Large Catalog with missing files

I have a very large catalog (over 30k files) in PSE 8. I just purchased PSE 10 and will be upgrading it. As I was making a full backup prior to the upgrade, I realized there are many missing files (requiring reconnecting). Some PRE files that I purposefully dieted, others are TBD.
Since my catalog is so large and there seem to be a few hundred missing, it makes sense to only view the missing files so i can delete those that need to be deleted ,etc. I thought there was a way to view only files that were missing (that need to be reconnected) but I am unable to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated in finding a way to just display the missing files.
Thanks in advance,
Daniel

When you click reconnect as soon as Organizer finds the first missing file you get the option to reconnect manually.
Click the browse button and when the dialog open you will get a full list of missing files in the left hand pane. The top one is usually highlighted and you can scroll to the bottom of the list and shift click to select them all and delete them from the catalog. Nothing is deleted from disk.

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