How to re-open files stored on external drive?

I'm attempting to open a project that has been stored on an external hardrive, however although I've copied all files relative to the project along with the project file itself back to the main hardrive; when the sequence opens in the timeline it is without most of the clips & shows the universal "video is offline" message!
What am I doing wrong and what is the correct procedure?

If you follow Harm's suggestion, all should be great - unless you have chosen to Offline All, or Ignore All and then done a Save over your Project file. If you have, I'd go back to that external and copy the Project file over again, as you will want to use the semi-automatic Linking, as described by Harm. To manually re-Link all Offline Media would temp me to maybe look at the latest AutoSave version. You CAN manually re-Link the media, but that is labor intensive.
Good luck, and do follow Harm's suggestions,
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