hard drive and the same exact 200 photos in Folder B on another external hard drive.  I manually geotagged all of the photos in Folder A using Lightroom but then accidentally deleted Folder A.  I still have all the same photos in Folder B but without the geotagging data.  I can still view the geotagging data of the pictures that were in the now-deleted Folder A in Lightroom.  Is there any way to transfer that data to the same pictures in Folder B, using Lightroom or any other program?
Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks!

Answer 1

Outside LR, just copy Folder B back to the same place as Folder A was, and make sure it has the same name as Folder A. That's it. You haven't lost the metadata, including the geotagging info....that's all still in the catalog. But because you've deleted the folder outside Lightroom, you get the "File is offline or missing" messages (in fact if you look in the Folders Panel you should see Folder A listed also with a '?' mark).....so just putting the folder back in place should fix the issue.