Issue with missing links dialogue box

When I open up an InDesign document that I've been working on recently several times a dialogue box has opened up asking to update missing links - all the links to image files are on an external drive connected to my Mac and none of them have been updated or altered in anyway or moved, all the links are correct and in place when the document was saved yesterday evening on my Mac's desktop so has anyone any idea why this message comes up? It doesn't happen every day but has happened quite a number of days, the list of links that need updating varies as well from as low as say 9 up to 248 which is nearly all the images in the document and it's a bit of a pain having to go through the document turning clipping paths off then back on so the images display correctly again!
Whilst other people can and do access the external drive to access the image for their own documents they haven't changed or altered the images so there's no reason for them to show up as missing in InDesign, the external isn't turned off at night or during the day or unmounted at all either. The file was originally a Quark file converted into an InDesign one via Markzware's software, that apart I can't think of any reason why this message appears often? Anyone any ideas about it?
TIA

anyone got any other ideas about why some of the picture links are being listed as modified? It's an exceptionally annoying quirk, for the last 7 days the links on a 40 page catalogue the links were all fine, this morning however on opening the document it listed over 100 of the images as modified when nothing has been done to them.
When I actually update the picture links in the links palette, in the details panel for the picture the modification date does not change after updating the links, it's the date that it was placed that does change - not sure if this will be of any help in trying to solve whatever's causing this issue, as mentioned above it's exceptionally irritating that it happens and is something that's putting other people off using InDesign over Quark as Quark doesn't seem to suffer this problem, and it would be worse if it happened on some of the other catalogues we do as they're 80 - 100 pages in size!

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